BY THE NUMBERS

Selected entertainment stocks’ closing prices on: Aug. 25, the market’s peak; Black Monday, Oct. 19; and the shortened trading day Friday.

STOCK 8/25/87 10/19/87 10/23/87 1. CBS 197 1/2 152 1/2 159 1/4 2. ABC (Cap Cities) 429 5/8 356 336 1/2 3. NBC (General Electric) 65 5/8 41 1/2 46 5/8 4. Universal (MCA Inc.) 60 1/2 38 38 1/8 5. MGM/UA Communications 10 3/8 8 7/8 7 7/8 6. Walt Disney Co. 82 48 1/2 51 7. Warner Communications 36 1/4 19 5/8 25 1/4 8. Paramount (Gulf + Western) 91 63 3/4 64 9. Columbia (Coca-Cola Co.) 52 1/8 30 1/2 39 3/4 10. dick clark prod. inc. 4 5/8 5 1/4 5 1/2