Did you ever wonder why fierce battles take place within the broadcast crowd? Does the margin in your business stack up with that of broadcasting?
Yes, the Internet is siphoning away chunks of the free TV audience according to the generally reliable Paul Kagan organization. "Advertising sales in the broadcast network upfront ad sales market fell 0.4% in Spring, the second consecutive annual decline. Despite those woes...
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Broadcast TV Profitability Still Wows
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My wife was once a TV junkie, even watching reruns to no end. Today once she tires of what is on TV she heads over to the computer and digs into the web sites of the many newspapers in the NYC metro area and its suburbs.
I've taken a couple of Internet surveys that ask my reaction to new network television programming. The majority of the shows do not hold my interest. The surveys do not ask the right questions. They ask the questions they want to hear a positive reaction to. The wording practically forces you to tell them the show is great even if you really think the show is junk. News has become entrtainment. I am sick of the NYC FOX channel bantering on about what happened tonight on American Idol. I am tired of WNBC 4 using its time as a place to advertise their observation platform on Rockefeller Center. I am tired of every news show on every station covering the same news item, at almost exactly the same time, and the same commericials on at exactly the same time. I am tired of news shows reporting the same thing for 5 days in a row on a single issue with no new information, beating it into the ground. I am tired of the 11pm news being nothing more than a rerun of of the 6 pm show. I am tired of the lack of coverage of my region, unless of course there is a horsehead found floating in some local politicians pool. Maybe at 49 I'm considered a crusty old geezer. The networks are reaping what they sow. Reality Shows don't cut it with me. Same with poorly written sitcoms. I'm happy watching the few well written and well acted shows on the air, filling in what used to be the remaining TV time with e-mail and web surfing and TIVO recordings of PBS and decent shows I missed that are now played at 3 AM in the morning.
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I've taken a couple of Internet surveys that ask my reaction to new network television programming. The majority of the shows do not hold my interest. The surveys do not ask the right questions. They ask the questions they want to hear a positive reaction to. The wording practically forces you to tell them the show is great even if you really think the show is junk. News has become entrtainment. I am sick of the NYC FOX channel bantering on about what happened tonight on American Idol. I am tired of WNBC 4 using its time as a place to advertise their observation platform on Rockefeller Center. I am tired of every news show on every station covering the same news item, at almost exactly the same time, and the same commericials on at exactly the same time. I am tired of news shows reporting the same thing for 5 days in a row on a single issue with no new information, beating it into the ground. I am tired of the 11pm news being nothing more than a rerun of of the 6 pm show. I am tired of the lack of coverage of my region, unless of course there is a horsehead found floating in some local politicians pool. Maybe at 49 I'm considered a crusty old geezer. The networks are reaping what they sow. Reality Shows don't cut it with me. Same with poorly written sitcoms. I'm happy watching the few well written and well acted shows on the air, filling in what used to be the remaining TV time with e-mail and web surfing and TIVO recordings of PBS and decent shows I missed that are now played at 3 AM in the morning.
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N2UBP