Posted on 03/17/2012 1:42:22 PM PDT by Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri
Why isn't there a dedicated conservative news network on television that covers stories the liberal media won't cover? There's definitely a market for it, in my opinion and who cares if the progressive imams start calling for jihad.
Give CNS a try
Few advertisers want the informed, thoughtful demographic.
The dumb sluts who watch MSNBC ...etc.- now there’s an audience advertisers drool over.
It would take a 2 Billion dollar investment. That’s according to a pundit that spoke at a Western States Leadership Conference(gop) back in 2007.
I was thinking of that as well. FOX bends itself in a pretzel to avoid being “right wing.” And most of their coverage is straight news.
Let FOX can be the right leaning network that claims fair and balance, like the left-leaning networks claim no bias.
But a full-throated conservative channel would be a massive hit.
Opinion shows 24/7. No pretense of where you stand.
Because “CNN” is already taken?
BTW, the main reason FOXnews is the strongest cable
news outlet is because it is the only one even
close to being considered conservative. The rest
of them and the network outlets split the lib and
non-aligned viewership.
That’s a large hurdle, no doubt, but there’s an untapped market there.
Fox started out fairly Conservative , but they are falling fast.
Check out GBTV.
I want a network that’s bolder than fox.
I wish I had an “extra $2 billion lying around”, to do it.
“But a full-throated conservative channel would be a massive hit.”
Sure, but not with the kind of audience advertisers want.
Look how FOX has changed to attract the impulsive low-sales-resistance types. Actually CNN started out relatively conservative, but that audience wasn’t where the money was.
I don’t understand why people insist that TV is not for idiots despite overwhelming evidence that it is.
Because the news networks are based in New York City and NYC is the liberal asshole capital of the universe.
2 billion to offer advertisers a frugal thoughtful audience that only buys what it needs- at the best price and value.
Face it: conservatives have small appeal to advertisers.
It’s a niche demographic.
Plus there’d be a zombie boycott every week of an advertiser over something.
Though it might be possible to turn that to advantage- getting ‘stupid’ viewers with constant ‘shock and awe’ controversy.
“I want a network that’s bolder than fox”
I’m not fond of the idea of competing with
FOX. I would rather see FOX leaned on in order
to make it “bolder”. Can you imagine what is
going on over at MSNBC with goofball Keith
Slobbermann doing his rants on Gore’s “Current”
channel now? How long can Keith and Fast Eddy
Schultz pitch on the same mound together?
The other possibility is to take over an existing
libtard network like ABC and cram reality down
their throats.
Right.
A 'niche' that is 60% of the population.
I’m increasingly impressed with Beck.
He was the first person I heard criticize KONY 2012.
Rightly so, he seems to have good instincts.
He’s pretty much always first about the things, he brings up. Almost like Breitbart was.
I listen to Beck most mornings. I’m seriously considering subscribing to GBTV.
I certainly never watch network TV anymore.
And one can only watch so many episodes of Bear Grills.
Would very much like to see Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck work together somehow.
Perhaps even, with cooperation from FR.
The problem with previous attempts at conservative news, has been (if faith-centered FReepers will forgive me) they’ve thus far, been centered on religion.
That’s wonderful, but it’s not why people watch television Monday - Saturday. It’s not why people watch news, and it’s not what sets the dialogue.
What’s needed is a conservative network which provides exactly the same amount of subtle, plausibly deniable bias to the right, which the MSM imbues everything else with to the left.
No question there’s a market. Almost every newspaper, television station, network and radio station is controlled by and spins for the left.
People are hungry for true dissent.
America doesn’t have any.
The first real alternative, will make someone billions.
How about one channel for conservative series and mystery movies?
Maybe stories with a mother AND a father, fidelity, modesty, and Sunday church?
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