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FOX NEWS STUNS NETS
New York Post ^ | 9/04/04 | DON KAPLAN

Posted on 09/04/2004 12:04:54 AM PDT by kattracks

September 4, 2004 -- NETWORK news divisions are nursing bruises in the wake of the Republican National Convention, in which viewers found cable news more popular. It was a seismic shift in the history of convention coverage, and it sent a clear message to network news officials that in 2008, things will have to be different.

"There's no question that we stood back and said to each other, 'Whoa, what happened there,' " a network news source said yesterday.

"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin. "But there are a whole host of new technologies coming online now that we will all utilize four years from now in ways that none of us may even suspect right now."

Slavin thinks that next time, the big nets are likely to offer viewers convention coverage "significantly enhanced over what they received this year" specifically tailored to different viewers tastes.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: broadcastnetworks; foxnewsratings; oldmedia; rncconvention
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To: claudiustg
Somebody gong this guy! He's not sure what they learned, but just wait until 2008! Yeah, right!

Show a little conservative compassion for them; it can't be easy waking up from at least a thirty-year coma.

Likely scenarios include raw feeds from the floors and various levels of analysis from political experts that viewers can select themselves.

Can you imagine it? ABC, for one, might give us Bozo filters for their coverage. That'll really attract viewers, think of all that empty time. I don't suppose it would ever occur to them that maybe they ought to get rid of their Bozos and we wouldn't need the filter.....

21 posted on 09/04/2004 12:29:08 AM PDT by xJones
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To: kattracks

Having Chrissy Matthews throwing Michelle Malkin off his show did NBC no good.


22 posted on 09/04/2004 12:29:25 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: kattracks

They've underestimated their audience. Now they've screwed themselves.


23 posted on 09/04/2004 12:31:03 AM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: kattracks
"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin....."

They learned nothing from this. Their propaganda machine is not working as planned but it is not broken, it will be back!

24 posted on 09/04/2004 12:33:26 AM PDT by SpeakingUp (Kerry lied, The NYT lied, and nearly 2 Million Cambodians DIED)
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To: kattracks
FOX NEWS STUNES NETS
25 posted on 09/04/2004 12:33:31 AM PDT by dasboot (<img src="XXX">)
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To: xJones
This media clown from ABC has no clue. There is a channel with as close to a raw feed of Conventions as one can get, it's called...

C-SPAN

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26 posted on 09/04/2004 12:34:24 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
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To: kattracks

**"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention,"**

They just don't get it, do they?


27 posted on 09/04/2004 12:34:59 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: HarryCaul

Ad an instant Consumer BS button to every remote device...Results would automatically register and display on the TV crawl.


28 posted on 09/04/2004 12:36:53 AM PDT by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: kattracks
"I'm not sure what lesson we've learned from this convention," says ABC News senior vice president Paul Slavin. "But there are a whole host of new technologies coming online now that we will all utilize four years from now in ways that none of us may even suspect right now."

New technologies ain't gonna cut it, Paul. IT'S THE BIAS, STUPID!
29 posted on 09/04/2004 12:39:17 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: kattracks

You know...

The late Roone Arledge rose to fame at ABC sports for his 'patented' coverage pattern that always involved massive amounts of graphics. It's why, even to this day, soccer matches they broadcast are all but unwatchabe because you keep losing the action behind those huge supers.

Shortly after Roone took over the News operation, their broadcasts were similarly afflicted. So, it's just totally typical of their thought patterns that the first thing they'd think about was new technology as the solution.

The problem's called "content" Paul, "content". For some strange reason, Republicans didn't want to watch Peter Jennings taking cheap shots at their party and their candidate for four days. Go figure!

Gee... you suppose this might be why the gross audience numbers for their news has gone in the dumper over the last few years? No.... can't be.... gotta be the graphics.


30 posted on 09/04/2004 12:41:35 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (I'd loan him a dime to buy a clue, but he wouldn't know what to do with it.)
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To: BurbankKarl
Zell took Chrissy down a peg or three.

Amazing, how a Lib will buckle when faced with someone who won't let them screech their way through a "debate".

31 posted on 09/04/2004 12:43:15 AM PDT by kattracks (http://www.swiftvets.com/)
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To: kattracks
They *STILL* don't understand that there is NO SUBSTANCE that attracts enough Americans coming from the Communist Liberal DemocRATs' ideology...too many, but not enough. Thank the Lord....
32 posted on 09/04/2004 12:44:26 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: xJones

I want William F. Buckley Net, but he's retired now. I guess National Review on the air might be good, sort of a 24 hour coming and going thing from their offices would be nice!


But we've got Free Republic! We've got feedback! I admit I'm addicted to interactive news.


33 posted on 09/04/2004 12:45:44 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: kattracks

In spite of the fact that the FCC has never fulfilled its duty to enforce the "public trust" obligations of the networks, has never imposed much more than a mild slap on the wrist, the networks will continue to die and there is nothing they can do about it. They will die because they will never become anything other than what they have been for decades: leftist propagandists for the democratic party, implacably opposed to America's national interests and core values. American viewers, in steadily increasing numbers, are becoming tired of the networks' lies and insults to the intelligence.


34 posted on 09/04/2004 12:46:26 AM PDT by Bonaparte (and guess who sighs his lullabies, to nights that never end...)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
This media clown from ABC has no clue.

He really doesn't, he's the media equivalent of a dinosaur that doesn't understand that his era is over. He can't change, can't compete, and he's too dumb to know what happened.

35 posted on 09/04/2004 12:47:27 AM PDT by xJones
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To: kattracks

Why would a cobservative, republican or even an independant want to watch the MSM spin EVERYTHING about the GOP convention for the Rats? MSM does NOTHING but SPIN SPIN SPIN for the democrats, stop the SPIN and maybe I and other will tune back in.


36 posted on 09/04/2004 12:48:08 AM PDT by jpsb (Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
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To: kattracks
The horse is out the barn, but dont worry, the Old Media is going to get it back.

In 2008.....Well that certainly is a relief.

Be a real shame if they tried to do it any sooner. They should just take their time, bring in some young eager anchors like Walter Cronkite or Helen Thomas.

You know, really spice it up.

That would make Fox squirm.

37 posted on 09/04/2004 12:48:13 AM PDT by smoothsailing (Eagles Up !!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
90% of Journalists are liberals.

That about says it all.
38 posted on 09/04/2004 12:48:33 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: Salvation
They just don't get it, do they?

Oh, I think they get it alright, they just won't admit it.

39 posted on 09/04/2004 12:48:59 AM PDT by kattracks (http://www.swiftvets.com/)
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To: kattracks

Chrissy couldn't handle Zell's brand of Hardball. I'm sure Chrissy woke up the next morning with a 3 alarm throbbing headache from the over-the-plate knuckleball called "The Truth" hit him right betwixt his beady elitist eyes.


40 posted on 09/04/2004 12:49:43 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
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