[Izzy Dunne]

What, me worry?

[dead]

Maybe they can get the communist government of Vietnam to write and produce a few more of their shows.

That "episode" got nice numbers.

[martin_fierro]

I stumbled across "This Week" on Sunday while reprogramming a new universal remote control. Hadn't watched in years.

Couldn't believe how the show's quality has fallen. Too many lispy young punk "commentators" a la Georgie Boy Snuffaluffagus.

[kellynla]

credilbility

when you shovel manure, no one wants to hang around

and like SeeBS, NYT, LAT et al; they will all go their graves in denial...

[onyx]

I love it.
Nothing quite like a deserved descent.

[Txsleuth]

YAY!!!!!!!

[Destro]

Not o kill joy the collective mood - but the result of low ratings has little to do with the conservatives striking back and Nightline or This Week - butthe fact that the ABC network's weak ratings of its lead ins. David Letterman also suffered from this at CBS - also - Disney which owns ABC is not promotingthe hsow to its affiliates - Disney wants to scrap Nightline and go for a its own late night talk show. Lastly, network ratinsg -while still far larger than cable TV are slipping all the time do to competing mediums like the internet and video games. All the networks want to get out of the news business - news broadcasts being something they had to have during regulation but no longer required.

[Onelifetogive]

ABC's "Nightline," "This Week" hit ratings lows in 2004

This is VERY suprising... I didn't realize they were still doing these shows.......

[Destro]

Typo Corrected version:

Not o kill joy the collective mood - but the result of low ratings has little to do with the conservatives striking back and Nightline or This Week - butthe fact that the ABC network's weak ratings of its lead ins. David Letterman also suffered from this at CBS - also - Disney which owns ABC is not promoting the shows to its affiliates - Disney wants to scrap Nightline and go for a its own late night talk show. Lastly, network ratings -while still far larger than cable TV are slipping all the time due to competing mediums like the Internet and video games. All the networks want to get out of the news business - news broadcasts being something they had to have during regulation but no longer required.

[Clemenza]

Say goodnight Ted!

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[newzjunkey]

Forest Sawyer was better than Ted Koppel when he was a fill-in. Ted is smug, dreary, dull...

I haven't been able to watch This Week since George took over. I object to his use on moral grounds. He's a Clinton crony! That alone should have eliminated him as a viable host of this "journalist" program. I could barely watch it when Choke-Me & Mr Spock were co-hosts. I miss David Brinkley.

[Captain Peter Blood]

It's all going downhill for them. Wonder what the ratings of Face the Nation are?
These guys in network news just don't get and never will and the public is voting with their remotes. Yet they will continue to put on the same tripe and convince themselves that ratings just don't matter.
I think they are in a delusional spin and they just can't see reality.