Posted on 07/12/2006 5:52:38 AM PDT by teddyballgame
A year ago tomorrow, I did a post on the continued decline in evening news viewership at Big Three Networks NBC, ABC, and CBS, and made these observations and predictions about why that decline was taking place, and would continue (some of last year's text was slightly revised):
All three nightly broadcasts most likely lose money, when isolated from their morning counterparts (Today, Good Morning America, CBS Morning Show) and their documentary shows (Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, etc.). At a minimum, none makes an acceptable level of profit.
BUT, the news operations of each of the Big 3 networks are very small parts of very large organizations (CBS-Viacom, NBC-GE, and ABC-Disney), so small that apparently no one at any of the three parent companies cares enough to do anything about the continued hemorrhaging in their evening new shows, as long as the news operations themselves are profitable.
So because those other parts of the news operations make money, the nightly news programs can chug right along, oblivous to normal profitability expectations.
The journalists who put together the nightly news programs could care less if the broadcasts are profitable. It's obvious that their agenda is more important.
Because of all of the above, the ever-shrinking audience for these broadcasts will be spoon-fed biased reporting, Bush bashing, and conservative-bashing for the foreseeable future.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Wait till ratings and they lose $
Shadenfreude...
Their relevancy is going right out the window with their audience.
They still do news?
Katie to the rescue!
Freepers need a Deck of Cards of Liberal Media.
I for one cannot wait to mark mine:
CBS - PWNED!
NYTimes - PWNED!
etc.
Now is the time for Fox to launch a newscast on its affiliates at 6:30ET. I have a feeling they would clean up...
The first few stories are "what happened today" news, skewed of course. After that, most of the issue/indepth stories are interviews with people who have written books on the subject (that just cameon the market), or hype for a new movie.
The graph in #9 warms my heart.
Yes, especially when adjusted for US population increase over the time period.
Dinosaurs indeed. Can't remember the last time I watched network or local news on TV. Info can be gathered so much faster and more reliably on the web. When a breaking news event nationally occurs now, I just log-in to FR. Can't be beat.
We got him a computer and even got him to go to training, but he says he couldn't get the hang of 'point-and-click' and never even checked his e-mail or surfed the web. So for him, it's still ABCBSNBC.....
It is absolutely unbearable how NBC hypes new Universal movies coming out without ever revealing to the sheeple they are owned by the same parent company. The latest example being "You Me and Dupree" - I'm already sick of it and it's not even been released yet.
The American public has found that limiting viewership of network news has the benefit of raising IQ's across the country. Washington DC being the notable exception.
90% of the shows on them are crap. And when they get a good show they run it to death.
I am persuaded that this fall will be responded by the BIG THREE's drive to start broadcasting in Spanish with English (aka American) subtitles scrolling across the bottom.
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