[SevenofNine]

OMG you know what Katie going get kill in ratings here in SO Cal by reruns of Alice and Mama family ROFL

[Thombo2]

Good analysis.IMO the networks will continue to crank out the same inaccurate and biased “news” till the bitter end.Why?It’s part of the leftist/elitist agenda.

[CBart95]

Why all the surprise? News in name only? Content-free crap?

Sensationalistic and sordid focus on non-issues and silly-assed side-subjects, fit for fools and mouth-breathers?

Newscasters pretending to be journalists,but merely news “readers”. News “Dolls” all made up and gushing about horrible tragedies and death lists from current war activities with no semblence of compassion whatsoever?

Obsessive and idiotic longwinded coverage of banal doings of the idle rich and insane priviledged few.

Are you starting to get some kind of clue why viewership is falling off?

[AlaskaErik]

Count me as one of those who doesn’t waste his time on the biased, leftist and slanted alphabet evening news broadcasts.

[mewzilla]

Their viewers are dying off.

[Cicero]

In the early days, the networks were willing to take losses on their news operations because they contributed greatly to their prestige and gravitas and indirectly attracted more viewers to their other shows.

That is decreasingly true, I should think. What is the point of having an expensive a loss leader, if fewer and fewer people respect it or bother to watch it?

[Steely Tom]

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.

This is like saying "The typical professor in the Princeton philosophy department could care less that the University has had another unprofitable year."

[curmudgeonII]

What a pity.

[curmudgeonII]

What a pity.

[Milhous]

“Low-Water Mark for Broadcast TV Viewing”

The Project for Excellence in Journalism keeps lowering its bar to accommodate a monotonically decreasing "low-water mark".

Evening News Viewership, All Networks

[ApplegateRanch]

If you think their numbers are bad now, wait until they start their summer re-runs...

CBS Evening News: tonight, The Best of Katie Couric;

Welcome to ABC’s Nightly Highlights of 2006;

NBC is proud to present our nightly retrospective, The Decade in Review.

[JZelle]

Only the fairness doctrine can save them now!

[mombonn]

BUT, the news operations of each of the Big 3 networks are very small parts of very large organizations (CBS Inc., NBC-GE, and ABC-Disney),

So we continue to hit them where it hurts - in their corporate pocketbooks.

Not just turn off the news, but stop going to Disney, buy GE, etc.