[abb]

Friday morning I posted a NY Times story reporting that the WGA rejected the latest offer from the Hollywood Suits and that the strike will go on.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932707/posts

This posting received only four replies. FReepers have commented on previous simliar postings about what TV shows they like, don’t like, must see, etc. It is instructive that this post received so little attention.

What could be happening is that the TV viewing public may have realized how superfluous prime-time TV has become. They don’t care that no new shows are being written and produced. Many other entertainment and information sources are available.

This could be serious trouble for the industry. I think it may be good news.

[Grampa Dave]

A few years ago, the San Francisco NBC channel poed Charlie of Dish re some demands or else. Charlie opted for the else and there was no Channel 4, the local NBC channel on Dish in the Frisco Area.

This went on for months, and my wife and I didn’t know that it happened. We found out when one of our sons visited and could get channel 4, the local NBC channel.

Your comment runs along the line re if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there. Does it make a sound?

[Bernard]

The 3 major networks have been trying to convince themselves that they had to be all things to all people. So, while the cable system has led to special channels for all tastes and purposes, the 3 major networks have been bucking the trend. And hoping that the trend reverses someday.

Well, maybe that day is on the way. My extended basic cable package with Comcast continues to lose English language channels every few months. When it gets to the point where the only thing I have left is the Spanish language channels, Home Shopping Network, CNN, and the 3 major networks, maybe I will watch the network shows again.

Or, maybe not.