[abb]

By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others.

Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.

[abb]

[Izzy Dunne]

Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections

Do we have to wait until then?

How can we speed the process up?

[freerepublic_or_die]

Yeah, CBS News has never been quite the same since the ‘What’s the frequency, Kenneth’ guy, left.

[Liberty2007]

maybe they are realizing we dont like these morning show chuckle factories/celeb worship and want real news in the morning. I hope fox news listens and dumps faux and friends.

[Renfield]

"...A brief word about CBS Sunday Morning: While it is obvious that this network's coverage and presentation of current events is geared toward old people, the target audience of Charles Osgood's show seems to be already dead—peacefully so...."

"..Ben Stein, the actor and economist, came on to do a commentary on the mortgage crisis in which he argued that federal funds should be devoted to aiding the dogs and cats disadvantaged by the fallout. Either this was exquisitely subtle satire, or everyone involved with the segment has lost his mind..."

If I didn't know better, I'd suspect this piece was written by Ann Coulter. It's good stuff.

[Enchante]

CBS has a “news division”???

I hadn’t noticed one.....

[ontap]

Never ceases to amaze me how this bunch has sat on their butts and let this network go to hell when everyone knew and still knows what the problem is. This is what happens when liberals are left in charge of multi million dollar operations or government budgets. I’m sure at this very moment they are hot at trying to find another brain dead liberal to take over and prove they are right. If they try real hard I think they could probably get Kieth Olberman, he would be a perfect fit.

[gridlock]

For the amount of money they are paying Katie, they could buy FoxNEWS lock, stock and barrel, and put out a #1 rated newscast starting Monday.

[snoringbear]

“By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist.”

“To judge by the ads, the most loyal adherents to CBS’ quasi-journalistic programming are impotent and incontinent.”

Yeah, their largest demographic is the geriatric crowd for sure. I get depressed just listening to all those ads for various problems and how they're not for everyone and how they may kill you if you are one of the unlucky one's.

But, nevertheless, these seasoned citizens will be pretty much be gone by the end of the next decade and consequently so will the “Big Three's” most loyal audience.

[Condor51]

** By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. ***

Back in the Stone Age of TV (1950's), I seem to recall that 'network news' was like a 10 minute insert (interruption was more like it) in the Local Newscast. At least in Chicago where we had 4 whopping channels, 3 of which were network owned: 2-CBS, 5-NBC and 7-ABC (Channel 9-WGN).

That how I remember it anyway. And Huntley-Brinkley may have been the 1st 'real' 1/2 hour network news program.

PJ Hoff, where are you now? :-)

[SevenofNine]

OH irony of it LOL!
You must be troll of news division if your last guy got smackdown into retirement by bunch of Freepers now your female star is being smack in the ratings by old episode of Quantum Leap or TMZ.com TV Show LOL!

They should hire Looter guy or Baghdad Bob

[RayChuang88]

The problem with evening network newscasts is that with ther 24-hour news channels and the Internet, you can get news as fast as it happens. That's why NBC--wary of the fiasco of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney--plans to offer extensive live coverage of all events using broadband Internet connections.

We're very fortunate that the Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010 soccer matches will probably start at around 7 to 9 am Eastern time, which means most soccer fans in the Western Hemisphere can watch the game at reasonable hours.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Dead Air- Why CBS should shutter its news division (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™) Slate ^ | April 23, 2008 | Troy Patterson

By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others.

Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded.

Well, I guess the mystery of abb's real identity is revealed.

Nice post, Troy!