Sports,mainly the NFL
Occasionally for Dateline/48 Hours/Primetime kinda things
Coverage of *big* stories (e.g., Tienanmen Square,9/11)
Married With Children (the earlier episodes)
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
The Weakest Link (hosted by the Brit redhead)
That's it.Nothing else.
If NBC had kept Journeyman last season, I’d be watching 50% more NBC than I am now. As I say in all of these threads, maybe more people would watch the shows if the networks did a better job of scheduling them to make them convenient to watch instead of playing games with their schedules in order to hit sweeps. Most people don’t have the time to figure out whether a show is going to be on or not this week and when. And this problem is only compounded by the move from episodic shows, where you can watch any episode in almost any order, to shows with long story arcs that make it important to see every episode and in order.
How about not producing so many lame TV shows that rehash the same old tired plot lines and crap? Maybe one hour less to fill before the news comes on?
How many medical investigative dramas do we need? How many bitchy wife/dumb guy comedies do we need? Smart ass chick/slacker guy angles?
Problems with entertainment industry’s crappy offerings can’t be solved with money. The solution require something their culture simply doesn’t have.
However, I watched an interesting show on railroads on the history channel. Great except for the MTV music and wacky MTV-type “host” and the constant speeding up and slowing down of of the motion pictures.
Yeah, it's called:
Boomerang, Cartoon Network & Nickolodeon - (for old classic cartoons & the rare but occasional good modern cartoon)
SpeedTV - (for Formula 1 and MotoGP racing)
The History Channel - (for sometimes good albeit biased historical documentaries)
Discovery & National Geographic - (for sometimes good albeit biased modern documentaries)
"Regular Networks" and "Sports" Networks - ONLY for some College and NFL Football, some major League Baseball and the occasional NHL Hockey game
Fox Network - The Simpsons
Other than that, DVDs !
Anything GE gets its paws on is doomed to failure. Chrysler CEO Nardelli is a former GE exec. Prior to going to Chrysler he nearly wrecked Home Depot as CEO. Point being, GE has a track record of destroying any business it gets its hands on. Very incompetent organization, starting with Immelt. Not too sympathetic to NBC’s coming demise however.
I think this “deathwatch” is dead.
It is pretty clear the OLD media is still controlling in elections.
McCain was incompetent in campaigning, granted.
The GOP victory commitee was incompetent in organizing (thank’s fiorina), granted.
However, that does not dilute the fact that all the media had a devestating bias for Obama and anti-GOP.
NOT ONE STORY about fannie and freddie democrat responsibility.
****NBC’s sweeping shake-up of its entertainment division last week highlights the deep problems it and other networks face in continuing to produce high-quality shows as advertisers slash spending and viewers find alternate ways to watch TV. ****
AND in other news, President Goldie Hawn has asked NBC to stop the BOMBING!......(Oldline from “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In”...1968)
Any network that pays idiot reporters what they do should fail.
If the “big three” hope to survive they must first cut the yokes from their necks. This would be the useless “loss leader” news divisions.