Zucker says NBC may scale down programming hours

Breitbart.com ^ | Dec. 8, 2008

[Frantzie]

Hopefully GE/NBC/MSNBC will die with the NY Times.

[ChicagahAl]

“the company last week laid off 500 employees....to trim $500 million next year.

I think I see the problem. $1Mil apiece. Who do these worker think they are; the UAW?

“if we don't change the models of these local TV stations, we will be newspapers, we will be car companies,”

I'll vote for that (the going out of business implication, not the bail-out implication).

[SlowBoat407]

They can start with their propaganda wing: SNL, the Nightly News, and Today.

[Political Junkie Too]

Let me see... what do I watch on NBC...

I only just started watching Heroes, but I watched it on Netflix Instant Watch...

I watched ER since the series began, but that's ending this season...

Nope, can't think of another thing on NBC that I watch.

-PJ

[Wil H]

I’ve got a great idea for a new series for NBC ..

It’s called “How are the Mighty Fallen”

It chronicles the demise of the once great giants of the media - The Tribune, The New York times, NBC, CBS ABC....

In the final episode they all sink into the abyss.

Great entertainment!

[Alex Murphy]

Zucker told analysts at a media investor conference sponsored by UBS that NBC is considering cutting the number of hours or perhaps even the number of nights it provides programming.

[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."

Walter Abbott, (b. 1950), Media observer and commentator

[Enterprise]

Paid Programming now? Make millions in home foreclosures. Debbie Myers miracle green bags.

[Rastus]

I hate their news department but like a lot of their shows. My Own Worst Enemy is already dead, but I’d like to see Chuck, Heroes and Crusoe stick around. Mainly Chuck. Enemy was largely patriotic, with one of the guys even taking on MS-13 last week. Crusoe has a positive view of Christianity and is pretty morally upright. Six years on the island, and faced with a beautiful woman, Crusoe says, “I can’t do this. I took a vow before God to be faithful to my wife.”

[Emperor Palpatine]

Maybe if they programmed good shows again, they wouldn’t be in the mess they’re in.

Where have the “Hill Street Blues”, “St Elsewheres”, and “Cosby Shows” gone? Even “Law & Order” is a shell of its former self.

Instead we get “My Name Is Earl”..........

[abb]

[Twotone]

What do I watch on NBC? Absolutely NOTHING! :-)

[Sybeck1]

The Office is great IMO.....

[Grampa Dave]

Wednesday and Thursday nights have become a black hole for us.

Unless we can find a good movie, for get it.

After we got back from Church and a little shopping yesterday about noonish, I was channel surfing to check on the Eagles for my DIL and finding the 9er game. Two of the major channels were running info commercials. TNT had a couple of fair pilot type shows on early in the evening, the Librarian and Leverage. Totally unbelieveable but not bad. The tv went off after Leverage was over.

[Bookbuck]

I’m in the same boat—there’s not a single NBC show I watch. I think there’s only one ABC show I watch, and that’s not regularly. Frankly, I’m pretty much over tv. The kind of shows I like tend to get cancelled before they find an audience or they’re niche shows that will never get a big audience and get moved/bumped/canned on a whim. Why get invested in the first place?

[abb]

[Soliton]

I'll give them a tip. Make a modern version of Combat from the 1960's and set it in Afghanistan. Make it patriotic. Make us cry when a hero dies. Make us laugh at American boy tomfoolery, and take sides against the muzzies. They will make a $Billion. http://www.nowchannel.com/tv/series/?23

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’ve enjoyed The Office but I don’t have a TV....I just download torrents of it.

[llevrok]

Makes sense. I tune into NBC. A Law and Order episode from 2003. So I go over to tBS and the Law and Order is from 2008!