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Golden Globes deliver second-worst ratings since '95 (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
Los Angeles Times ^ | January 12, 2009 | Scott Collins

Posted on 01/12/2009 11:37:19 AM PST by abb

Fancy gowns and teary speeches made a comeback at Sunday's Golden Globes on NBC, but all that couldn't rescue the ceremony's ratings, with the telecast delivering its second-worst numbers since 1995.

The three-hour Globes averaged 14.6 million total viewers, according to early data from Nielsen Media Research. That was a big improvement over last year, when the writers strike led to a stripped-down, one-hour telecast seen by a total of only 6 million viewers.

But the Sunday telecast marked a steep dive from 2007, when the Globes averaged 20 million total viewers -- not to mention as recently as 2004, when the award show was encroaching on Oscar territory with an audience of 26.8 million.

It's possible that last year's interruption may have hurt the Globes. Limited constituencies for the movies nominated this year -- including "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road" and "Slumdog Millionaire" -- probably didn't help, either.

On the bright side, the Globes ranked first in every half-hour the program aired except for the 8:00-8:30 p.m. block, when CBS' "60 Minutes" was artificially inflated due to the runover in some markets from the San Diego Chargers-Pittsburgh Steelers football game.

On Fox, a two-hour special season opener of "24" averaged 12.6 million total viewers, which was slightly higher than the numbers for the series' "Redemption" TV movie that aired back in November and roughly in line with "24's" season averages across its run.

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1 posted on 01/12/2009 11:37:21 AM PST by abb
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2 posted on 01/12/2009 11:37:50 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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Good, my Mom watched it just to see what the people were wearing, doesn’t care for any of the stars, I of course watched the Laker game :-) But I could hear from the other room the Obama love fest and some drunk fool from Tina Fey’s show ramble on and on about his love for Obama, sickening. Then I heard after wards some stars talking about how they all have to help Obama succeed, and I was like “Ok, so go ahead and open up your wallet then”


3 posted on 01/12/2009 11:39:29 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/01/12/who-suffers-first-in-the-death-of-the-press/
Who suffers first in the death of the press


4 posted on 01/12/2009 11:42:34 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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There were a few hits sprinkled throughout the nominations. I think “Mamma Mia” and “Benjamin Button” made money. However, it might have helped if they’d nominate one particular movie that people really enjoyed, namely “The Dark Night”.


5 posted on 01/12/2009 11:43:01 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: abb
I watched it for a while with some friends after the football game to give it the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment. After a short time it was way too easy to ridicule them.
6 posted on 01/12/2009 11:43:35 AM PST by KarlInOhio (On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
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Have never understood people’s desire to watch other people pat themselves on the back for hours on end.


7 posted on 01/12/2009 11:44:20 AM PST by relictele
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I think the celebs have been spooked because — I'll give them this — they all looked stunning last night. In a lifetime of watching these shows, I have never seen the stars and would-be stars look so glamorous and put together across the board. For example, Drew Barrymore, who is a normal-looking person most of the time, morphed into a knockout for the evening. Other regular-types like Laura Dern and Laura Linney also were tastefully glammed up. Mickey Rourke did look freaky, but the rest of the men were clean-shaven and looked great in their dinner jackets. (Oh, yeah: Colin Farrell's hoop earrings were asinine, I admit.) Anyway, my real point is that it seemed to me that the folks in Hollywood know they are vulnerable, so they put aside self-indulgence, at least as long as it took to clean up and do what they're paid for: look like movie stars!
8 posted on 01/12/2009 11:44:35 AM PST by utahagen
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I watching Masterpiece theatre on PBS be honest Abb I don’t give rat*** about Golden Globe bunch of Euros giving award to movie I never hear of it


9 posted on 01/12/2009 11:45:13 AM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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Awwwww, guess most of us aren’t really interested in overpaid idiots giving themselves unearned and undeserved pats on their backs and having obamagasms while doing so.

Didn’t even know it was going on. The TV was turned off after the football games were over.


10 posted on 01/12/2009 11:46:07 AM PST by Theresawithanh (Impeach Obama)
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Great. This is what I’ve been waiting to hear — was hoping 24 would blow it out of the water. No one even heard the political statements of those idiot hollywood people.


11 posted on 01/12/2009 11:46:57 AM PST by jersey117
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To: abb

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/
Live-Blogging The Awful Golden Globes...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003929436
Pink Slips: ‘Financial Times’ Laying Off Another 80 On Digital/Print Integration


12 posted on 01/12/2009 11:46:58 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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"It's possible that last year's interruption may have hurt the Globes."

WOW!!! Amazing how these tards really don't get it.....

13 posted on 01/12/2009 11:49:05 AM PST by BossLady (Liberals have Stockholm Syndrome.....Conservatives have Lima Syndrome....)
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...what are these people going to rant about when Bush is gone?


14 posted on 01/12/2009 11:49:15 AM PST by Tzimisce (http://groups.myspace.com/nailthemessiah)
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What are the golden globes for anyway? It looks like movies, but don’t the oscars cover that? Is golden globes just a “me too” award? And I think the emmies are for tv...right?


15 posted on 01/12/2009 11:54:31 AM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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My wife watches this show, and it baffles me why she does. She listens to the crap they spew, and doesn’t think about it critically. She doesn’t agree with them, but it doesn’t bother her to hear it either. I won’t watch it.

My guess is that a good many people who voted against Obama are sick and tired of the Hollyweird set. I’ve found ways to cut my support of Hollywood by 75 to 90%. I still want to be aware of what the cultural impact of Hollywood is, so I do try to catch a lot of movies. I do think paying $5 bucks for DVDs is probably about the best I can do to reduce my support for this sordid industry.

These award shows are absolutely disgusting. Watching the public fawn over these miscreants, and watching the actors’ behavior to boot, repulses me incredibly.


16 posted on 01/12/2009 11:55:01 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I see that Kenya's favorite son has a new weekly Saturday morning radio show.)
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It was worth it to see “Milk” and “Frost/Nixon” shut out by “Slumdog Millionaire” and Mickey Rourke. It was also fun watching Brad and Angelina getting passed over on both the Golden Globes and Critics Choice awards.


17 posted on 01/12/2009 11:55:44 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: abb

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-warner10-2009jan10,0,3466392.story
Warner Bros. to outsource jobs overseas
Scores of ‘back-office’ workers are expected to be laid off as jobs are sent to India and Poland as part of a cost-cutting move.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aK_ODJycRwxs
Moonves Says Web Sales Have Weakened Since Cnet Buy

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090111_074874.htm
Yahoo!’s Next Frontier: Internet TV

http://www.247wallst.com/2009/01/twelve-major-me.html
Twelve Major Media Brands Likely To Close In 2009
No one working in the media industry will ever have seen a year as bad as 2009 will be

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/01/tivo-redesigns.html
TiVo Redesigns Search Function, Wants to be the ‘Google of TV’

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/media-agencies-research/e3i947d7121b176518a4f952bab2a5c7088
Single-Copy Mag Sales Trending Downward


18 posted on 01/12/2009 11:56:10 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: randog

Last week we had the Peoples’ Choice Awards followed the next night by the Critics’ Choice Awards. Last nights Globes were voted on by the international press corps and the Oscars are voted on by the unionized actors, directors, camermen, etc.


19 posted on 01/12/2009 11:57:36 AM PST by sarasota
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” Limited constituencies for the movies ....”

IOW “box-office bombs”.


20 posted on 01/12/2009 11:59:56 AM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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