"Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded."
Walter Abbott, (b. 1950), Media observer, blogger and commentator
I honestly have no idea what major broadcast TV has to offer. I stopped watching them years ago. They lie to me, they insult me, they attack my values and then they expect to watch their drivel? Shoosh.
What do they expect? I get about 80 channels and mostly watch Fox news and old movies.
A truer statement on this subject could not be written. Why in the world would most thinking people watch most of the cude left-wing sermonizing trash on TV?
We only watch shows online.
The television sits unused, now, for over four months. We’ve only turned it on for probably three hours over the past two and a half years.
Redbox, Hulu, and the networks’ own sites are much preferred.
Da soonah, da bettah.
Does anybody actually watch their trash anymore?
Caught “Duel” on a cable channel the other day. I can’t believe it was a prime-time ABC Movie of the Week after seeing what’s on ABC today.
Perhaps if the networks spent more time developing quality programs that weren’t based upon how often some twenty-something got laid and stopped trying to shove their political viewpoints down our throats, we’d be more inclined to watch them.
For the record, I recently witnessed the announcement indicating the brilliance of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes.
Niel Cavuto had Paul Gigot on and did a great interview. It was announced that Paul Gigot would become a Fox contributor and would have his own show on Niel’s business Network (I think it was the business rather than Fox News).
From Wikii.....Paul A. Gigot is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative political commentator and the editor of the editorial pages for The Wall Street Journal
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This is synergism of the most powerful news entities working together to develop absolutely outstanding presentations.
As an aside but pertinent aside, I think Rubert approached Steve Forbes sometime back but was rebuffed. Rather than sell out, a very strategic alliance was proposed and developed where by there are Fox double page ads in Forbes and many of the Forbes folks at the very top make very large contributions to Fox programming.
Rupert is controlling the future with the synergy of his holdings in a manner at which his competitors can only marvel.
television is so 1974
We have websites, digital radio, CDs, ipods, video games, personal computers, cellphones, youtube, and social networks.
The only people still watching the nightly news on the alphabet networks are stuck in a decades old HABIT and don’t care that the anchors are lying to them nightly.
There’s something wrong in tv land when viewers scan through the tv menu day after day and despite having a hundred channels to choose from there’s still nothing to watch.
I have to tell y’all..I absolutely LOVE watching reruns of All In The Family on TV Land! What’s great is my 17 year old daughter enjoys it too..and she adores the character of Archie Bunker! Mike and Gloria..not so much!!
Together, the four networks averaged 18.9 million viewers last week, Nielsen said. During the season, "American Idol" alone usually gets a bigger audience than that... the Spanish-language Univision is stepping up. Among the closely-watched 18-to-49-year-old demographic, Univision finished second only to Fox in prime-time last week. It's not World Cup soccer that is behind Univision's success, it's the prime-time telenovelas "Soy tu Duena" and "Hasta Dinero Separe."
All of these guys are also heavily involved in cable (owning multiple cable channels), so things might not be as dire as you think.
What is interesting (and getting missed, imho) is how the digital change will eventually bury cable. Broadcast TV (ironicly) is going to end up outlasting cable.
Go to zap2it.com, put in your zip code, click TV, then select broadcast (antenna) as your provider. You’ll be amazed at how many channels you never even heard of are being broadcast in your area. And it is all because of subchanneling.
Digital allows over the air broadcasters to send out multiple channels on a single signal. So instead of channel 2, you have 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4...2-30. Yea, I have one broadcaster in my area that is sending out 30 seperate channels on a single transmission. Sure, most of it is junk, but so was most of the stuff on cable when it started.
There is only one station in my area that is broadcasting a single channel. I assume it is because once you are broadcasting one channel, the additional cost to broadcast another subchannel on that signal is essentially $0.00. With 10 broadcasters currently in my area, I wouldn’t be surprised to one day have at least 100 free, over the air channels available.
With free broadcast channels on one end, and internet TV/media on the other end, the guy in the middle getting squeezed out is going to be pay cable/satellite TV.
There is so much more to do than watch those hacks peddle their crap.
I have a new HDTV, beautiful 1080p picture. Unfortunately, there is no TV I want to watch and no new movies I want to buy.
Kind of sad really.
Have’t watched anythnig but the local news and two shows ver the past years. Too many commercials, too my left wing jargon has either made me angry, or as with the commercials, I lose interest and find myself reading.