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Study says boomers don't like what's on TV
Associated Press ^ | 11-19-06 | DAVID BAUDER

Posted on 11/19/2006 8:53:37 PM PST by Snickering Hound

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To: Snickering Hound
Two decades ago drug companies didn't advertise on TV; now you could fill a medicine cabinet with all the products hawked on the evening news.

I may be wrong (because I am aging!!), but I think that 20 years ago, drug companies were not allowed to advertise on TV. Now they are. That could be the reason why there are more drug commercials today than there were 20 years ago.

Speaking of aging, I was born in 1962, but have never considered myself to be a baby-boomer (even though anyone born up through 1964 is supposedly a Boomer). A few years back, I read an article comparing the differences between Baby Boomers, and Gen X'ers. I had a lot more in common with Gen X. They said that the Boomers, for example, grew up listening to Elvis, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones. I can name a handful of Elvis songs because EVERYONE knows them - they are everywhere, and you can't get away from them. I think I can name 2 or 3 Stones songs, but that is about it. I learned Beatles songs only when I got into high school, and had my interest sparked because we played a Beatles montage in band.

By the time I started noticing pop music, about age 9-11, all of those listed above were either over, or not being played extensively in roller skating rinks, or "Top 40" radio stations, the only music that I heard. The first music I remember being "in" to was by the Partridge Family, and top 40 songs such as "Kung Fu Fighting" and "The Night Chicago Died" (I cringe making that admission!!).

Either way, I think that the boundaries of what constitutes a "Baby Boomer" are not very accurate.
61 posted on 11/19/2006 9:42:24 PM PST by Zetman (I believe the children are the next generation.)
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To: Snickering Hound
"Jones is pushing the idea of a "middlescence," about 40-to-59-year-olds who don't feel young anymore but don't feel old, and have plenty of discretionary income."

The television executives need to do something different if they expect to pry some of that bountiful discretionary income out of my hands and into the coffers of their advertisers. However, the heirs to my estate hope they continue to ignore me and drive me away to alternative, non-commercial forms of entertainment. :-)

62 posted on 11/19/2006 9:43:31 PM PST by Unmarked Package
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To: BunnySlippers

Sitcoms are horrible. There used to be some good ones, but now it's stupid people saying stupid things that nobody would ever say and doing things that no one would ever do. The example I always point to is the one episode of NewsRadio I watched. The characters go to lunch at a Chuck E. Cheese-style restaurant, and one of them says, "Where is our waiter? I haven't seen him in a while." Suddenly, the guy rises up from under the balls in the ball pool, smoking. "Oh, I was on break." Okay. I'm not an All in the Family fan, but you would never have seen that BS there.


63 posted on 11/19/2006 9:43:39 PM PST by Rastus
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To: acapesket

Jack has been on that boat to China for a long time.


64 posted on 11/19/2006 9:43:54 PM PST by xp38
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To: sageb1

I did a survey on one about a month ago. The name of the half hour sitcom was, "Dads" & just going on the name, what would you expect to see in the show?


65 posted on 11/19/2006 9:44:41 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: claudiustg

I've never seen it put that eloquently!

CA....


66 posted on 11/19/2006 9:45:08 PM PST by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've once again found that silly grin!)
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To: sageb1

It's about people from different parts of the world who have developed super powers and are slowly coming together to stop a nuclear holocaust. One of the heroes--the flying guy--is Natalie Maines's husband. But, don't let that stop you. :)

Warning: it's very violent and gory.


67 posted on 11/19/2006 9:45:19 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Snickering Hound

Yeah the shows have young people but we get equal time during comercials. Ensure, gotta go medicine, funeral and life insurance planning, skin care, eye surgeries, sexual dysfuntion medication, assisted living homes .... Commercial used to be entertaining. Now they are just depressing.


68 posted on 11/19/2006 9:45:35 PM PST by CindyDawg (Lord, please open eyes and touch hearts and provide us with Christian Leaders.)
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To: william clark

I wouldn't mind trying House or 24, but I'd have to get the DVDs first. I hate to come in in the middle.


69 posted on 11/19/2006 9:46:14 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Snickering Hound
Except for "South Park," I don't watch any current shows on TV.
I'm awaiting season three of "Miami Vice" on DVD.
70 posted on 11/19/2006 9:46:43 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: william clark
Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Eureka, South Park, a few other, but not many. I used to watch ER, Medium, and a couple of sitcoms, but they kept throwing the homosexual sobstory line in them, so I quit watching.
71 posted on 11/19/2006 9:47:21 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: GSlob
"In '88 I had a TV for a few months, could not stand the crap and gave it away, and my wellbeing has improved mightily."

Hey dad! Good to see you! :)

jk jk

72 posted on 11/19/2006 9:48:00 PM PST by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: BunnySlippers

We boomers are the ones with the money. It's our cohort that's buying the Lexuses. No point in advertising cars, cruises, and other expensive goodies to people who are too young to have the disposable income to buy them.


73 posted on 11/19/2006 9:48:14 PM PST by Fairview
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To: TheBigB

I've enjoyed Lost this season, though I know it's gotten a mixed reaction. Veronica Mars started out as VM Lite, but there have been some great episodes. The most recent one was really good. Don't know if you know, but it's finally been picked up for the rest of the season. They wanted an additional nine episodes, but only got seven more. I don't mind being two shy, but I hope it isn't a sign that a fourth season is off the table.


74 posted on 11/19/2006 9:48:45 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Snickering Hound
The quality of television programming has decreased enormously in the last decade. Most of the writers are in their 20s and the substance of the scripts that make it to air are nil. To think of the many pilots that were rejected always made me wonder just what TPTB were thinking when they picked their new lineups. The adult dramas with a cast of various ages are so fluffy or liberal (think Studio 60) that I refuse to watch. The sitcoms are ridiculous as well. Years ago, CBS was known as the old folks network: "Murder She Wrote," "Diagnoses Murder," "Touched By An Angel" and "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" - they all pulled in great ratings but were cancelled so the network could appeal to the younger kids. The best sitcoms ever, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Newhart" and even "Cheers" had an older cast and were fabulous. And the ironic thing is that 50 plus adults have much more money than the younger folks do.
75 posted on 11/19/2006 9:48:49 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: sageb1

Wow sage, your age is showing! ;)


76 posted on 11/19/2006 9:49:30 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: GoLightly

I really couldn't guess. Not anymore.


77 posted on 11/19/2006 9:49:51 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

My favorite movie of all time is "The Long Hot Summer" with Don Johnson and Jason Robards.


78 posted on 11/19/2006 9:51:33 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Rastus

I would sincerely doubt it gets to a 4th season, regardless. The ratings have never been stellar, and only a small-but-loyal fanbase has kept it afloat for a third season. Plus, it doesn't seem to have the same spark that it did when Veronica was at Neptune High. Same with Smallville...this is a relatively weak season, if you ask me. They never should have killed off Jonathan Kent.


79 posted on 11/19/2006 9:51:40 PM PST by TheBigB (Do you think "Lady in the Water" is in Ted Kennedy's NetFlix queue?)
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To: Spirochete
"Sponsors like the visciously racist Orbitz."

Really? I can't recall even seeing any Orbitz commercials, although I've used them for flights. How are they racist?

80 posted on 11/19/2006 9:54:06 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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