Comments on: Sweeps: DC 11 p.m. newscast audience down, AM grows http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/ Where TV Finds the Future Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:04:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ratboy http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-700458 Ratboy Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:24:40 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-700458 Wow, thanks for the excellent information! Wow, thanks for the excellent information!

]]> By: Andrew Langer http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-83523 Andrew Langer Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:12:15 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-83523 Hello, I am all for more small media outlets. The networks are just not the answer to getting information out there. Somehow people think Internet news is not as good as broadcast, so that's why I call for more small media outlets. For example John Berlau is pretty much restricted to small print publications. A syndicated or even regular nationwide show with him would be great. Julie DeFalco and Brooke Oberwetter could provide good commentary on technical issues. Prostitution is an issue that needs more coverage. Berlau is an expert on this, as he has worked both sides of the street as you might say. But apart from that he has got many hours of solid material consisting of interviews with prostitutes and their customers. I just happen to think a well done series would show people some things they had never known. Now my own blog the Andrew Langer Liberty Blog is another case in point. Readership is low but I think people could tear themself away from whatever it is for 15 minutes a week to listen to what I have to say. I would not need or maybe even want television coverage but radio would work. Yes I could certainly do a couple of 15 minute spots a week. And we won't even get into my ideas about the Andrew Langer Food Show. Hello,

I am all for more small media outlets. The networks are just not the answer to getting information out there. Somehow people think Internet news is not as good as broadcast, so that’s why I call for more small media outlets.

For example John Berlau is pretty much restricted to small print publications. A syndicated or even regular nationwide show with him would be great. Julie DeFalco and Brooke Oberwetter could provide good commentary on technical issues.

Prostitution is an issue that needs more coverage. Berlau is an expert on this, as he has worked both sides of the street as you might say. But apart from that he has got many hours of solid material consisting of interviews with prostitutes and their customers. I just happen to think a well done series would show people some things they had never known.

Now my own blog the Andrew Langer Liberty Blog is another case in point. Readership is low but I think people could tear themself away from whatever it is for 15 minutes a week to listen to what I have to say. I would not need or maybe even want television coverage but radio would work. Yes I could certainly do a couple of 15 minute spots a week.

And we won’t even get into my ideas about the Andrew Langer Food Show.

]]> By: Troy http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-82789 Troy Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:22:28 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-82789 On target Saf, As a media guy, I have abandoned altogether late news & I don't even offer it to my clients. If anything - its prime network news and not the local flavor. As you mentioned in the story, folks are getting the news they want from the internet, not what is offered (oldway) broadcast. Even teasers for local TV news on AM radio out here (SF Bay Area) are finding new ways to hook the view i.e. special/human interest etc. I would suspect their numbers are way down as well. Times - they are ‘a changing. On target Saf,

As a media guy, I have abandoned altogether late news & I don’t even offer it to my clients. If anything - its prime network news and not the local flavor.

As you mentioned in the story, folks are getting the news they want from the internet, not what is offered (oldway) broadcast. Even teasers for local TV news on AM radio out here (SF Bay Area) are finding new ways to hook the view i.e. special/human interest etc. I would suspect their numbers are way down as well.

Times - they are ‘a changing.

]]> By: Steve Safran http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-82724 Steve Safran Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:34:55 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-82724 It's not a DC-only phenomenon, although I will grant you traffic there is a whole new kind of cruel. (And this from a Boston guy.) Culturally, we have changed and the 11 pm shows can't depend on lead-ins the way they used to. It’s not a DC-only phenomenon, although I will grant you traffic there is a whole new kind of cruel. (And this from a Boston guy.) Culturally, we have changed and the 11 pm shows can’t depend on lead-ins the way they used to.

]]> By: Everett W. http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-82699 Everett W. Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:15:17 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2006/12/01/sweeps-dc-11-pm-newscast-audiences-crumbling-am-grows/#comment-82699 Okay, all that and the fact that traffic patterns have become so bleeped up in the D.C. area that people need to get up extra early for morning rush. Correspondingly, people become less willing/able to stay up for late news. Okay, all that and the fact that traffic patterns have become so bleeped up in the D.C. area that people need to get up extra early for morning rush. Correspondingly, people become less willing/able to stay up for late news.

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