Comments on: Will viewership return to pre-strike levels? http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/ Where TV Finds the Future Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:15:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: coffee http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/#comment-756186 coffee Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:31:19 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/#comment-756186 Although we'll have mostly-sucky television for the next year, the jarring break in the production grind (and lets not forget, another one quite possibly coming with SAG) seems to have given the networks an opportunity to break out of an obviously wasteful pilot production/upfront cycle. I suspect we'll end up with better-budgeted, shorter-seasoned, pre-plotted arc television - much like cable network shows. I like this idea. Or we could get.....supersized seasons of existing show properties. Silly network rabbit. Although we’ll have mostly-sucky television for the next year, the jarring break in the production grind (and lets not forget, another one quite possibly coming with SAG) seems to have given the networks an opportunity to break out of an obviously wasteful pilot production/upfront cycle. I suspect we’ll end up with better-budgeted, shorter-seasoned, pre-plotted arc television - much like cable network shows. I like this idea. Or we could get…..supersized seasons of existing show properties. Silly network rabbit.

]]> By: Tim http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/#comment-751975 Tim Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:25:15 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/#comment-751975 Downloadable and streaming video on the Net is Tivo without the monthly fee. Pick the content you want to watch, watch it when you want. The strike hasn't changed that, it's just made it more likely for more people to discover that fact. As more people adopt cable and DSL connections, more will move away from broadcast as their content source. This, unfortunately, doesn't bode well for the deal the writers just struck: sooner or later the big networks will introduce Internet-only shows, which I believe under the terms I've heard (note, I have not read the agreement) will not pay the writers nearly as much. Downloadable and streaming video on the Net is Tivo without the monthly fee. Pick the content you want to watch, watch it when you want.

The strike hasn’t changed that, it’s just made it more likely for more people to discover that fact.

As more people adopt cable and DSL connections, more will move away from broadcast as their content source.

This, unfortunately, doesn’t bode well for the deal the writers just struck: sooner or later the big networks will introduce Internet-only shows, which I believe under the terms I’ve heard (note, I have not read the agreement) will not pay the writers nearly as much.

]]> By: Bill Gorman http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/#comment-749716 Bill Gorman Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:52:29 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/02/13/will-viewership-return-to-pre-strike-levels/#comment-749716 Household hours of television / day is fairly flat, after having risen until the last year or two. It's the viewership of the big broadcast networks that has been inexorably falling for the last 25 years or so. All that viewing has been going to cable. The strike will likely accelerate it a bit, but it would have kept falling regardless. Household hours of television / day is fairly flat, after having risen until the last year or two.

It’s the viewership of the big broadcast networks that has been inexorably falling for the last 25 years or so.

All that viewing has been going to cable.

The strike will likely accelerate it a bit, but it would have kept falling regardless.

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