Comments on: Thursday shows hit series lows after strike http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/ Where TV Finds the Future Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:22:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Foxy http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-1062707 Foxy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:14:41 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-1062707 Good Post Good Post

]]> By: tdc http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-921363 tdc Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:02:32 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-921363 and i am stunned that no one makes the correlation to the decline of local tv news- just like day-old idol episodes, news has no shelf life. why not stream ALL your newscasts? and i am stunned that no one makes the correlation to the decline of local tv news-

just like day-old idol episodes, news has no shelf life.

why not stream ALL your newscasts?

]]> By: Rick Ellis http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-920622 Rick Ellis Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:00:13 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-920622 I'm stunned that no one has mentioned the seemingly obvious cause. With the easy availability of full-episode streaming, it's no wonder that first-run ratings are down. Everything is much less of a 'destintion" viewing decision, and the result is slumping ratings. "Idol" isn't as impacted by the streaming, because no one cares about an episode a day or two after it originally premiered. I’m stunned that no one has mentioned the seemingly obvious cause.

With the easy availability of full-episode streaming, it’s no wonder that first-run ratings are down. Everything is much less of a ‘destintion” viewing decision, and the result is slumping ratings.

“Idol” isn’t as impacted by the streaming, because no one cares about an episode a day or two after it originally premiered.

]]> By: Gorman http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-920119 Gorman Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:31:57 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-920119 Not to mention the fact that the season's "groove" is just now returning. There was a new show here, then another one a week later, but Show C didn't come out until nearly a month after the first two. All the spring shows' return from the strike has been so scattershot, it's not exactly conducive to appointment TV. Not to mention the fact that the season’s “groove” is just now returning. There was a new show here, then another one a week later, but Show C didn’t come out until nearly a month after the first two.

All the spring shows’ return from the strike has been so scattershot, it’s not exactly conducive to appointment TV.

]]> By: Rocker http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-920082 Rocker Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:37:36 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-920082 Most of these shows are mature hits (or in the case of ER, truly geriatric). Ratings for shows always plateau and eventually decline...I think the real emerging issue here is that with all the fragmentation and viewing options, it's becoming impossible to launch a new hit...so all the old shows will eventually wither away and there'll be nothing to replace them. Most of these shows are mature hits (or in the case of ER, truly geriatric). Ratings for shows always plateau and eventually decline…I think the real emerging issue here is that with all the fragmentation and viewing options, it’s becoming impossible to launch a new hit…so all the old shows will eventually wither away and there’ll be nothing to replace them.

]]> By: hey http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919960 hey Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:06:30 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919960 american idols number are amazing considering how all the other shows are falling. and back in january they said how idol was "dying" basically because it "only" got 33 million. omg. thats all i have to say. idol can easily bounce back next season if it gets more interesting personalities among the contestants (it was like they were so scared for a new sanjaya that they picked very boring people), but the dramas, im not so sure if they can bounce back. american idols number are amazing considering how all the other shows are falling. and back in january they said how idol was “dying” basically because it “only” got 33 million. omg. thats all i have to say. idol can easily bounce back next season if it gets more interesting personalities among the contestants (it was like they were so scared for a new sanjaya that they picked very boring people), but the dramas, im not so sure if they can bounce back.

]]> By: Randy http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919377 Randy Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:10:19 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919377 I had a talk with my director of sales, we a local affiliate, last week about the "death of network primetime" and what how are we preparing for it. You would have thought he was a newspaper publisher in 1998. He just didn't believe it was going to happen. I had a talk with my director of sales, we a local affiliate, last week about the “death of network primetime” and what how are we preparing for it. You would have thought he was a newspaper publisher in 1998. He just didn’t believe it was going to happen.

]]> By: discreet_chaos http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919355 discreet_chaos Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:56:05 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919355 I guess that I may be one of the bad guys because I watch of three of the networks nine o'clock block (Eastern), Thursday night shows, but I tend to watch most of them online. Prior to the strike, I'd usually watch one of the networks live, but because I got out of the habit, the post-strike storylines haven't become "important" and because it's usually not dark when they start, I'd have to say that I've been watching all three of them as a stream. I guess that I may be one of the bad guys because I watch of three of the networks nine o’clock block (Eastern), Thursday night shows, but I tend to watch most of them online. Prior to the strike, I’d usually watch one of the networks live, but because I got out of the habit, the post-strike storylines haven’t become “important” and because it’s usually not dark when they start, I’d have to say that I’ve been watching all three of them as a stream.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919051 Anonymous Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:45:23 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919051 Prime time is just about dead. Speaking of which, how are the ratings for the TV-only episodes of Gossip Girl? Prime time is just about dead. Speaking of which, how are the ratings for the TV-only episodes of Gossip Girl?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919036 Anonymous Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:25:37 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-919036 Personally, I've stopped watching television on the television altogether. When I moved, I procrastinated getting cable and eventually decided I was better off without it. CNN used to be the background noise of my day, but I feel better informed without it now. I watch what very few prime time programs I like online in the morning because they get me wired more than they lull me to sleep. During the writers' strike, I was desperate for content and started listening to back episodes of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR, which I like to listen to in the evening because I can close my eyes, and if I fall asleep, all the better. I started watching 30 Rock this season, which blew me away with the MILF Island episode. I still watch The Office, but I can tell they're having to stretch the concept to keep it fresh, since so little of it is set in the office anymore. I was never really a fan of the other shows mentioned. I think, in general, people may have learned from the strike that TV isn't as important to them as it used to be. They at least don't have to structure their lives around appoinment viewing. Personally, I’ve stopped watching television on the television altogether. When I moved, I procrastinated getting cable and eventually decided I was better off without it. CNN used to be the background noise of my day, but I feel better informed without it now. I watch what very few prime time programs I like online in the morning because they get me wired more than they lull me to sleep. During the writers’ strike, I was desperate for content and started listening to back episodes of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on NPR, which I like to listen to in the evening because I can close my eyes, and if I fall asleep, all the better. I started watching 30 Rock this season, which blew me away with the MILF Island episode. I still watch The Office, but I can tell they’re having to stretch the concept to keep it fresh, since so little of it is set in the office anymore. I was never really a fan of the other shows mentioned.

I think, in general, people may have learned from the strike that TV isn’t as important to them as it used to be. They at least don’t have to structure their lives around appoinment viewing.

]]> By: Charles http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-918993 Charles Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:56:58 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/04/27/thursday-shows-hit-series-lows-after-strike/#comment-918993 And yet the newspapers only talk about how American Idol has slipped in ratings! And yet the newspapers only talk about how American Idol has slipped in ratings!

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