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If the news breaks that they have a new game show ready to premiere, that will be the end of Leno, since it's the only other kind of programming that will cost them as much or less.
11/10/09
I know that I've found myself deciding not to sit down for a 9pm show, a couple of times a week because there'd be nothing coming after it, so why bother?
11/10/09
When the unemployment rate hits 10%, is that like the opposite for TV programmers? The get to hire 10% of the idiots they owe a favor to? #jayleno
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11/10/09
- Ditch Leno.
- Get HD video of cute animals. Crisp, clear, cute.
- One hour each night of cute animal videos.
Tada! You have any idea how many people waste time during the workday staring at this stuff? MILLIONS OF HOURS! C’mon network TV; nobody wants to see talking heads. WE WANT TO SEE CUTE ANIMALS!
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HDTV makes Jay Leno’s face look uglier, but HDTV makes puppies, kittens and others look cuter! #jayleno
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Hmm, I may have something here. (Or this may be like one of those ideas that sounds good in the middle of the night when you turn on the light to write it down but in the morning you read: "Goats dancing down Wall Street.") #jayleno
11/11/09
@NorthernLite: Look, this is all I knows. Some Japanese cat named Maru runs into boxes, becomes a YouTube hit and a Japanese star and guess what? That cat has a FULL DVD of his antics for sale in Japan!
THIS IS A NO BRAINER! The Japanese have a market for this! Which means the rest of the world will follow! C’MON TV EXECS, DO THIS!
[tokimeki-p.com]
11/11/09
If any NBC exec kills leno to replace him with an internet clip show, then they should be laughed out of their career, not only for giving Jay Leno a platform to ruin the network, but for replacing Jay Leno with an even cheaper show with a smaller audience and a worse effect in dragging down the network audience as a whole. #jayleno
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And Chevy Chase? Laughing over on Community, a decent little sitcom recently renewed for another 9 episodes on . . . NBC.
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09/15/09
The data about Beck's ad dollars dropping does not contradict Fox's claim that overall revenue are stable.
The chart only shows that Beck's ad revenue has dropped. That's never been in dispute. Why is data pertaining only to his revenue being used to rebuff claims about the channel's overall revenue? Am I missing something?
09/15/09
If advertisers are shifting to other Fox programs, as Fox says they are, then what ads are being bumped for those ones? And are these advertisers still paying for Glenn Beck ratings when they're not advertising on Beck's show? I find that hard to believe.
09/14/09
09/14/09
Plus, even if we make the safe assumption that DR rates are a lot cheaper than non-DR advertising, a large percentage of the non-DR stuff would have been sold in the upfront before last, ie. June-July 2008, before Beck popularity and ratings surged. As such, the guaranteed deals that include this show are likely to be overdelivering, and so moving the units to lower-rated hours on the network are probably not doing much to the actual bottom line, in fact it might actually be helping by enabling FNC to move significantly overdelivering clients to lower rated hours without penalty or argument.
Sorry, I realize that got a bit technical for people not in advertising.
09/14/09
09/14/09
But hey, it fits the mold, run it anyhow!
Can we farm out the political haymaker crap to Wonkette and stick to the fun stuff again?
When it's so obvious that you're trying to prove a political point, land a shot at any cost, it just comes off as pathetic.
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Sorry not buying it , if you can't show us the data then it didn't happen. I'm sure you have a secret source that knows where Hofffa is buried but you can't reveal that either. If you ever intend to be journalist you can't take sides otherwise you're just another liberal/conservative blog site with lots of fan boys.
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If advertisers then start specifically pulling out of an hour your day is now reduced to 23. Which is how at first Fox was able to spin it, many of the advertisers pulling out originally never even aired during Beck's show, but eventually that dead hour catches up.
Long explanation made short, Fox News has to charge slashed rates for a highly rated hour of their day = Lower revenue for the day overall and the hour in question.