Broadcast viewership hits record low

[Carbon]

On a positive note...



Broadcast viewership hits record low (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/8/americans-arent-watching-tv/)


NEW YORK (AP) — Americans avoided television in historic levels over the past week.

CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox together had the smallest number of prime-time viewers last week in two decades of record-keeping, the Nielsen Co. said. Given the dominance of the big broadcasters before then, you'd probably have to go back to the early days of television to find such a collective shrug.

The first week of July tends to be among the slowest weeks of the year in television, anyway, with families more engaged in barbecues and fireworks. The problem was magnified this year because July Fourth came on Sunday, largely knocking out one of a typical week's biggest viewing nights.

Together, the four networks averaged 18.9 million viewers last week, Nielsen said. During the season, "American Idol" alone usually gets a bigger audience than that.

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I'd like to think more people are waking up to the fact that TeeVee is a complete waste of time - if not outright dangerous - and not just on vacation... etc. But it's prolly only a handful of the non-watchers this week.

[Phoenix]

If you are not watching TV, you are helping the terrorists!

[steyr_m]

I haven't watched TalmudVision in ten years. I don't miss it. that being said, I will watch Mythbusters at work.

[Ponce]

A couple of shows that I do watch on my lap top..........what is going on in the world itself is more interesting than anything that a Hollywood writer can put down on paper......and what is going to happen will be as interesting as a couple of movies that I have already seen.

[Answer2me]

A simply answer would be that summer is Finlay here, at least on the west coast, they have been hit with patches of nice days. Last week was the first full week of nice warm hot weather, perhaps people simply went outdoors. But of course a simply conspiracy sounds much better.

[Apparition]

I haven't watched television for many days straight and don't really understand what I'm missing.

Reality show trash? Repeats? Sensationalized "journalism"?

Nope, not for me.

[Gaillo]

No Tel-Avision in my home, disconnected that retarded shiit almost 5 years ago. Haven't missed it a bit... if I feel the need for entertainment, I'll listen to music, read a book, or if I just REALLY need to turn my brain off after a few too many beers, I'll plug in a DVD and skip the "commercial messages from our sponsors"! ;D

[AndreaGail]

that is some good news but then theres this....huge numbers turned out to hear where this afflete will be bouncing a ball for millions of dollars in the coming years


James-fest draws big TV ratings

The James-fest, that overblown, reality-TV melodrama Thursday night that was milked like a Jersey cow by the hype machine known as ESPN, got the desired results by the network that compromised journalistic integrity for exclusive access — high ratings.

According to The Nielsen Company, the hour-long melodrama in which LeBron James finally announced he was leaving Cleveland for Miami was seen in 7.3 percent of homes in the nation's markets in which viewership is measured electronically. That's the biggest rating for anything ESPN has carried this year outside the NFL.

Locally, the rating was 5.4 — trailing only the 6.7 figure KMOV (Channel 4) had for "CSI" in the 8-9 p.m. block. (The Cardinals didn't play Thursday night.)

And in the quarter hour in which interviewer Jim Gray finally asked James the only question that mattered after a litany of inconsequential ones, the local rating was 7 — better than any other program airing then on St. Louis TV. Nationally, the number for that 8:15-8:30 p.m. slot was 9.6.

— Dan Caesar

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/dan-caesar/article_f81bbf8a-db7b-50dc-a0af-8d63ffe70fd1.html

[Saul Mine]

18.9 million might be an alarming low, but that is still 6.3% of the population glued to the idiot box every night.

I used to watch Benny Hill, but they canceled it.
Then I watched James At 16, but they canceled it.
Then I watched Desert Storm, but they canceled it.
Then I watched Lazy Town, but they canceled it.

I hesitate to look at tv at all now. It seems that if I like something, they'll cancel it.

[Book]

HDMI out on computer to HDMI in on TV.



http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/images/boy%20at%20movies%20eat%20popcorn.jpg

http://10starmovies.com/Watch-Movies/

Stealing from Hollywood while sticking it to The Man.

:D