On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:14:32 -0700, Taylor
<fetchwithruffruffman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Oct 1, 4:34 pm, SFTV_troy <SFTV_t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 0.6% of the nation watched.
>>
>> Ouch.
>>
>> That's as bad as My (almost) Network TV's average ratings. I bet the
>> folks at CW are probably wi****ng they had not canceled 7th Heaven
>> (which averaged 2.0% last year). Even an eleven-year-old family show
>> would have been better than what they've got now!!!
>>
>> :-o
>>
>> BTW only 0.9 million viewers watched the shows called "CW Now" and
>> "Online Nation".
>
>Did you catch their ratings towards the end? Stinkers. Plus, reruns of
>the show tanked. No thank you. They should have kept fledgling shows
>like 'Everwood' intact.
I tend to argue for the rule of thumb regarding growing a network --
that the Real expansion networks like Fox, The WB and UPN always work
on a 5-year business model before knowing whether it's time to throw
in the towel or not just because of the expense of stabilizing the
affiliate base and stabilizing the new network's slate of shows. And
even then, The WB and UPN took another five years beyond that limit to
collapse and merge into The CW. What gets me is that I'm now of the
mind that, like Ion/Pax and MyN, The CW isn't going to be able to
finish even the customary five-year business model because you just
flat-out can't have a television network business without a schedule
that draws a sufficient enough number of advertisers for the network
to survive through the *expected* losses in those first five years.
I think NBC Universal should buy the network out, and cherry pick the
remaining shows -- move Reaper (into Chuck's timeslot), Smallville and
Supernatural (to Wednesdays, on the opposite sides of Bionic Woman),
move Smackdown (back) to USA, put Gossip Girl on Friday nights before
FNL.
The CW's done.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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