Worst week in the history of broadcast TV

lostexpectation

Last week was the least-viewed week in the history of broadcast network television in the USA.

CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox averaged 20.8 million viewers during the average prime-time minute last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. That sunk below the previous record, set during the last week of July in 2005.

TV keeps losing to gaming, the Internet, youtubing, etc, and yet our elected representatives are willing to kill innovation and open source with a Broadcaast Flag that is intended only to assuage the fears of the broadcasters and studios, but which will have no impact at all on file-sharing. Link (via TWIT)

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/21/worst_week_in_the_hi.html

sceptre

lostexpectation wrote:

Last week was the least-viewed week in the history of broadcast network television in the USA.

Judging by some of the grammar in the article you copied, I'd like to see it continue. I'm not criticising you by the way. That's a terribly sloppy bit of reporting though, even for someone (me) who successfully ignores piss-poor English usage as a general rule.

Robbo

Christ above, have you even read Boingboing before?

It's a mildly entertaining blog for ephemera, memes and the like but as soon as they try on their "media commentator" hats, lunacy abounds. Before even reading that I guessed that they're try to shoehorn in something about the Broadcast Flag. Then there's that guff about Youtube killing network TV. Is that by the same token as bull-loggers killing newspapers, the trend that has brought Sir Doctor Tony O'Reilly to his knees?

They should stick to what their good at, posts along the lines of "ZOMFG! AREN'T THE JAPANESE SOOOOO WHACKY!".

Perhaps viewing numbers are falling because there isn't anything good on?

tvnutz

lostexpectation wrote:

Last week was the least-viewed week in the history of broadcast network television in the USA.

CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox averaged 20.8 million viewers during the average prime-time minute last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. That sunk below the previous record, set during the last week of July in 2005.

TV keeps losing to gaming, the Internet, youtubing, etc, and yet our elected representatives are willing to kill innovation and open source with a Broadcaast Flag that is intended only to assuage the fears of the broadcasters and studios, but which will have no impact at all on file-sharing. Link (via TWIT)

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/21/worst_week_in_the_hi.html

Its the middle of summer,none of the big shows are on. You have summer filler shows that no one really watches and some good cable shows which don't exactly do amazing because they are cable. What doy uo expect from mid July?

J.R.HARTLEY

oh i thought you meant in ireland, not in some other country where their lets fill in the sumer months with crap schedule won't effect us anyway.

sceptre

Robbo wrote:

Christ above, have you even read Boingboing before?

No, or at least not that I can remember.

It's a mildly entertaining blog for ephemera, memes and the like but as soon as they try on their "media commentator" hats, lunacy abounds.

So with media commentator hat on they're somewhere in the Maddox league?

Robbo

sceptre wrote:

So with media commentator hat on they're somewhere in the Maddox league?

They're big into that "blogger as a deity" thing, citizen journalism and the whatever's the latest line in imperial haute couture.

weemcd

Love it or hate it, if it continues it's current growth (and inst anal'd because of piracy worries:rolleyes:) Youtube could well become a real contender to conventional television, the site isn't even going a year now and anyone with a net connection must know something about it... imagine the technology growing and looking back on it five years from now. Is functional HD-quality streaming really that far from a reality?

lostexpectation

okay I take all your points but it is true and they are correct.