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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2010, 07:12:46 AM » |
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That's 9 PM Central, correct? Right before the late news? How enthusiastic was Channel 4 News to have Time-Life Music as a lead-in!
Then again, Saturday night is usually considered the least-watched night of broadcast prime time, so I'm sure not that many people noticed...
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« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2010, 07:17:50 AM » |
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That's 9 PM Central, correct? Right before the late news? How enthusiastic was Channel 4 News to have Time-Life Music as a lead-in! Correct, but how did you know it was Time-Life? I didn't even specify what it was. Is Time-Life doing a major buy? By the way, I don't like those types of compilations, but the programming itself (with old music video footage) is actually quite entertaining!  Then again, Saturday night is usually considered the least-watched night of broadcast prime time, so I'm sure not that many people noticed...
Right, I'm sure that not many people noticed. As for the lead-in for the news, I'm supposing that channel 4 management made the decision to air that programming when they did, so it was an in-house decision. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2010, 07:19:28 AM » |
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Just a wild guess about the infomercial being Time Life; IIRC, it was their infomercial that the aforementioned WCBS/New York aired right before prime time back in the 90's...
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« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2010, 11:06:01 AM » |
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I think sometimes WHDH (NBC) in Boston airs an Infomercial on Saturday night at 7:30 right after Access Hollywood. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually went this route in daytime.
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« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2010, 08:25:11 PM » |
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This is a total Catch-22. Infomericals like the big affiliates because of their ratings, big affiliates like the informericals for their revenue. At what point do these goals converge and cancel themselves out? As in, the ratings drop and the infomercials lose, and the affiliates lose because their ratings lose, and then nobody wins. Of course, nobody looks past the current quarter, do they?
BTW, weekend TV on basic cable has become unwatchable. Between the affiliates and the cable nets, Saturday morning has become a complete wasteland, with infomercials on probably 50% of the channels. I swear this Saturday morning I saw only the following: Informericals, Kids tv, and home improvement shows knocking down walls. Good grief!
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« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2010, 08:37:01 PM » |
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Last time I checked WYFF Greenville, SC (NBC) was
running infomercials at 12:30 PM, between its noon
news and "Days Of Our Lives." I also think another
NBC affiliate in South Carolina, WIS Columbia, does
the same thing.
KSEE NBC 24 in Fresno does the same thing. |
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« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2010, 10:10:23 PM » |
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I wonder how many stations who carry "Oprah" may have to go this route after next year?, especially if they can't secure a replacement that does anything in the ratings, this could also open the door for many major network affiliates to drop the
5:00 P.M. Newscast, a good example is WNBC-TV in New York, and besides i have wondered for quite sometime how long
will it be before more newscasts could be cancelled?, with the advent of the internet, many viewers are losing interest in
TV News, in my opinion, they run stories that most people don't care about!, but it's bad enough that we have a constant
bombardment of these "infomercials", and while some are OK, others need to go away!
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« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 11:35:54 PM » |
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I wonder how many stations who carry "Oprah" may have to go this route after next year?
I wonder what KHOU will be doing next year. I was hoping news but KPRC cut the news to a 1/2 hour a couple years ago and KTRK is the only one left with an hour long newscast. Maybe there will be a block of the Sony TV programs (Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune) back-to-back at 4pm. Moving Jeopardy back to the afternoon might make room for Craig Ferguson to start on time (11:35 vs. the current 12:05). |
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« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2010, 05:17:31 AM » |
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Don't forget, too, that programs like "Daytime" on the Media
General stations, and "Atlanta & Company" on WXIA and
"Colorado & Company" on KUSA, are informericals disguised
as talk shows (the "Better" shows on the Meredith stations
may be as well, but I haven't seen any of them).
Since WKRG is a Media General station, does it air "Daytime"
from 9 to 10 AM?
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« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2010, 09:57:53 AM » |
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Since WKRG is a Media General station, does it air "Daytime"
from 9 to 10 AM?
Yes, but on digital channel 5-3, which has programming from the Retro Television Network. WKRG-TV has also once aired paid programming (two half-hour programs) in prime time on a Saturday night. |
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