WHICH TV NIGHT(S) ARE A WASTE ?

[imhomerjay]

Someone may go that route, but for now, they can still make a little cash by putting low cost material there, so as long as there's profit enough to be made....you'd give up the cash flow why? And explain sacrificing the extra dollars to your bosses how?

[gregg75]

I just don't buy the idea........
This is what we've been doing for awhile. No reason to try to change anything. No reason
to try to develop a Saturday night audience. You guys were probably against moving to
color TV......looks fine on my black and white......why change anything......I'm satisfied.

Go to 10 houses on Saturday night and 9 of them will have the TV on.............searching for
something halfway interesting to view.

THE END

[imhomerjay]

You can not buy the idea the earth is round. Doesn't make it flat though.

Good luck demonstrating the absurd notion that 90% of homes are looking to watch something on Saturday night. Where your argument fails from the start is that this IS change and a reaction to reality. Pretending to make it about a reluctance regarding change is either delusional or cluelessness. Or maybe a mix of the two for good measure.

[Drucifer]

ep·i·logue also ep·i·log ( p -lôg , -l g ). n. 1. a.

Actually, your point is not lost you have just run across people who are void of new ideas which is why we have the same thing on the air in different packages on every form of media that exists. Heaven forbid we ever try anything new. Just keep whatever audience you can and DO IT CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP!

[imhomerjay]

If you're too busy to watch TV, it wouldn't make much difference anyway.   

[Drucifer]

If you're too busy to watch TV, it wouldn't make much difference anyway.   

It's because I am too busy reading the snarky, smart-a$$ comments on here! 

[dhett]

This whole Saturday night argument sounds more like a chicken-and-egg question to me.  Is the dearth of good Saturday night programming due to a smaller audience because most people prefer to do something else on Saturday?  Or do most people prefer to do something else on Saturday because there's nothing good on TV?  With the recent economic downturn and people cutting back, one could have made the argument that it might have been a worthwhile risk to try to grow a Saturday night audience with some quality programming.  The problem is, such endeavors don't have staying power.  As soon as things improve, or people get tired of staying home, the audience will disappear again.

We won't see quality Saturday night programming until there's so much good content available, there's no other place to put it.  Not likely to happen in my lifetime.  I'm increasingly reaching the conclusion that the only TV nights that are a waste are the ones ending in "Y".

[quadraphonic]

Actually, your point is not lost you have just run across people who are void of new ideas which is why we have the same thing on the air in different packages on every form of media that exists. Heaven forbid we ever try anything new. Just keep whatever audience you can and DO IT CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP!

The point isn't lost. It was never really a point to begin with. Especially when the buses-on-Sunday analogy came around. That was a doozie! What you all are asking for is for someone to entertain you. What do the people entertaining you have to gain? Fighting with 200 channels for recognition among the small number of diehard Friday/Saturday night viewers who, surprisingly by now, haven't realized that there's not been anything on Friday/Saturday nights in 15 years?
It really has nothing to do with any of the people here or their willingness to try something new.

I know yall mean well, but dang. Drop some reality into the cauldron before you make the programming stew.

For the sake of hypotheticals, let's say we "try something new." How will you convince someone to watch it? Lots of promos and ads on those empty buses running on Sundays? You're going to have to go viral on the internet, and sustain it. There's no water-cooler talk on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

I'm with the "wasted tv days end in y" theory, mostly. I watch tv if I'm there, but it's been several years since I have made it a point to be there for anything specific. If I see your commercial and it says "A great new show is on Saturday nights!" I'll probably file that away with all the times I've seen that same ad for "Meet The Browns."

[jsu5381m]

If Saturday night is a waste, why is the Final Four on Saturday?

[Nate Wesley]

If Saturday night is a waste, why is the Final Four on Saturday?

So they can play the championship final on Monday night in primetime?   

Not to mention that the Final Four is an annual sporting event--not the same as a regularly scheduled show.