sliceofscifi.com — The fan campaign to bring back ?Jericho? worked. Now CBS has a request for fans of the show?watch it when it?s on. In a story published in the New York Times, president of CBS Entertainment Nina Tassler said, because CBS finances its shows based on measures of viewership of regularly scheduled broadcasts, ?it?s of primary importance.?
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sjbdallasJun 10, 2007
To be fair, we don't ALL have to watch it live, we just need to get a ton of the nielsen families to watch it right? So if those folks would just make themselves known, maybe we can offer them free peanuts in exchange?
Closed AccountJun 10, 2007
So I guess I can;t DVR it and download the episodes or it won't count. Okay I'll put the cable box on the channel when it airs. damn way to much work, but I like the show.
thorspowerJun 10, 2007
Stop watching American Idol and watch Jericho pretty simple concept. Down with Idol Down with Idol.
dmobleyJun 10, 2007
Consumers to CBS and the rest of the Broadcast Networks both Cable and OTA:Learn to use technology, accept the idea that new technologies are not going away and that people are in fact going to Tivo your shows and not watch them live, and that you're the ones responsible for figuring out how to measure those people or make it a worthwhile thing to your advertisers or figure out a new stream of revenue. Newspapers failed to do this, and appropriately most of them will be vastly different in 10 years from now if they exist at all. Radio failed to do this, and stations and the music industry in general is now scrambling to figure out a new way to make money. Television is all that's left that hasn't so far faced doom, but my prediction is that they have no more than 5 years for the ones that stick to the 1970's business model of traditional Nielsen ratings and advertising and setting the bar on sweeps week. Despite all evidence to the contrary, the ratings don't necessarily show a true measure of anything. Allegedly nobody was watching Family Guy, or at least not enough for Fox to bother. Until 4 million people bought the show on DVD, which means that they were watching... but they weren't filling out the ratings booklets or even answering the mail request to be surveyed, answering the phone calls, etc etc. When it's a voluntary reporting system, how accurate can it be on shows that are tightly skewed towards certain groups of people? Some people are just plain less likely to give a s**t about the whole ratings process than others. So, until they find a way of compensating or adjusting to the idea that the majority of people over the next 10 years are uninterested in watching a particular show at a particular time (an obsolete idea these days to say the least)... shows are going to continue to get cancelled despite being great. Firefly and Arrested Development are a couple more blunders by Fox. Are we really sure that less people watched either of those shows, than watched Prison Break? Why can one network fail to make a profit with a show that attracts 2 million viewers (horrible for a Fox show) while another network has been running for years and would love to have any of their shows hit 2 million viewers (great for a Sci-Fi show). Cartoon Network has been rolling in the cash for a long time now based on the things that were otherwise unprofitable for other networks. Clearly there's an understanding gap and an inability of networks like CBS to properly monetize their shows. So, CBS, please understand that you're the ones that are going to have to do the adjustments. Your viewers aren't interested and it's not their responsibility to do so and if you can't figure out that they even exist, you're probably not going to last a lot longer anyway.