CBS postpones its plans to air Michael Jackson special next week

Associated Press ^ | 11-19-03 | DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

[mhking]

You mean we're gonna miss the R. Kelly-Michael Jackson duet!?

Awwww...

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[GodBlessUSA]

this thread
LOL!!!

[river rat]

Not a chance..
Wacko Jacko is feeling so much heat...his damned nose will melt..

He's finished...finally.
The pervert millionair is in all likelihood going to lose everything that remains in his possession..

That's okay -- because he already owns the wardrobe necessary for a doorman's job or greeter at some whorehouse.....

That is assuming he exits prison in good conditon...

Semper Fi

[OESY]

The special, "Michael Jackson Number Ones," was to air next Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST, to coincide with the release of a greatest hits package.

Do you think CBS should rename the special, "Michael Jackson's High Eleven: His Greatest Hits on Young Boys"? But would it be salacious enough for the Queer Eye at CBS?

But, there's nothing like a good cigarette afterwards!

[Cicero]

Another winner for Les Moonves.

[mpreston]

They may be winning the November sweeps but that's like saying "We just captured 60% of the CD market!" as media sales go digital. Year-on-year viewership is declining. Kind of like the cell phone companies claiming all the new subscribers while saying nothing about the retention rate. Relatively hollow victories.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Schadenfreude Bump!

[Range Rover]

Michael,

Nielsen Media Research collects audience data among a specific sample of homes across the 55 "Metered" markets on a 24-7-365 basis and there is a National "NTI" number available as well. These National and Metered Market "ratings" provide only Household-level detail.

"Sweeps" - there are four "Major" ones in a year: November, February, May and July (In the same order of relative importance) - produce detail on WHO in those households is watching what across ALL 210 DMA's for those months only.

Technically, there are ratings figures available by 10 AM the following day for any broadcast...what is NOT available yet is the ratings detail for the entire sweep period. In the sweeps, Nielsen collects/estimates program performance among demographic groups....THAT level of detail is released after the sweep is over.

[Timesink]

Schadenfreude

This is the New York Times CBS Schadenfreude Ping List. Freepmail me to be added or dropped.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

If Michael Jackson goes to prison as a convicted child molester, he'll star in a very different kind of "Thriller" creatively produced by a very serious cast of inmates.

[Timesink]

CBS has not announced what will air in place of the special next week.

A CSI repeat. Bet on it.

[Terry Mross]

As Rush would say, "Hee hee hee".

[Terry Mross]

CBS had six of the top ten. That shows just how crummy network television really is.

[Political Junkie Too]

know I'd cancel ALL prior engagements just to sit home and watch Green Acres reruns.....

Somebody would complain that Arnold's a pig. No, wait... the California recall is over.

-PJ

[Yaelle]

CBS: You want us to watch? Get Grissom and Gappy-Tooth Chick together on CSI! And what happened with Grissom's hearing, anyway? He was going to have surgery last season, and this season the only thing different is his beard. Very sexy, IMO. But did the facial hair correct his hearing loss? And should a CSI have facial hair? What if it falls into the evidence? Get them together. We will watch.

[patent]

So, I wonder what Babs has to say about this censorship?

LOL. Poor, poor CBS. Make a special with a guy accused of molestation in the past and what happens? Lie down with perverts, you get perverted.

patent

[Paul Atreides]

So, let me put this into perspective: they were all ready to air a special, glorifying a child molestor (prior to this latest allegation), while at the same time, airing a miniseries that trashes the greatest president of the 20th century. Yep, no bias there!

[Timesink]

"Ooh, it's that creepy eye!"

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Despite the two cancellations, CBS is dominating the November ratings period."

Cite? Ratings? Link? No, the article provides no data BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY YET. We're still IN the sweeps period - you get the ratings after the sweep is over. This little gratuitous sentence is whole fiction and has no place in the article

They are winning the rationgs night to night per say...so if they win the majority of the nights then they will most likely win sweeps ratings come in night to night....

[tubebender]

Despite the two cancellations, CBS is dominating the November ratings period.

That's not saying much for current programing. (that's coming from someone waiting for Rowan and Martin to return)