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Oscars Ratings Drop 10 Percent From 2005
AP via Forbes.com ^
| 3/6/2006
| Lynn Elber
Posted on 03/06/2006 8:35:55 AM PST by GeneD
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To: GeneD
I've been watching the Sopranos on demand (4th and 5th seasons) in preparation of this Sunday's 6th season premier.
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:54:11 AM PST
by
Maceman
(Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
To: GeneD
How do they figure people who are Tivoing while watching another channel?
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:54:51 AM PST
by
Hildy
To: GeneD
Actually, that is pretty good considering how badly the box office has bombed in the last year.
To: dead
People can see this for what it is - Hollywood nominating films about transexuals and homosexuals and nominating best actor and actress awards to those who play those parts to tick off conservatives, Christians and Republicans. They've been doing this mean crap almost all through the Bush administration.
When they get back to awarding movies and actors and actresses for their talent and a dang fine movie, we'll get back to watching the awards. Until then, as far as I'm concerned, they can play their petty little games all they want - I enjoyed the Law & Order marathons on USA and TNT yesterday.
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:56:00 AM PST
by
3catsanadog
(When anything goes, everything does.)
To: SouthernBoyupNorth
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:56:30 AM PST
by
3catsanadog
(When anything goes, everything does.)
To: GeneD
Well, who would want to watch a bunch of ignorant, self-important twits break their arms clapping themselves on the back, anyway?
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:58:15 AM PST
by
Malacoda
(Islam=insane death cult)
To: 3catsanadog
My husband, son and I watched National Treasure and really enjoyed that movie! It came on after dinner and we never missed the Oscars.
To: Malacoda
Who would? They realized no one cared to be insulted as homophobic so they went along with sliming America as racist. Real brave of the Hollywood jet set. They are so principled.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:00:41 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: 3catsanadog
I watched some of it and actually enjoyed Stewart putting down the dems. But, I don't think the audience really got it. LOL
Oh, by the way, what is the movie Crash about? I heard nothing about it in all the pre hype.
To: GeneD
How much does a 10% drop matter in ad rates?
any pros here?
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:02:10 AM PST
by
wardaddy
("hillbilly car wash owner outta control")
To: kinghorse
Total homosexual pop. is just under 2%.
Number who have tried it is about 3% maybe?
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:08:12 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: dead
"They probably should have nominated some movies that were entertaining and that people saw."
Exactly. All five of the films nominated for best picture combined made less than the last Star Wars film. The Oscars are designed to reward people in the industry who don't have enough talent to make a movie that people actually want to see. It is put on by losers for losers.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:09:38 AM PST
by
monday
To: GeneD
No way! How could this happen?
Do I need a sarcasm tag?
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:11:50 AM PST
by
PogySailor
(CPL PogySailor coming home from Iraq in April!)
To: GeneD
'03 was a disaster primarily because
Chicago had been out the bare minimum of time for the nomination and nobody outside the critics had seen it yet. Awful weak field that year but I thought
The Two Towers had a chance.
Gangs Of New York was up as well.
It was actually quite a bit stronger a field this year I thought, but the insistent drumbeat that you will watch Bareback Mountin' and you will enjoy it, you homophobic swine, detracted from the Oscars as a whole. The artistes want to turn Hollywood into the Sundance Festival writ large but they don't want to take the corresponding cut in paycheck. And so we get a coterie of pretenders who own private jets and show up at the big show in Priuses. And so it goes.
To: Conservababe
Oh, by the way, what is the movie Crash about? Don't know what it's about, but a couple of weeks ago I think that Drudge reported the F-bombs in it upwards of 90.
To: x5452
It must not be to hard to attract mainstream viewers-29 million viewers and 40% of all TVs. That, by any measure, is a huge audience! Hollywood is still a very powerful propaganda machine.
To: Dr. Zzyzx
Oscars: A Show No One Watches That Hands Out Awards For Movies No One Saw. Brilliant!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:16:06 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Prokopton
(Yeah but Nelsen doesn't actually monitor 29 million tvs)
Its been dropping every year...
Someone has to post that declining red chart...
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:16:40 AM PST
by
x5452
To: wardaddy
Well, in general, the amount an agency pays for a spot is predicated on a guarantee of a certain audience level. Failure to achieve that rating triggers a situation where the seller must make up for the shortcoming in some way - either refunding some of the price paid or by providing for the airing of additional spots gratis - A.K.A. "make-goods".
The longer lasting effect is that the estimate for future audience goes down. Technically, that would mean that the entity buying airtime has more leverage in cost negotiations and the seller has to justify a higher cost (like taxes, the rates never go down year-to-year). To counter all of that, the network negotiating a fee to air future award telecasts - ANY award telecasts - will bargain harder.
Big Picture - Large advertisers - The GM's, P&G's, Airlines, Banks, Credit Card companies of this world have more and more reasons to put less of their ad dollars into Award shows. Makes it harder on the networks and all of this effects the Network's bottom line.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:16:57 AM PST
by
Range Rover
(Kerry is STILL a Fraud...Rather is the Court Jester)
To: GeneD
Going, going....GONE! And...good riddance
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:17:46 AM PST
by
cubreporter
(I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever know. Go Rush!)
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