[abb]

Missed this last week. Looks like good news to me.

[abb]

[pepsionice]

The gamers are having an effect on this. My son (21 years old) spends 40 hours a week with WOW...and I doubt if he watches more than four hours a week of any TV at all.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s the “Fed Up With Their Partisan Shilling” demographic.

It’s not just the networks losing viewers, it’s dish and cable as well.

Thanks abb.

[relictele]

TV networks are in the Self Inflicted Wound Hall of Fame.

Any show that attracts any sort of audience will immediately be deemed a hit. It will then be shifted around on the schedule until computer forensics experts couldn’t locate it. It will be pre-empted, repeated, interrupted by obnoxious on-screen ads and promos (for other shows nobody watches anyway) and generally abused by the very people who claim to be proud of it. Exasperated audience members will tune out and wait for the inevitable season-end DVD compilation which generates revenue but no ratings. Or...they will download it with all the nonsense edited out and realize that an hour long program is actually 36 min of content.

[ri4dc]

I guess there’s hope, in that the numbers are declining. I’d love to see real change, like less than 25 million total audience, or any low enough number to hasten the death of the propaganda industry. Here’s to hope and change.

[RayChuang88]

Anyone who's read Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave knew this a long, long time ago....

[Clay Moore]

[tlb]

I saw some numbers that tie into this.

From IMDB comparing the NBC program Las Vegas (cancelled in 2008) to the newer season ratings:

All numbers shown are in millions of viewers.

Las Vegas
Season 1: 11.83
Season 2: 11.42
Season 3: 10.51
Season 4: 9.0
Season 5: 8.46 (On Friday’s where shows go to die)

2011 TV Show Ratings for NBC

Their HIGHEST rated shows in 2010-2011 (as of March 27th, 2011) is:

Law & Order: SVU: 8.46
Biggest Loser: 8.32
Law & Order: LA 8.24
The Office 7.33

Lets take a closer look at The Office..
-Constant advertisement.
-Prime Slot
-Great Day (Thursday)
-A+ lead ins

... and these are their ratings.

The Office
Season 1: 5.4
Season 2: 8.0
Season 3: 8.3
Season 4: 8.0
Season 5: 9.2
Season 6: 7.8

Summary:

Las Vegas Worst Season Rating was better than ANY NBC show in 2010-11.

NBC put Las Vegas on the worst possible timeslot on the worst possible day and it today would have higher ratings than ANY NBC show.

[TomGuy]

That number is down 1.4% from the same period a year earlier, and 2.7% from two years ago.

Recently, program content decreased about 3% and advertising/commercial time increased about 3%.

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I signed up for Netflix about a year ago and my commercial TV viewing dropped by half. I do watch several of the cable originals and a few network programs. If I see a movie I might watch listed for TV, I check to see if Netflix offers it.

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I read some blurbs about new tv programs coming for the Fall 2011. Many of them are following the same ole tired, worn out scripting/themes. I have already started my list of which I think will be pulled before the 5th broadcast and which might survive the season.

[TexasFreeper2009]

the worst thing about network tv... is those stupid SEASONS! they make you wait MONTHS for you favorite show to come back on, then CANCEL it!!

It's not even worth it anymore, I only start watching series after they are completed now, because I am so tired of it at this point.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Have you looked at the crap in their lineups lately? If it’s not a ballgame or a good old movie I’m generally not interested.

[moovova]

I mean really...

You can only watch Terminator 1/2/3/4/5, Jurassic Park 1/2/3/4/5, Rocky 1/2/3/4/5, Rambo 1/2/3/4/5, Star Wars 1/2/3/4/5, X-Men 1/2/3/4/5, Alien 1/2/3/4/5, etc, so many times a week before you have to go the john and puke.

[blueunicorn6]

Who is this Oprah Winfrey?