By: Pioneer

Pioneer — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:12:45 +0000

Ratings reduce all of television (and radio) to the lowest common denominator. Maximizing profits are all that matters in most businesses. The lowest common denominator is very, very low. Much lower than Forrest Gump and Rainman. To maximize profits, you want to cater to most people. But most people are stupid, stupid, stupid. P.T. Barn um was right. No one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
As long as the evils of capitalism persist, TV, radio, the internet, not to mention software will be stupid, stupid, stupid, just like the people they pander to.
So, what else is new?
How was Hawaii?

By: LordKaT

LordKaT — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:22:48 +0000

:(
FOX is not know to be great decision makers. They've been bit in the ass on Firefly, Family Guy, Futureama, and several other shows. They've only recently swallowed their pride with Family Guy because the money was just so much more thank their pride was worth.
I belive they follow a formula for how long a show should remain on air. I've yet to figure it out, but I'm really starting to see a pattern with the length of the show, its time slots, and advertising dollars. i belive they try to predict – strictly through mathematics – when a show should stop airing and a new one takes its place (or when a hot show swaps time spots with it).
It's a similar formula to what Broadway uses – they try to end the show one day before the daily production of the show is no longer profitable. I can prove the Broadway formula exists … though I've yet to find evidence of FOX's formula.
Maybe if we wrote our own formula, backed it up with some scientific mumbo-jumbo, and got some publicity on it, these corporate suits would end us listening to us … in a weird round-about way.
Yup, I'm tired.

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