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FOX wins: Worst big 4 Nov. ratings week EVER!

gregg75

gregg75

gregg75 said:
"X-Factor" down 28% from 2012
Top rated show: #38 "Sleepy Hollow"
"Glee" and "New Girl" floundering

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/71932/rough-week-for-fox-in-the-ratings

meanwhile FOX News is the #2 cable network
maybe they need to put some on those shows on FOX
http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/fnc...onsecutive-week-at-no-2-among-all-cable-nets/
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"Sleepy Hollow" was intended as a limited series although they have renewed it. I've gotten bored with it but they still find ways to make it entertaining for someone like me: Ichabod trying to use the Internet, complaining about inaccurate history (I hope those writers have really done their research), complaining about water. I enjoy it whenever Ichabod makes some discovery about life today that he wasn't aware of.

"Glee" is still enjoyable but they can't keep the same kids indefinitely. Sooner or later they have to graduate and I don't always like the new kids. I am glad they've found a way to keep Rachel, Santana and Kurt in the show. Santana is gorgeous.

"New Girl" made a big mistake having Nick be Jess' boyfriend. And now they've brought back Coach, who is a jerk. Add to that Schmidt's girl troubles and they've just ruined a show which was on thin ice with me anyway because Jess was really the only reason I watched.
 
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Speaking only for myself, there is nothing on Fox that I find compelling right now. I was never much of an X Factor fan. I find Zooey Deschanel cute and charming, but New Girl was never "must watch" for me, Sleepy Hollow was fun for a couple of episodes but it's just a bit too ludicrous, and I'm totally over "Animation Domination."

None of the other "Big 4" networks get much of my TV watching time these days, either, but Fox least of all.
 
This Fall, the broadcast networks' woes are made even worse by the popularity of NFL football on cable.

On Mondays, ESPN's "NFL Monday Night Football" routinely wins its time period in overall viewers and key demographics.

On November 4th, the Chicago/Green Bay "MNF" game blew away all cable and broadcast competition.

And for the broadcast nets, things could get worse this coming Monday (November 18th): The "MNF" game features red-hot Carolina hosting a strong New England club in what might be the most-watched "MNF" game this season and that some fans in both Charlotte and Boston are dare dreaming is a Super Bowl preview.

To make matters worse for the broadcast nets, the league-owned NFL Network's "NFL Thursday Night Football" telecasts, despite being available in fewer homes than ESPN, often finishes second in its time period against all cable and broadcast competition and has occasionally won its time period.

The good news is that once football is over, the broadcast networks may actually see viewing go up between February and late May. NBC could benefit due to the Winter Olympics, but with a nine-hour time difference between Sochi and New York, the only live coverage on NBC or its cable siblings will be broadcast prior to 3 P.M. EST.

NBC's Olympic prime-time coverage will be all-tape, with events delayed at least nine hours (read: figure-skating) and as many as nineteen hours (read: alpine skiing). It, in fact, will be the worst possible time difference for the Winter Games as regards American television.

The prime-time coverage won't reach as many viewers as it did four years ago (when the Winter Games were in Vancouver and about half of NBC's prime-time coverage, and about 80% of the broadcast network's entire Olympic presentation was live). Still, if Americans do win some gold medals in the sports that will be shown on tape in prime-time, that may actually boost the numbers.

For ABC, CBS, and Fox, the "home stretch" of the season (late February through May) could bring them better numbers than this Fall, again because they won't have to dodge football or (in mid-February) the Olympics.
 
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I know that in Boston, WCVB-TV virtual channel 5, is picking up the Patriots game. It's an affiliate of the ABC broadcast network, which owns ESPN. WCVB is also airing MNF on co-owned WMUR-TV virtual AND RF channel 9 in Manchester, NH. I get the impression that broadcast stations elsewhere in the US also bump network offerings for MNF. So it's not just football on cable, but also on broadcast TV that's siphoning off viewers.
 
When the Seahawks played a Thursday night game earlier this year against the Cardinals - which NFL Network is on a digital tier here (yuck!), KZJO 22 (the My Network station in Seattle) aired the coverage OTA since it was the Seattle Seahawks, after all.

-crainbebo
 
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