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TV-Related Predictions for 2020

seatownmedia said:
Ellen announces last season of syndication in 2020. She will maintain her nbc prime time specials.
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Ellen is smart to bail before her show hits bottom and starts to dig. It's better to get out while on top, but afternoon talk show numbers have been in accelerating rate of decline for the past two years, the top has already passed.
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://youtu.be/LBdjxx_IX1M

? Interestingly Fox Sports uses the old NBA on NBC theme for College Basketball games. I swear I always think of Michael Jordan and the Bulls in the NBA finals when I hear this song.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2VhcG5FI9w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJcHhqZ6ccM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REoF_wAhBx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXJHCD7koY

And I always think of the Shaq/Kobe era of the LA Lakers when the NBA on NBC theme is used plus Olympic Basketball playoffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfsvi8kKQY
 
Fox will drop to 5th or 6th and 3 or 4 of their garbage shows will get canceled at the end of the season.

This is a prediction that is 2 to 3 1/2 years down the read currently there like 8 wrestling programs on tv wrestling shows are doing decently right now when the cool newness wares off again about 4 or 5 shows will get canceled and WWE will be down to 1 2hr show and 1 1 hr NXT will get canceled.

XFL will be a flop it makes it 1 1/3 season then it is done.

I see Hannity getting in trouble for a comment he will make no more than 100 days before the election they fire him and there ratings will tank they will have nobody big left to bring in decent ratings.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Thoughts? Don’t dip into the eggnog.

20/20 making a deal of the year? No. A second night full time? No. Other periodic time-filler plugging in? Already happens.
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Agreed. First, too obvious. Second - "the title "20/20" is a reference to good (20/20) vision, and has nothing to do with this year. Also because "second nights" of news magazine shows don't seem to ever work out, as with "60 Minutes 2" or whatever it was called.

Along those lines...being a car buff, I was thinking back in 2002, BMW should come out with an updated version of the "2002" model, the car that put BMW on the map - at least in North America. In my vision - it would have a boxy body, as did the original 2002 in the 1970's, but would otherwise probably just be a re-branded 3 series....what the critics call "badge engineering." So it would be inexpensive for the company to do that, and they would probably sell quite a few based on the nostalgia factor. Remember that this was a time when cars were "going retro" - like the retro looking Mustang, the retro 2 seater Thunderbird, and some others.

But did BMW take up my brilliant marketing idea? Nope.
 
LKellerIII said:
Agreed. First, too obvious. Second - "the title "20/20" is a reference to good (20/20) vision, and has nothing to do with this year. Also because "second nights" of news magazine shows don't seem to ever work out, as with "60 Minutes 2" or whatever it was called.
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"20/20" sometimes has a second episode on Saturday.
 
vchimpanzee said:
"20/20" sometimes has a second episode on Saturday.
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Saturday? I haven't watched - are they new stories, or just repeats? I ask because Saturday night prime-time has become TV's graveyard, and reruns are the SOP.

To me, reruns don't count. 60 Minutes 2 and the various days of Dateline NBC ran new stories, even if half of them were To Catch a Predator.

Some cable networks run repeats of news mag shows too, but I doubt count those as "second episodes" either.
 
LKellerIII said:
Saturday? I haven't watched - are they new stories, or just repeats? I ask because Saturday night prime-time has become TV's graveyard, and reruns are the SOP.
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I only know what I read in the lists of most-watched network shows.

Here are a few samples. Most of them are labelled as reruns, although I've known this site to make mistakes.

https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-may-18-2019/
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-may-25-2019/
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-june-1-2019/
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-december-14-2019/
https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/tv-ratings-saturday-dec-28-2019/
 
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News magazines have become another category of show that gets run on Saturday nights, whether it's new or repeats. CBS has 48 Hours and NBC has Dateline at times.
 
Saturday prime time has been mostly irrelevant for the networks (besides college football and maybe Cops when it was on FOX) since the days of Walker, Texas Ranger some 25 years ago. The last show to grab a top 10 Nielsen ranking on Saturday night was NBC's Empty Nest in 1990-1991, at #7. Nearly 30 years ago! The same year, The Golden Girls was #10.
 
The Stand Alone Apps for the YES Network and the very soon to be renamed Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket shoud be just around the corner. Sinclar declined the two latter for YouTube TV Renewal which has me predicting this is the market Sinclair wants to launch first.
 
Never imagined that when I started this thread that we would be dealing with the coronavirus outbreak and its effects on all aspects of life.

I'm now going to predict that the coronavirus outbreak and the indefinite suspension/cancellation of sports schedules will result in at least one all-sports network (one of the cable networks, or even the Stadium netlet) being shut down and/or re-branded to a non-sports format.

Also, the coronavirus outbreak will result in an indefinite suspension of the rest of the repacking process.
 
Tim from Springfield said:
Never imagined that when I started this thread that we would be dealing with the coronavirus outbreak and its effects on all aspects of life.
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I can add that it will change the APPEARANCE of TV programming as we know it. We've become used to watching TV done in studios with groups of people. That will be changing in the coming days as social distancing becomes the norm, and people do their TV shows from home, guests appear on TV shows from home, or regular TV programming airs repeats, as is the case for nightly talk shows. My expectation is that once people get used to this, it may continue for certain shows after the virus is under control.
 
TheBigA said:
I can add that it will change the APPEARANCE of TV programming as we know it. We've become used to watching TV done in studios with groups of people. That will be changing in the coming days as social distancing becomes the norm, and people do their TV shows from home, guests appear on TV shows from home, or regular TV programming airs repeats, as is the case for nightly talk shows. My expectation is that once people get used to this, it may continue for certain shows after the virus is under control.
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Yes and YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo and Dailymotion has been doing shows from home for nearly 15 years but that was done by smaller independent production operations where the show is done at the home. But this time it's the big production companies doing this In the home or a separate studio.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Yes and YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo and Dailymotion has been doing shows from home for nearly 15 years but that was done by smaller independent production operations where the show is done at the home. But this time it's the big production companies doing this In the home or a separate studio.
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I'm watching Newsy right now, and while it looks different from the larger news channels, it does do the job.
 
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