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Will the Price is Right make 75 years.
- Thread starter Don CT
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as long they have cars and trips to give away, and contestants are willing to the pay the high CA taxes on the prizes
Depends on how TV content delivery and viewer tastes change and evolve. As long as older folks still want to watch this game show at midday on CBS, the show continues to get decent ratings and brings in ad dollars, then sure, it'll most probably stick around for several more years.
Which is possible, considering that Gen Xers and millenials of today will be senior citizens in 2047, and likely retired and able to watch the show at midday. And would become part of most of TPIR's current advertising base (elderly products, life and burial insurance, reverse mortgage, Medicare, etc.). These were likely the same people that grew up watching Bob as kids (especially during school vacations and sick days), scheduled their college classes around TPIR so they could watch the show, and probably still watch it on days off work (and probably could be contestants on the show too).
Will CBS still be at Television City by then?
This was the entire problem with the Barker era. Another quarter century is hard to predict, but there’s little reason to believe there’s going to be a sudden turnaround that makes old audiences valuable to many advertisers.
The current network>>>local station distribution model is probably going to fall apart in the next 10-15 years. If TPIR exists in 2047, it won’t be on what we currently know as broadcast TV.
The question is whether the inhabitants of planet Earth will even make it to the year 2047. TPIR is about #500,000 on the priority list. Will we be in a catastrophic nuclear war by then, thanks to superpower China and allies North Korea and Russia?
Who knows what the world will look like in 5 years let alone 25.
Who knows what the world will look like in 5 years let alone 25.
That's what we thought would happen back in 1981. We're still here.
And things are much worse now
That's one way to have your pet spade or neutered.
the contestants are young, college students have always skipped class to watch it, but they've always been undercounted by Neilsen also
and a few have probably setup Zoom loops to watch the show also
I know this is the 50th season, but it's still early for the actual 50th anniversary, since the show started in Sept. 1972.
In any case as long as the show gets good ratings it will continue. I can see it going for at least 60 years.
Also, 2023 will be the 50th anniversary of The Young and the Restless.
In any case as long as the show gets good ratings it will continue. I can see it going for at least 60 years.
Also, 2023 will be the 50th anniversary of The Young and the Restless.
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Network Daytime TV's 3 longest running programs...General Hospital 59 years Days of Our Lives 57 years, The Price is Right 50 years...this is outside of the morning shows (Today Show, etc ).
"Meet the Press".
I thought the 50th anniversary show was well done. Bob Barker has had health issues for years. He is 98 years old.
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