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As A Result Of The WGA Strike, Could We See.....

JeeperOne

JeeperOne

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Hi everyone:

I've been thinking (I know....It's a potentially DANGEROUS thing to do :D).

With the WGA strike on, might we see the following from each network....

NBC

* NHL On NBC beginning before the end of Football season (Like on Monday Night?)

CBS

* College Basketball coverage during primetime hours starting from the very beginning of the season

ABC

* NBA On ESPN On ABC beginning before Christmas (READ Monday Night Basketball anyone?)
* Any College Basketball coverage which conflicts with College Football bowl games on any ESPN channel which cannot be moved to other ESPN channels INCLUDING ESPNEWS and ESPN Classic.

FOX (And maybe MyNetwork TV as well)

* Most anything from FSN that isn't a major LIVE sporting event (Except for College Football)
* Special shows from FOX News and/or FOX Business Channel

The CW

* Anything produced by TNT Sports
* Best Of Larry King reruns

Mind you, I'm just scratching the surface here. Feel free to add to either or all of the lists as you see fit. I predict this strike will last FOR MONTHS on end.

But what do I know? I'm just your average, ordinary couch potato TV viewer :D
 
It's pretty much a given that the networks will be leaning a bit more on their news and sports divisions to fill the holes down the road.

I wouldn't expect any NHL games on Mondays (or Tuesdays for that matter); doesn't Versus have those nights to themselves?

How about other ESPN programming making its way onto ABC? Maybe a little PTI in primetime, unearthing Cheap Seats from the 2am slot on Classic, or any of the thousands of hours of original stuff that could be streamed from the Bristol playout servers to the network uplink.
 
The broadcast networks can also take non-sports programming from their cable nets.

A&E has a few that can easily fill a void (ABC and NBC can flip a coin for them):
-The First 48
-Cold Case Files
-American Justice
-City Confidential.

NBC
-The 4400
-Burn Notice
-Monk
-Snapped

ABC
-Kyle XY
-Greek
 
JayR said:
The broadcast networks can also take non-sports programming from their cable nets.

NBC
-The 4400
-Burn Notice
-Monk
-Snapped
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Don't forget NBC also "owns" Bravo as well.
 
Hi everyone:
JayR said:
The broadcast networks can also take non-sports programming from their cable nets.

A&E has a few that can easily fill a void (ABC and NBC can flip a coin for them):
-The First 48
-Cold Case Files
-American Justice
-City Confidential.

NBC
-The 4400
-Burn Notice
-Monk
-Snapped

ABC
-Kyle XY
-Greek
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You're forgetting one thing Jay.

Except for the stuff on A&E, much (if not ALL) of the stuff you mentioned above is written by THE SAME writers who are currently on strike. As such, it wouldn't make much sense for NBC & ABC to USE on it (Much less less rely on it) at all to get them through the strike. No sense at all.

Cheers :D
 
Pat Cook said:
Hi everyone:
JayR said:
The broadcast networks can also take non-sports programming from their cable nets.

A&E has a few that can easily fill a void (ABC and NBC can flip a coin for them):
-The First 48
-Cold Case Files
-American Justice
-City Confidential.

NBC
-The 4400
-Burn Notice
-Monk
-Snapped

ABC
-Kyle XY
-Greek
Click to expand...
You're forgetting one thing Jay.

Except for the stuff on A&E, much (if not ALL) of the stuff you mentioned above is written by THE SAME writers who are currently on strike. As such, it wouldn't make much sense for NBC & ABC to USE on it (Much less less rely on it) at all to get them through the strike. No sense at all.

Cheers :D
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They could rebroadcast cable's past season episodes that have never aired on the major networks. ABC did it a few years ago with Monk after USA aired it. Some people who don't have cable have never seen those episodes unless they see them in syndication. Many of these show have not seen syndication yet.
 
BINGO!

tlyle said:
Pat Cook said:
Except for the stuff on A&E, much (if not ALL) of the stuff you mentioned above is written by THE SAME writers who are currently on strike. As such, it wouldn't make much sense for NBC & ABC to USE on it (Much less less rely on it) at all to get them through the strike. No sense at all.
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They could rebroadcast cable's past season episodes that have never aired on the major networks. ABC did it a few years ago with Monk after USA aired it. Some people who don't have cable have never seen those episodes unless they see them in syndication. Many of these show have not seen syndication yet.
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Thank you tlyle.
 
Hi everyone:

I still wonder if there's a connection between any of this and the sudden disappearance of 24 from the A&E schedule though. Seems TOO MUCH of a "coincidence" if you ask me....

Cheers :D
 
The sports thing isn't as simple as it seems. The other networks that hold rights on different days--be they regional sports channels or cable networks--won't be all that inclined to help out the broadcasters at their own expense. Where those other channels have any exclusivity, why would they give up what could be a ratings boom to them?
 
I've heard rumors that NBC-Universal has told folks from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that they could be a programming option if the strike lasts long enough. I don't know how that'd work, but since NBC already gives the WWE two clearances for "Saturday Night's Main Event", one cheap idea might include simulcasting "Monday Night Raw" when it airs live on USA. And staying on NBC for a moment, Howie Mandel probably shouldn't plan any long vacations...

Pat--to your point about using the scripted cable shows written by striking writers--I doubt that would make much of a difference. None of that will be 'new' material anyway. The networks and the cable channels will be spinning re-runs regardless of who wrote it. They own the rights to air those show and will likely be required to compensate everyone just as if no walkout had taken place.
 
Hi everyone:
Nate Wesley said:
I've heard rumors that NBC-Universal has told folks from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that they could be a programming option if the strike lasts long enough. I don't know how that'd work, but since NBC already gives the WWE two clearances for "Saturday Night's Main Event", one cheap idea might include simulcasting "Monday Night Raw" when it airs live on USA.
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Better yet, I can see them temporarily moving Monday Night RAW to NBC and have USA Network carry reruns of Law & Order (READ The EARLY episodes in the PRE Sam Waterston days).

Cheers :D
 
Why not unlock the vaults and fill those slot with movies?? NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS should just do movies every night where there is a hole to fill. I'd watch that.... Is there any way that tomorrow this strike could be over?
 
Pat Cook said:
Hi everyone:
Nate Wesley said:
I've heard rumors that NBC-Universal has told folks from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that they could be a programming option if the strike lasts long enough. I don't know how that'd work, but since NBC already gives the WWE two clearances for "Saturday Night's Main Event", one cheap idea might include simulcasting "Monday Night Raw" when it airs live on USA.
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Better yet, I can see them temporarily moving Monday Night RAW to NBC and have USA Network carry reruns of Law & Order (READ The EARLY episodes in the PRE Sam Waterston days).

Cheers :D
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TNT has the rights to the entire Law & Order:TOS (ha ha) library at the moment. So they could go into heavy reruns of SVU or CI if NBC decided to move WWE to the mothership.

Oh wait...USA already runs heavy rotation on SVU and CI repeats. Heh.
 
...but USA has scrapped "Dead Zone" and "The 4400", so I'm not sure they ll show up on NBC....

then again....

and unless the public gets sick of Vince McMahon..RAW stays on USA especially with the MNF ending it season...not that it was worth watching anyway


and the potential is there for RAW to take a dive.., given the fact it appears they are picking up Vinces insanity bit again...the angle they used when the limo blew up....and will go down a different...probably weirder route...
 
TNA's first network special on Fox, anyone???? I could see them take Mad TV's slot on late night Saturdays (just like how WWE's Saturday Night's Main Event was SNL's filler show).

Jonathan Allen
 
The last time there was a writer's strike, Paramount Television filmed new episodes "Mission:Impossible in Australia. They brought back Peter Graves and several of the old scripts and re-shot them with new actors (Greg Morris came back for one episode, with his role taken over by his son).

Maybe there are some other old series that could recycle scripts, too.
 
"Star Trek: The Next Generation" recycled scripts written back in 1977 for the aborted "Star Trek: Phase II" series during the last strike.

The problem is that there aren't many "legacy" series like that right now, with a lot of old storylines to pull from, and with cable networks rerunning old series and others available on DVD, the wholesale recreation of old scripts like with "Mission: Impossible" wouldn't go over as well as it did in 1988.

Heck, if "reality" programming is really the answer, why not have NBC and Schlatter revive "Real People?"
 
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