CBS Pulls Person Of Interest and Elementery

[EddieTheRapFan]

If people choose not to have cable or satellite (and apparently Internet, as well), that's their choice. They are a small percentage of the population. Why should TV schedules be disrupted for them? It's curious that some are so concerned about the "needs" of "cord cutters," but not with those of DVR users, who depend on having accurate schedule information in their boxes.

Not everyone can afford those. Do the needy deserve to be left with no information just for being poor? ???

 

[FredLeonard]

Not everyone can afford those. Do the needy deserve to be left with no information just for being poor? ???

Are the "needy" left with no information? Really? In 2005, the Census Bureau reported 63.7% of poor households had cable or satellite. People are "needy" for a reason. I doubt if news is their programming of choice. If any want information, newspapers are available for free at public libraries, assuming they can read.

For the record, CBS said they were going to do an hour long news special preempting Vegas. Instead they kept going for two hours, right though Hawaii Five-O. They didn't even stick to their revised that morning schedule. Repetition, chit-chat, speculation, public reaction, unfounded gossip - take a break and then repeat. Very little "information."

Cord cutting and on-demand is looking better all the time.

 

[Rube Dali the DodoHorse]

Fred, I've got news for ya, and it isn't pretty on your end. If you think you've got a solution to this so-called "problem", well I'm sorry to inform you that you have no solution to the problem; you are the problem.

 

[Mark Giardina]

With all of the crawl screens on TV these days one would have thought CBS would have notified viewers that "Vegas" was going to be aired the following night.

 

[FredLeonard]

With all of the crawl screens on TV these days one would have thought CBS would have notified viewers that "Vegas" was going to be aired the following night.

Which is fine if you go to watch the show before it airs the following night. Nielsen counts viewing within three days and within seven days, so apparently a fair number of people aren't watching recorded shows in less than 23 hours.

Nielsen counts DVR viewing. Networks are happy to include them when selling spots. I've read a few shows on the bubble, which didn't do that well with live viewers, were saved when the network realized it was picking up delayed viewers.

It is one thing for networks to interrupt programming when something is (present tense) happening now. It's another for them to change the schedule at the last minute for a re-cap five days later - a change made too late to be reflected in DVR on-screen program guides. We can disagree on how much networks should preempt for spot news and how well they cover spot news. But this shows a complete disregard for viewers expecting to have certain shows recorded at a certain time.

Networks seem oblivious to the fact that the media landscape has changed and an increasing portion of their audience is not going to see a show for a day, or three, or seven or more. And that their ability to see a show (and more importantly, the spots in it) comes from their boxes getting correct schedule information. The networks must know - or can find out - at what point a schedule change will not reach DVRs in time and not make schedule changes after that (I said "schedule changes," as distinct from preempting programs because something is happening now).

 

[vchimpanzee]

CBS is the network that cut into the season cliffhanger of Dallas so they could show Dan Rather being ordered to leave China. They got so many complaints they had to repeat the episode.

If that's the episode I'm thinking of, what was happening in China was even better than the show.

But I'm mad about NBC changing the time for "Smash" at the last minute. My TiVo had it listed at 9. the previous week TiVo had it correctly listed at 8.

I hate going to the library to see TV episodes. And it was a good one.

No, my Internet at home is not fast enough for watching TV. And I don't have sound here. I wouldn't want to be annoyed by it, for one thing. Just the pleasant humming of a fan.

 

[dtuba]

Not everyone can afford those. Do the needy deserve to be left with no information just for being poor?  ???

Are the "needy" left with no information?  Really?  In 2005, the Census Bureau reported 63.7% of poor households had cable or satellite.  People are "needy" for a reason.  I doubt if news is their programming of choice.  If any want information, newspapers are available for free at public libraries, assuming they can read.

For the record, CBS said they were going to do an hour long news special preempting Vegas.  Instead they kept going for two hours, right though Hawaii Five-O.  They didn't even stick to their revised that morning schedule.  Repetition, chit-chat, speculation, public reaction, unfounded gossip - take a break and then repeat.  Very little "information."

Cord cutting and on-demand is looking better all the time.

They won't miss you, either.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Are the "needy" left with no information? Really? In 2005, the Census Bureau reported 63.7% of poor households had cable or satellite. People are "needy" for a reason. I doubt if news is their programming of choice. If any want information, newspapers are available for free at public libraries, assuming they can read.

Yeah, that's very useful for breaking news.