JeeperOne
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For Primetime - YES (Along with Hulu). For Daytime - NO as they have no Daytime to speak of like The CW (Sort of) does
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NBC Considers Cutting Back Programming Hours in Prime Time
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JeeperOne
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ABC News Live already airs 20/20
JeeperOne
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You can still buy them at the Customer Service counter of the grocery store & at the door of 7-11 too
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But only certain shows though
Plus, don't forget some ESPN also uses ESPN+ for some of its shows too
True but still Paramount management for some time has been in the process of boosting viewers over to the Paramount+ app. Also the CBS and CW affiliates owned by Paramount are inside the Paramount+ app and the CBS News app. Yes that 10pm hour part is a negotiating ploy with CBS affiliates not owned by Paramount.
Here is another one and it's about addressing lowering the median demos for their owned and operated apps.
I haven't seen a "paper boy" in at least a few decades. Kids are a lot busier these days than they once were, with many more extracurricular activities to involve themselves in, and many simply have no interest. Back in the day, delivering papers used to be "good money" for teenagers or younger, but all things considered, it's just not nearly as attractive as it used to be. As others have mentioned, most of these "kid on a bike" routes were taken over by adults who had several "motor routes" for a given newspaper and deliver by car.
Regarding the coin boxes, they often got damaged or vandalized, they needed to be maintained and there was often nothing to stop someone from putting their $$ in and grabbing 3 or 4 papers if they wished to. Also, fewer people carry coins than once did. It's also a case where, my local sunday rag went from $1.50 years ago to something like $3.75 now. Who carries $4 in quarters so they can get a Sunday paper?? Above all, though, I think news companies were trying to reduce costs however/wherever possible. Newspapers were expensive to print, there was usually a lot of waste and "spoilage" with a number of papers left unpurchased in most vending machines and on newsstands each day, and it was in everyone's best interest to try and move readership to the internet and apps. Where I live, you can buy a month's subscription to their online news for less than the cost of 1 Sunday print edition - and you can either read it online in the same format and layout as a traditional printed newspaper, or in a more standard web-based news site format.
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Around 1989 or so in the Phoenix metro a papergirl was kidnapped and murdered while on her paper route. Both newspapers at the time got rid of children's paper routes and went with motorized routes by adults. It has been a long while since I've seen papers being delivered in my neighborhood. We do get two local "freebie" fish wraps weekly however. You can still buy a paper at most grocery stores and convenience stores or access the digital version online.
I haven't taken the paper in several decades. "Yesterday's news tomorrow"
There are barely any afternoon newspapers left (if there are any). It was a lot easier for a kid to have a newspaper route and deliver papers after school than at 5, 6 or 7 AM for a morning newspaper
While I think NBC's affiliates would embrace getting the 10/9 hour, I still wonder why no U.S. network has a 10 PM national newscast (I'm thinking broadcast, not CNN, Fox News Channel, or MSNBC). I've always said that if I could start my own network that would be the time for my newscast. When I consider that "The National" on CBC traditionally beats the other Canadian networks as well as U.S. shows coming across the border...
Of course, part of the reason is rooted in network radio. Radio networks did most of their newscasts in the early evening (ABC and Mutual did have some after 10, and Gabriel Heatter was on Mutual at 9); the exceptions to the rule were shows like "Amos 'n' Andy" and "The Lone Ranger." When television came along, the networks followed their radio precedents. But this isn't 1948. A lot of people may not even be home before 7....but then again, Douglas Edwards and John Cameron Swayze were on between 7:30 and 8 and there might still be network news at that time if ABC had not been so successful with kids' shows like "Disneyland," "The Lone Ranger," and "Rin Tin Tin" at 7:30. I would not object to a network giving back 6:30 and moving the news to 10. But I'm dreaming. There's too much revenue for affiliates if they get 10/9 back. Just ask my local Fox station, WGHP.
Of course, part of the reason is rooted in network radio. Radio networks did most of their newscasts in the early evening (ABC and Mutual did have some after 10, and Gabriel Heatter was on Mutual at 9); the exceptions to the rule were shows like "Amos 'n' Andy" and "The Lone Ranger." When television came along, the networks followed their radio precedents. But this isn't 1948. A lot of people may not even be home before 7....but then again, Douglas Edwards and John Cameron Swayze were on between 7:30 and 8 and there might still be network news at that time if ABC had not been so successful with kids' shows like "Disneyland," "The Lone Ranger," and "Rin Tin Tin" at 7:30. I would not object to a network giving back 6:30 and moving the news to 10. But I'm dreaming. There's too much revenue for affiliates if they get 10/9 back. Just ask my local Fox station, WGHP.
Another reason why newspapers are no longer delivered by kids is that there just aren't enough subscribers any more for that delivery model to be viable. When I was a teenager, I delivered the "Tacoma News Tribune" in my local neighborhood and the overwhelming majority of single-family homes along my route subscribed (apartment dwellers were another matter, but my route was mostly single-family homes, with just a couple of apartment buildings). Now, you'd be lucky to deliver to one out of ten homes. That means that a route that would have once had 70 subscribers would now have maybe 7. For it to be enough money to be worth doing, the route would have to get much larger...and there comes a point where you can't do it on a bicycle or on foot.
In Britain, both BBC-1 and ITV run their major evening TV newscasts at 10 P.M. local time.
We have local News at 10pm
We know that, but the topic is national OTA TV newscasts.
Sorry I misread it. That would make since for nbc as they have today now nbc news daily for the afternoon and nbc nightly news for a pre-primetime newscast they could air a NBC Late News broadcast after local news at 9:30 after the news if they bump the late night shows up half an hour. Or if they air an hour news cast then NBC Late News at the 11/10c and keep the late night shows at the same time.
That be nice I miss when abc and CBS had syndicated programming back in the day. Our abc channel mostly aired reruns of Mash and Cheers while our cbs station aired reruns of Bob Newhart, Magnum P.I. and The Jeffersons.
Here is more on Peacock getting deals with non-Comcast owned NBC affiliated
NBC can let their stations air reruns and/or late night movies and get higher ratings than both the Tonight show and that other late night show.
Just announced that NBC will continue to program the 10PM hour:
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