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WHICH TV NIGHT(S) ARE A WASTE ?

In that aspect....I'm with you Gomer G. Saturday nights have gone by the way of AM radio. Younger people have video games or gaming, along with streaming video content whether it's Justin TV or Netflix. College and young adults find more entertainment at the clubs or bars or even a coffee shop with a accoustical band or musicians then staying home watching TV.For the older folks....Lawrence Welk and Jackie Gleason have been long gone, and bringing back Matt Dillon won't save it. He'll even tell you switching to Monday nights saved his butt as well. Along with 200 channels and almost 10 other alternative tech entertainment systems out there....it doesn't pay to develope Saturday Nights to be competitive for a shrinking audience. (Especially OTA).
Saturday is the night where people have the most expendable time where they have no work the next morning or they were not as tired coming home from work on Friday evenings. So they can be or will be open to doing something different then seeing what's on Prime Time Saturday nights. Plus back in the 70's, there weren't as much to do entertainment wise as you have today.
So for the men who detest the shrinking budgets on Saturday evening's....I suggest you find a girl to overcome your yearnings for Network TV.
 
gregg75 said:
So if few people ride the buses on Sunday, we might as well just not have bus service on
Sunday. You don't know what the hell you are talking about!!!!!!!
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You apparently don't know much about business. Businesses exist for one reason only - to make money. If few people ride the bus, the bus company loses money. So guess what - they cut service. Where I live in NJ they eliminated train service on Sunday because of low ridership.
 
So if nothing is on worth watching on Saturdays......seems like that would be an opportunity for
a network to DO SOMETHING and put something in place. You want to try to take advantage
of inroads. You don't want to just throw in the towel and hide behind a rock (which many of you
are suggesting).

If this keeps up.......you see what people will be watching on Saturday nights.....cable. If the
networks can't do it, cable networks will. The whole idea that nothing is on Saturday nights
because nobody is watching is complete garbage. Put something like American Idol or Dancing
With The Stars on Saturday nights and people will be watching.
 
Now I know what the saying "Denial isn't just a river in Egypt" is all about. :D

A nearly comical lack of understanding of basic business principles. Starbucks notes it quite well. The audience isn't coming back. You can put Idol or whatever you want there. It's a dead zone now, and cable doesn't waste much effort pursuing it either. Some of the premium networks did make Saturday premieres of movies a good programming stunt, but their business models are obviously different enough to be "apples to oranges" here. The basic networks do some movie premieres, but there, too, they repeat them multiple times, thereby spreading the overall expense out.

It has kept up for multiple years (it's hardly breaking news that Saturdays were largely abandoned). If someone saw a wide-open opportunity, they'd have pounced. Now, perhaps you're at home and in a TV frame of mind on Saturdays. Good for you, but you're in a far smaller crowd than used to be the case. Throwing a tantrum doesn't change the reality.
 
gregg75 said:
Put something like American Idol or Dancing
With The Stars on Saturday nights and people will be watching.
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That is true, SOME people would be watching. But not nearly as many people as would be watching on a Tuesday night. You don't put on your top show when only a portion of the total viewing audience is sitting in front of the TV. Sure there are exceptions, but most people have too many other obligations on weekends that deter them away from the tube - that's just the way it is. Nobody is going to cancel their weekend getaway or night out with friends so they can stay home and watch a TV show.
 
gregg75 said:
So if few people ride the buses on Sunday, we might as well just not have bus service on
Sunday. You don't know what the hell you are talking about!!!!!!!
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Bad analogy. Transit agencies are a public service, not a business. A few poeple do take buses on Sunday, so the transit agency must provide the service, even though its a money-loser. But I can assure you that there are a lot fewer buses on the road on Sunday than there are on weekdays.
 
It could be worse: The networks could start playing paid programming on Saturday nights! ;D
 
Markieo said:
It could be worse: The networks could start playing paid programming on Saturday nights! ;D
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You would have to find people to buy time to advertise to "no one" according to the experts on this board ::)
 
Someone may go that route, but for now, they can still make a little cash by putting low cost material there, so as long as there's profit enough to be made....you'd give up the cash flow why? And explain sacrificing the extra dollars to your bosses how?
 
I just don't buy the idea........
This is what we've been doing for awhile. No reason to try to change anything. No reason
to try to develop a Saturday night audience. You guys were probably against moving to
color TV......looks fine on my black and white......why change anything......I'm satisfied.

Go to 10 houses on Saturday night and 9 of them will have the TV on.............searching for
something halfway interesting to view.

THE END
 
You can not buy the idea the earth is round. Doesn't make it flat though.

Good luck demonstrating the absurd notion that 90% of homes are looking to watch something on Saturday night. Where your argument fails from the start is that this IS change and a reaction to reality. Pretending to make it about a reluctance regarding change is either delusional or cluelessness. Or maybe a mix of the two for good measure.
 
ep·i·logue also ep·i·log ( p -lôg , -l g ). n. 1. a.

Actually, your point is not lost you have just run across people who are void of new ideas which is why we have the same thing on the air in different packages on every form of media that exists. Heaven forbid we ever try anything new. Just keep whatever audience you can and DO IT CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP!
 
If you're too busy to watch TV, it wouldn't make much difference anyway. ::)
 
imhomerjay said:
If you're too busy to watch TV, it wouldn't make much difference anyway. ::)
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It's because I am too busy reading the snarky, smart-a$$ comments on here! :eek: :D
 
This whole Saturday night argument sounds more like a chicken-and-egg question to me. Is the dearth of good Saturday night programming due to a smaller audience because most people prefer to do something else on Saturday? Or do most people prefer to do something else on Saturday because there's nothing good on TV? With the recent economic downturn and people cutting back, one could have made the argument that it might have been a worthwhile risk to try to grow a Saturday night audience with some quality programming. The problem is, such endeavors don't have staying power. As soon as things improve, or people get tired of staying home, the audience will disappear again.

We won't see quality Saturday night programming until there's so much good content available, there's no other place to put it. Not likely to happen in my lifetime. I'm increasingly reaching the conclusion that the only TV nights that are a waste are the ones ending in "Y".
 
Drucifer said:
Actually, your point is not lost you have just run across people who are void of new ideas which is why we have the same thing on the air in different packages on every form of media that exists. Heaven forbid we ever try anything new. Just keep whatever audience you can and DO IT CHEAP! CHEAP! CHEAP!
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The point isn't lost. It was never really a point to begin with. Especially when the buses-on-Sunday analogy came around. That was a doozie! What you all are asking for is for someone to entertain you. What do the people entertaining you have to gain? Fighting with 200 channels for recognition among the small number of diehard Friday/Saturday night viewers who, surprisingly by now, haven't realized that there's not been anything on Friday/Saturday nights in 15 years?
It really has nothing to do with any of the people here or their willingness to try something new.

I know yall mean well, but dang. Drop some reality into the cauldron before you make the programming stew.

For the sake of hypotheticals, let's say we "try something new." How will you convince someone to watch it? Lots of promos and ads on those empty buses running on Sundays? :) You're going to have to go viral on the internet, and sustain it. There's no water-cooler talk on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

I'm with the "wasted tv days end in y" theory, mostly. I watch tv if I'm there, but it's been several years since I have made it a point to be there for anything specific. If I see your commercial and it says "A great new show is on Saturday nights!" I'll probably file that away with all the times I've seen that same ad for "Meet The Browns."
 
jsu5381m said:
If Saturday night is a waste, why is the Final Four on Saturday?
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So they can play the championship final on Monday night in primetime?

Not to mention that the Final Four is an annual sporting event--not the same as a regularly scheduled show.
 
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