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Your 2018 general TV predictions (or guesses)
- Thread starter Tim from Springfield IL
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A few more, including some more sports-related but will have TV-related effects--and of course, I could be way off on most of them:
--Tonight's Golden Globe awards will be among the worst-rated in the show's history.
--In an effort to improve NFL TV ratings for the 2018 season, the league allows CBS and Fox to both show doubleheaders (other than for blackouts) on Week 1, and then as the playoff push heats up, every week starting at Week 12 (Thanksgiving weekend) until the end of the season. With consideration of adding more dual CBS/Fox doubleheader weeks in 2019 (Week 1 and maybe all of November/December).
--During all their doubleheader weeks, CBS decides to officially blow off their 8E/7C show (which right now is "Wisdom of the Crowd," which will either move to another night or return after football season--with reruns airing on weeks CBS has early singleheaders in most markets), starting "60 Minutes" immediately after football/postgame and just having a longer edition until 9E/8C (maybe as an extension of their 50th anniversary, replay some classic stories/interviews, perhaps like a "Where Are They Now?" and/or classic Andy Rooney segments in the extra time).
--The NFL announces a third wild card game in each conference (AFC and NFC), starting after the 2019 season. Only the #1 seeds in each conference will have opening playoff weekend byes, and a total of 6 wild-card games the first weekend (3 each on Saturday and Sunday--including a Sunday night game competing against the Golden Globes). Again, ratings are the main consideration.
--MLB decides to "expand" their playoffs, but only by making the wild-card play-in games a Best-of-3 series in each league, starting in 2019. The team with "home-field advantage" will actually be hosting Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) in those series. The rest of the playoff format remains as is.
--The 2018 World Series and playoffs will be among the lowest-rated. Particularly with few large-market teams ending up making the playoffs. The NL Central will be won by a team with less than 90 wins--and sadly it will not be the Cubs this season (Cubs start strong, survive the "June swoon," but go into a horrible August slump that eventually costs them the division and any playoff berth, and overtaken by the Milwaukee Brewers for the NL Central crown. Cubs will still finish above .500, however).
--Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals have their first losing record since 2007 (and only their second since 1999), but their division gets so down after the Cubs' slump that they are actually not mathematically eliminated from the division title until about a week before the end of the regular season. Also, the Miami Marlins in the NL and Detroit Tigers in the AL flirt with tying or breaking the 1962 Mets' 40-120 record and worst in MLB post-1900. I will also go on a limb and predict one of those two teams lose all of their Interleague games too.
--The World Series becomes a Fox small-market nightmare: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Cleveland Indians. In spite of these two cities' long WS droughts (Milwaukee experienced a World Championship with Hank Aaron and the Braves in 1957, but only one WS appearance for the Brewers and that was in the AL in 1982; of course Cleveland since 1948), and so much being made by Buck & Co. on Fox about those long droughts, their former American League "rivalry" (until Brewers/Selig went NL in 1998), plus both teams pulling major upsets in the playoffs (including Brewers over Nationals and Dodgers) to reach the Series. (And in spite of Fox being on VHF stations in Milwaukee and Cleveland, FWIW). And the series going the full 7 games and concluding on Halloween night. I will refrain from predicting a Series winner in this matchup.
Surprisingly, despite continued NFL ratings decline, Sunday Night Football beats World Series Game 5 in the ratings.
--Tonight's Golden Globe awards will be among the worst-rated in the show's history.
--In an effort to improve NFL TV ratings for the 2018 season, the league allows CBS and Fox to both show doubleheaders (other than for blackouts) on Week 1, and then as the playoff push heats up, every week starting at Week 12 (Thanksgiving weekend) until the end of the season. With consideration of adding more dual CBS/Fox doubleheader weeks in 2019 (Week 1 and maybe all of November/December).
--During all their doubleheader weeks, CBS decides to officially blow off their 8E/7C show (which right now is "Wisdom of the Crowd," which will either move to another night or return after football season--with reruns airing on weeks CBS has early singleheaders in most markets), starting "60 Minutes" immediately after football/postgame and just having a longer edition until 9E/8C (maybe as an extension of their 50th anniversary, replay some classic stories/interviews, perhaps like a "Where Are They Now?" and/or classic Andy Rooney segments in the extra time).
--The NFL announces a third wild card game in each conference (AFC and NFC), starting after the 2019 season. Only the #1 seeds in each conference will have opening playoff weekend byes, and a total of 6 wild-card games the first weekend (3 each on Saturday and Sunday--including a Sunday night game competing against the Golden Globes). Again, ratings are the main consideration.
--MLB decides to "expand" their playoffs, but only by making the wild-card play-in games a Best-of-3 series in each league, starting in 2019. The team with "home-field advantage" will actually be hosting Games 2 and 3 (if necessary) in those series. The rest of the playoff format remains as is.
--The 2018 World Series and playoffs will be among the lowest-rated. Particularly with few large-market teams ending up making the playoffs. The NL Central will be won by a team with less than 90 wins--and sadly it will not be the Cubs this season (Cubs start strong, survive the "June swoon," but go into a horrible August slump that eventually costs them the division and any playoff berth, and overtaken by the Milwaukee Brewers for the NL Central crown. Cubs will still finish above .500, however).
--Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals have their first losing record since 2007 (and only their second since 1999), but their division gets so down after the Cubs' slump that they are actually not mathematically eliminated from the division title until about a week before the end of the regular season. Also, the Miami Marlins in the NL and Detroit Tigers in the AL flirt with tying or breaking the 1962 Mets' 40-120 record and worst in MLB post-1900. I will also go on a limb and predict one of those two teams lose all of their Interleague games too.
--The World Series becomes a Fox small-market nightmare: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Cleveland Indians. In spite of these two cities' long WS droughts (Milwaukee experienced a World Championship with Hank Aaron and the Braves in 1957, but only one WS appearance for the Brewers and that was in the AL in 1982; of course Cleveland since 1948), and so much being made by Buck & Co. on Fox about those long droughts, their former American League "rivalry" (until Brewers/Selig went NL in 1998), plus both teams pulling major upsets in the playoffs (including Brewers over Nationals and Dodgers) to reach the Series. (And in spite of Fox being on VHF stations in Milwaukee and Cleveland, FWIW). And the series going the full 7 games and concluding on Halloween night. I will refrain from predicting a Series winner in this matchup.
Surprisingly, despite continued NFL ratings decline, Sunday Night Football beats World Series Game 5 in the ratings.
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And I will also add that there will less hype and water-cooler talk than usual about all the Super Bowl commercials this year (many of which will be panned by critics).
In what universe do the Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox not make the playoffs? I can't see the Cubs falling short, either, and watch out for the retooled Giants. Still a lot of free-agent action to come, and those big clubs can still spend. The pendulum may be swinging back to the time when big market, big money teams dominate because those clubs are now paying just as much attention to developing their own talent as the small-market teams that have made the postseason in recent years have. There are men in key positions with the Cubs, Dodgers and Red Sox who know just how that works, having been with the Rays and Marlins in the past.
Along the lines of a sports-related prediction (with obvious TV effects), regardless of what happens in this postseason, I will predict that the talk of a Tom Brady-Bill Belicheck-Robert Kraft rift in the New England Patriots organization gets more legs in the offseason and creates "so much of a distraction" and more rifts in the team that the Patriots completely miss the playoffs in 2018 for the first time in 10 years.
(Of course, many NFL fans would like to see this happen )
(Of course, many NFL fans would like to see this happen
)ESPN will get a Game on second Weekend NFL Playoff Game because NBC gets one next Weekend to and show MLB Playoff series. MLB will expand Playoff Teams to 8 each League so will NFL. Also the Champion of The NBA will play WNBA Chanpion each year All Sports will make their Divisions Geographical.
VH1 get to host a Award show. QVC will get more Male host. Some kind of Newsticker channel starts along with a YouTube channel on Cable TV.
VH1 get to host a Award show. QVC will get more Male host. Some kind of Newsticker channel starts along with a YouTube channel on Cable TV.
Streaming Shows needs it's own Awards categories at Awards shows because then like tonight Bull,NCIS,Modern Family,Superstore,CW Show,Empire,Blacklist and so on might be up for Awards. Fox a TV/Movie Award show to show.
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Netflix and Amazon have won most everything at the Emmy's.
The Yankees are probably going to win the World Series this year, The Red Sox might miss the playoffs.
That is a very likely possibility. And....as a Red Sox fan, I'm very unhappy to say so.The Yankees are probably going to win the World Series this year, The Red Sox might miss the playoffs.
I can think of two sports radio stations in Boston that are praying to whatever ratings-gods they worship for such a wind-fall of material.Along the lines of a sports-related prediction (with obvious TV effects), regardless of what happens in this postseason, I will predict that the talk of a Tom Brady-Bill Belicheck-Robert Kraft rift in the New England Patriots organization gets more legs in the offseason and creates "so much of a distraction" and more rifts in the team that the Patriots completely miss the playoffs in 2018 for the first time in 10 years.
(Of course, many NFL fans would like to see this happen
You would be hard pressed to make up material THIS juicy. If "As The World Turns" and "The Guiding Light" had material like this....Procter & Gamble and CBS-TV would never have pulled the plug!
The Yankees certainly appear loaded on paper, but as I said, the off-season has been a quiet one so far aside from the big Stanton deal. Many choice free agents are still on the market, and the many teams that are stripping their rosters to completely retool with high draft picks and top minor leaguers from other organizations (the way the Astros did) still have work to do. Keep an eye on the AL's other big money teams -- Boston, LA/Anaheim and Texas especially.
I predict David and Darlene will become respected scientists.
True given that the current demo's are going to go straight to youtube, podcasts, tunein and others to find that similar content Thiel is allegedly planning to do and its a "Pro-Trump" network.
http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/golden-globes-ratings-2018-1202656292/
Here are the ratings for "The Golden Globes"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa_News
https://www.salon.com/2017/07/16/th...rebuilt-itself-as-a-pro-trump-outlet_partner/
Correction instead this happens Circa a Sinclair owned version of Newsy gets pushed on Sinclair/Tribune subchannels in New York, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC and Baltimore.
Don't forget KC and St. Louis Newsy.
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