Just the opposite for the College Football Championship. One on ESPN's highest rated events of any year.
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Your 2018 general TV predictions (or guesses)
- Thread starter Tim from Springfield IL
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http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/1/9/the-meredith-consolidation-in-phoenix
http://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/1/9/top-10-gm-fired
Meredith are making changes to their stations right now but all so far are unrelated to the Time Inc Deal.
Seems the College Football Championship is trying to become another Stupid Bowl (I'd have to pay for using the term "Super Bowl", right?)
With the dullness of the first half and the worthless half time show I thought for a moment I was watching this year's Stupid Bowl. Then the Dawgs defense folded during the second half allowing a second-rate Bama team to come back. I quit watching the Stupid Bowl years ago because it just flat was not a good game by any standards. Looks like I now will get a freebie Monday night in January as well from now on.
I mostly watched the game with commentary from SportsNation from LA Live but switch to ESPN Classic for the actual stadium halftime show.
So if one national championship football game doesn't satisfy your desire for thrill-a-minute action and a baby-boomer-friendly halftime show, you'll never watch another? You do know that highly anticipated and promoted sporting events don't always live up to expectations, right? But sometimes they do, and that's why fans keep coming back. For the longest time, the Super (Stupid) Bowl was plagued by dull games. Do you think the leagues and networks wanted that? Eventually, though, the law of averages came into play and we started getting exciting Super Bowls every so often. What percentage of the 16 games played on a typical NFL weekend are exciting from start to finish? That's the percentage you should be judging the Super Bowl by.
Since you obviously didn't get the meaning behind my post let me spell it out for you. The Super Bowl, for many years, was known for dull and frequently embarrassing displays of professional football. The halftime displays were mostly over-the-top Las Vegas failures designed by, and for, people who were not in the stands. The annual build up to the Big Game was stupefying and, like Star Wars, could never hope to match the hype. To me, who once was a fairly loyal NFL fan, it was no longer worth the time to watch.
It appears to me the NCAA is heading down this same sorry path.
I think if you read your post, you'll understand why. As you said, the Super Bowl was "dull and frequently embarrassing." So how do you change that? Not much you can do to the game. The game is the game. This year's game was similar to last year's Super Bowl, where the team from Georgia appeared like it was going to beat the longtime winner. At the end, they didn't. So it was in both cases a nail-biter, and the team from Georgia (Falcons or Bulldogs) ended up losing. That makes for an exciting game. Unless you're from Georgia.
Just having a national championship like this puts it in the same category as the Super Bowl. It's a game for the sake of having a game. It's an invented event, primarily for ratings and revenue. That's what it is. For the organizers, the game is secondary. So yes, they do the same hype and glitz that you get for the Super Bowl, with the same overly long halftime show. Personally I felt the halftime shows at the two semi-finals were too long too. But that's what it is. It's an invented event, where they're trying to create more excitement, in case the game doesn't match the hype.
Quick question: Do you remember the two teams who played in the Super Bowl when Justin Timberlake & Janet Jackson did the halftime show? Do you care? That's what this is about. It's TV. If you just want the sports part of it, then you probably don't feel there should be such a thing as a national championship in the first place.
Both teams were from the SEC so it didn't make a smarkle of difference to me who won. I was just looking for a decent game. This was not it. Bama didn't show up in the first half - it was a real yawner unless you had sheckles on the Dawgs. Junk half-time show made going for beer an exciting experience. Georgia didn't show up for second half. Embarrassing lay down enabled a come back by the Crimson Retard but it was only nail biting if you don't understand the game.
The only exciting thing about the game was the performance of the Bama freshman QB but then he didn't have to worry much about the Dawg's secondary, did he?
And no, I don't remember who played in the infamous Janet Jackson halftime fiasco. Don't follow the NFL. Don't watch the Stupid Bowl. And definitely don't follow Janet Jackson.
I know this doesn't relate at all to you, but I'll tell you anyway. A lot of people have parties around games like the Super Bowl and Monday's game. You could barely drive down my street Monday night because of all the parked cars at my neighbors' houses for watch parties. And I don't live in either state. It has nothing to do with who's playing. It's an excuse to get together and socialize. Same thing with the Super Bowl, and lots of similar things. I suspect that's how the producers plan the game.
The Superbowl has become an unofficial american holiday. College will never be able to compete with the hype that the Superbowl has.
I suspect you are right. Although we don't really need an excuse to party, do we? I mean, Americans have usurped St. Patricks Day, Cinco de Mayo and several other culture's national holidays. Pretty soon all we'll need is a Friday.
The College Football Playoff is only marginally better than the wire services sportswriters arbitrarily deciding a national big college champion. This year, they ranked Central Florida at number 6 even though they went undefeated and beat Auburn. Auburn by the way beat both Georgia and Alabama. Granted UCF plays in a patsy conference but you can't deny that the circumstances this year lead to this year's championship "asterisk" status.
We need at least a 16 team playoff system. It wouldn't be that hard to implement this into the existing bowls. The lesser bowls could trade off what years they'd host a playoff game, just like the major New Year's Day bowls do now.
To other TV industry predictions, Meredith finally buys a TV station in its headquarters market of Des Moines. (fat chance that)
We need at least a 16 team playoff system. It wouldn't be that hard to implement this into the existing bowls. The lesser bowls could trade off what years they'd host a playoff game, just like the major New Year's Day bowls do now.
To other TV industry predictions, Meredith finally buys a TV station in its headquarters market of Des Moines. (fat chance that)
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110261/fox-in-talks-to-buy-sinclairtribune-spinoffs
Yes part of this prediction is going to be true though.
It was Pats VS Panthers that was thrilling game Pats second Super Bowl win.
All the Pats' Super Bowl games in the Belichick era have been entertaining, although last season's waited a while to get interesting. The two losses to the Giants went right down to the wire, and the five wins (Rams, Eagles, Panthers, Seahawks, Falcons) all were close, some of them surprisingly so given how heavily favored New England was in them. I doubt this will change the haters' opinions of the team or the coach, but you must admit that this team has done its part to keep viewers interested in the climactic game of the NFL season.
Back to more mundane TV matters, 2018 might finally be the year that the Ottumwa IA -Kirksville MO and the Quincy IL - Hannibal MO DMAs merge to become Tri-States IA-IL-MO. (I did say it was mundane, didn't I?)
This would be accomplished by Quincy Newspapers acquiring FOX affiliate KYOU-TV 15 Ottumwa, in turn Quincy-owned flagship WGEM-TV 10 would place its NBC programming on a subchannel of KYOU. Sinclair already owns the other stations in each market, KTVO 3 Kirksville and KHQA-TV 7 Hannibal (CBS).
The current big 4 network line-up is: WGEM 10.1 NBC, 10.2 FOX; KHQA 7.1 CBS, 7.2 ABC; KTVO 3.1 ABC, 3.2 CBS; and KYOU 15.1 FOX. The Ottumwa-Kirksville market doesn't have an NBC outlet. After the market merge, each station would appear as a subchannel on the other co-owned station in the market.
This would be accomplished by Quincy Newspapers acquiring FOX affiliate KYOU-TV 15 Ottumwa, in turn Quincy-owned flagship WGEM-TV 10 would place its NBC programming on a subchannel of KYOU. Sinclair already owns the other stations in each market, KTVO 3 Kirksville and KHQA-TV 7 Hannibal (CBS).
The current big 4 network line-up is: WGEM 10.1 NBC, 10.2 FOX; KHQA 7.1 CBS, 7.2 ABC; KTVO 3.1 ABC, 3.2 CBS; and KYOU 15.1 FOX. The Ottumwa-Kirksville market doesn't have an NBC outlet. After the market merge, each station would appear as a subchannel on the other co-owned station in the market.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/sh...bers-Sue-Meredith-WSMV-for-Age-Discrimination
Note so far Meredith's WSMV-tv has been revealed to have age discrimination misconduct lawsuits at the time of post. But at some point other Meredith station talent will come forward and say their news director or their gm has committed age misconduct once the WSMV lawsuit is resolved. I argue that somewhere down the line once other media outlets say similar allegations against their news directors then it becomes another me too movement but for age discrimination.
Note so far Meredith's WSMV-tv has been revealed to have age discrimination misconduct lawsuits at the time of post. But at some point other Meredith station talent will come forward and say their news director or their gm has committed age misconduct once the WSMV lawsuit is resolved. I argue that somewhere down the line once other media outlets say similar allegations against their news directors then it becomes another me too movement but for age discrimination.
KCTV5 will name a Sports Director/Chief. MO Net News will launch a State TV channel and be like News Channel Nebraska. Cox will launch it's own local Weather,News,Sports channels. The Lake of the Ozarks will get it's own NBC/CBS/ABC/CW.
ESPN will name Sean McDough as Sunday Night Baseball Annoucer with a former Manager as his Play by Play Annoucer and like the Gruden Grinder will have a Baseball one. Dan Patrick will rejoin ESPN when contract is up and do a show after Scott Van Pelt's is over and main host for Sportscenter Suoer Bowl coverage.
ESPN will name Sean McDough as Sunday Night Baseball Annoucer with a former Manager as his Play by Play Annoucer and like the Gruden Grinder will have a Baseball one. Dan Patrick will rejoin ESPN when contract is up and do a show after Scott Van Pelt's is over and main host for Sportscenter Suoer Bowl coverage.
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Interesting prediction...might be Joe Girardi.
If this were to happen, I would guess the stations would still run news mainly targeted to their original area.
Also, do KHQA 7.1 and KTVO 3.2 (and KTVO 3.1 and KHQA 7.2) air the same syndicated programming?
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