Re: More Sci-Fi Channel sadness....

2003-07-10 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Erik Reuter wrote:
 
 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:07:22PM -0500, Steve Sloan II wrote:
 
  I would be very interested to know how much of those ratings came from
  Stargate (their last surviving serious SF show), how much came from
  Tremors (mediocre, occasionally cute, but not evil), and how much came
  from the truly evil Scare Tactics.
 
 Laugh it up, you could be next!

You forgot to wink.

 
 (I think I will never get that out of my mind. The horrors I sit through
 just to watch Stargate!)

sigh  Well, let's just hope they don't screw up SG-SG1.  Or
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim for that matter.  It's really sad
that there's only two things worth watching even semi-regularly
any more.

-- Matt
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Re: More Sci-Fi Channel sadness....

2003-07-09 Thread Jan Coffey


--- Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 This is a good news/bad news kind of thing, good that the sci-fi channel
 has some great ratings, sad at what it was that gave them the great
 ratings (I am not including Stargate in that statement)
 
 
 SCI FI's Saturday Original Movies delivered a 1.3 average rating this
 quarter, outperforming non-original Saturday movies by 18 percent. This
 year, SCI FI became the largest producer of original movies in
 television, beating out all cable and broadcast networks, the channel
 announced.
 

2 things

1) The way TV ratings are gathered will not hit the SciFi demographic, so
going by ratings is inapropriate.

2) Even given (1) it was Stargate which did it. I still believe that pulling
Farscape was one of their biggest mistakes. Farscape was the best show on TV
since Star Trek. The rumor is that they did not want to pay what the Henson
co. was requesting. The change in managment that occured the year before
droping Farscape is directly responsible.

If you agree with these statments it wouldn't hurt to send letters to the channel.

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More Sci-Fi Channel sadness....

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Nunn

This is a good news/bad news kind of thing, good that the sci-fi channel
has some great ratings, sad at what it was that gave them the great
ratings (I am not including Stargate in that statement)



SCI FI Has Record Ratings 
he SCI FI Channel reported that it drew record ratings in the second
quarter of the year, finishing in the top 10 of all non-news cable
networks in key demographics. The ratings were the best second-quarter
prime-time ratings in the channel's history, marking a record 14th
consecutive month of year-over-year ratings growth and the longest
current prime-time growth streak in television.

SCI FI ranked in the top 10 among all non-news basic cable networks for
ratings and deliveries this quarter for persons 25-54 (0.6 rating,
sixth-place ranking, 572,000 viewers), males 25-54 (0.7, sixth place,
327,000), males 18-49 (0.6, seventh place, 310,000) and females 25-54
(0.5, 10th place, 244,000), the channel announced.

SCI FI reported its best June ever, with a 1.0 prime-time average rating
(787,000 households and 1.07 million viewers), an 11 percent increase
over the same month a year ago. Second-quarter ratings average a 0.9
household rating (728,000 households and 994,000 viewers).

The channel's SCI FI Fridays block of original programming made it the
highest-rated network on all basic cable for the night among males
25-54. The block featured the seventh-season launch of Stargate SG-1 and
new first-season episodes of Tremors: The Series and Scare Tactics.

SCI FI's Saturday Original Movies delivered a 1.3 average rating this
quarter, outperforming non-original Saturday movies by 18 percent. This
year, SCI FI became the largest producer of original movies in
television, beating out all cable and broadcast networks, the channel
announced.




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Re: More Sci-Fi Channel sadness....

2003-07-08 Thread Steve Sloan II
Gary Nunn wrote:

 The channel's SCI FI Fridays block of original programming
 made it the highest-rated network on all basic cable for the
 night among males 25-54. The block featured the seventh-season
 launch of Stargate SG-1 and new first-season episodes of
 Tremors: The Series and Scare Tactics.
I would be very interested to know how much of those ratings
came from Stargate (their last surviving serious SF show),
how much came from Tremors (mediocre, occasionally cute, but
not evil), and how much came from the truly evil Scare Tactics.
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Re: More Sci-Fi Channel sadness....

2003-07-08 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:07:22PM -0500, Steve Sloan II wrote:

 I would be very interested to know how much of those ratings came from
 Stargate (their last surviving serious SF show), how much came from
 Tremors (mediocre, occasionally cute, but not evil), and how much came
 from the truly evil Scare Tactics.

Laugh it up, you could be next!

(I think I will never get that out of my mind. The horrors I sit through
just to watch Stargate!)


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