On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...the continuing TV-biz ignorance of Saturday nights... > > 101 million viewers is nothing to sneeze at...
And that's how I've felt about the 1:35 a.m. timeslot, too. Putting Carson Daly on at 1:35 is the safe route. Back when I was a page and actually talked to the network executives, I recall Don Ohlmeyer saying he wanted to use that late night timeslot to develop edgy material (at the time, "South Park" was new and exciting and generating a lot of buzz). But neither he nor anyone else has done anything with the time period. College students, a heavily desired demographic, settled with Adult Swim for the simple reason there was nothing else on, and Cartoon Network made a good chunk of change from it, so I know the idea isn't a bad one. Related to this, I still maintain Fox won't be a full-fledged network until they program three hours of prime time a night (along with an early evening national newscast) and push the local newscast back an hour. I know the affiliates would whine, but that move would open up five hours of prime time a night (and one more major player on the field would absolutely kill "The Jay Leno Show"). -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
