PGage, to moi, in part: > The move away from Friday to T & W represents a change from this strategy - > and is something of a relatively high risk-high reward for them. They are > putting their new dramas in the slots they used to run network reruns in, > and are basically attempting to compete against the big boys at 10:00 > against the strongest the big boys have to offer (which will now include > Parenthood and SVU on NBC). This reward is that if they are successful they > will be seen as a 5th, first run, scripted entertainment network (perhaps in > some ways more successful at this than big sister NBC itself).
The Jay debacle proved a lot more than we thought... Good for them. They've been around a long time, and deserve to be in there with the OTA nets. And as Hammer notes in the last graf, they're not depending on other divisions to bail them out anymore. -- BOB
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