On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess this might matter to some people, though I would hope that > even die-hard fans of the Oscars wouldn't feel the need to formally > announce moving the show a week earlier. At least, they didn't need to > issue a press release 11 months before it happens. > > http://www.indiewire.com/article/oscars_head_back_to_february_in_2011/ > People who are not fans of the Oscars might be more interested than anyone in this, as the purpose and effect is to shorten the intolerable "awards season". Have they published any evidence that holding the Oscars earlier helps ticket sales (e.g. a film like "The Hurt Locker") may have gotten an extra week of revitalized ticket sales if the Oscars had been a week earlier (and got 2 or 3 weeks more hype perhaps than it would have compared to the old days - when my memory is it used to be the same week of the NCAA Championship Game). -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
