On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> Freeing the following from the WSJ pay wall. Money quote: > > "No network has ever been as far behind financially as NBC is," Steve > Burke, chief executive of NBCUniversal, said at an analyst conference > last month. "But if we can turn the ratings," he said, "you can > imagine hundreds of millions of dollars of Ebitda coming into the > system that is NBC." > > Well, yeah, Steve. Anytime now would be great. > This really is brutal for them - I don't believe for a minute anyone there who says this is as bad as they expected it would be, it is worse. But those guys have to hang in there - they already had a weak schedule, and then lost basically a year's worth of development with the Leno experiment. They really have to think of next year as year 1, and invest in at least three straight years of developing strong content, and then see where they are at. I think one additional problem for them is that even though SNF has killer ratings on sunday night, they really paid through the nose for that package, so they probably don't make much net profit on that (I have read that their competitors thing they are losing money). I guess it would be too embarrassing, but the tvbythenumbers guys constantly note that programs that would be flat out hits on NBC are about to be cancelled on CBS. To tide them over they might want to think about taking a few scraps from the CBS table for a year or two to tide them over - though I guess that would probably not help them get much younger. If Whitney were on Fox and New Girl on NBC, I wonder if the ratings would be pretty much exactly reversed. -- 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
