On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *The Voice* didn't try to capitalize... it couldn't. > > Blake Shelton's contract says he's allowed to attend awards shows that > involve himself and/or wife Miranda Lambert... Wednesday brought the > Country Music Association Awards, at which Shelton won album of the year > and both were feted as top vocalist in their respective genders. > > http://www.thewrap.com/voice-x-factor-hit-time-lows-thursday-comes-asterik/ > I have a few nits to pick with the linked article: 1. It states that the main reason for The Voice moving to Thursday this week was so Blake could collect his hardware. Perhaps - but NBC has been planing this since at least they cancelled "Welcome to the Family" on October 18 - when they announced they would be airing The Voice on Thursday, November 7 (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/18/welcome-to-the-family-canceled_n_4124848.html). Now, perhaps they were going to do this anyway, even had they not cancelled WTTF, but there was nothing last minute about it. 2. The article implies that there is room for some debate within NBC about whether moving The Voice was a good thing for them. This seems unlikely to me, for at least three reasons: a. 16.6 million people watched the CMAs (I was not one of them) - even if they never mentioned the singing competition show by name, anytime Blake Sheldon is featured in such a manor, it is better than several free network commercials for The Voice - and on a rival network too. And it feeds the credibility Sheldon already has as a legit recording star and concert ticket seller, which helps the show. What can be bad about that for NBC? b. While the Thursday Voice ratings were lower than what they would have been on Wednesday, as the article itself notes they were higher than anything else NBC has had on Thursday all Fall. I think they were hyping the MJF show pretty hard, and I am sure they are happy to use the Voice to pump its Thursday night shows a little in the way they have been doing the M-T (and now W) shows. c. Sheldon has expressed some irritation that his contract has committed him to doing two runs of The Voice per year, which has cut into his concert schedule. Cee Low and Miss Thing got a break last spring, but so far he and Adam have not (I am assuming they will give them both a break this spring, but maybe not). Making this schedule change for him is a small price to pay to try to make him a little happy. I doubt there has been any debate inside NBC about whether this move was worth it. BTW - I have been watching some early season 2 episodes of Revolution On Demand today; NBC is still running that commercial with the stars of its 4 Thursday sitcoms, encouraging us to watch them, including the long cancelled "Welcome To The Family". So far the episodes I have been watching were originally aired before the cancellation, but I thought they were able to substitute in different commercials for the On Demand than what they use during original broadcast, and it seems like a waste to keep using this particular ad. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
