I Agree with you about all of these ratings discussions except this year during the pandemic.
For some years now I have been posting here after every major sports or awards event that has falling ratings that gets attributed to politics or whatnot that that is mostly noise, and the signal has been a steady fall in the number of Americans watching TV. My argument has been that for these discussions what is really relevant is the percent decline in ratings, compared both to other major events that year, and to that event’s rate of decline over last decade. Almost certainly the GG ratings would have been worse this year than last year regardless, but also almost certainly not as bad as they were in this pandemic year. My prediction is that The next GG show that takes place after a mostly opened up society will have ratings higher that this year but lower than last year, roughly on the line of historical declines in ratings prior to the pandemic. On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 6:56 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 12:58 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I assert that this year's rating is the new baseline. That's the real > number of people who will tune in to watch year after year no matter the > host or nominees. Tweaks to the presentation of the show or the end of the > pandemic aren't going to bring the old number of viewers back. The reason > for this is the erosion of relevance of network TV in the current media > landscape. > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEV9joMGvxETkj5OL8p2dqB6%3D3JMWeVkfcf7jjRJWzY0w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEV9joMGvxETkj5OL8p2dqB6%3D3JMWeVkfcf7jjRJWzY0w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLC-odSRs73MUKtTik58sCrck2H5OP-7UoKfCpDK6iULw%40mail.gmail.com.
