Originally posted by filmkr27: Is anyone else mad or puzzled why Fox is holding 24 back for a full year? Why not air it in the fall? Doesn't this mean that this show will always be one year behind?
Baseball.
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Originally posted by Zitrone: Lost was actually great tonight, minus the dying-mother scene. Or maybe the strike lowered my standards.
I didn't think this episode was as good as the first three, which is not a bad thing since the first 3 episodes have been 10/10 episodes for me whereas this was more like 7/10. But still pretty good for a Kate centric episode. The bombs/twists at the end of last two episodes have been great... M. Night Shyamalan take a lesson.
Originally posted by filmkr27: Is anyone else mad or puzzled why Fox is holding 24 back for a full year? Why not air it in the fall? Doesn't this mean that this show will always be one year behind?
Baseball.
It is not b/c of baseball. FOX actually does not have that much baseball in the postseason anymore. It is b/c they like to run the episodes 24 straight through, and starting in the fall would not allow that. Networks generally run repeats around the holidays.
Originally posted by filmkr27: Is anyone else mad or puzzled why Fox is holding 24 back for a full year? Why not air it in the fall? Doesn't this mean that this show will always be one year behind?
Baseball.
It is not b/c of baseball. FOX actually does not have that much baseball in the postseason anymore. It is b/c they like to run the episodes 24 straight through, and starting in the fall would not allow that. Networks generally run repeats around the holidays.
Exactly. Sports are slowly making way to cable.
Posts: 2339 | Location: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: 27 January 2007
In fact, just today (or actually yesterday) there was a Tribune article stating that the Cubs are moving more games to cable and are only televising 63 games this year, a record low. Why? Because their rights fees are higher on cable than on WGN, and of course - so it won't conflict with CW programming. With the poor ratings CW has, you'd think WGN would try to air more games, which would defiantly get higher ratings. But baseball skews older (even with the Cubs), and it probably wouldn't make financial sense for WGN or the Cubs.
Originally posted by dumont: Given the trends of the past week shown by surging NBC and flagging CBS, I have projected how the two networks will finish up the February Sweep. Based on my projection, I am quite confident that NBC will indeed surpass CBS for third place in viewers, and will tie CBS for third place in households as follows:
At this point, CBS's only way to stave off fourth place in viewers for the February Sweep is to pull from the air the three hours of low-rated Big Brother on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Does Mr. Moonves have the bottle to cancel his wife's program?
I think your predictions are probably right dumont. It has been a bad sweeps for CBS ratings wise. Of course, they are not going to as big of an expense by sticking with repeats as maybe NBC and ABC, but nonetheless the ratings are very poor. All kidding aside, regarding Ms Moonves, it wouldn't make much sense to pull BB just for the chance to finish third instead of fourth. CBS should be back on track by the end of March or beginning of April. The eye will have the NCAA's (which rate pretty well with high income demos) and their schedule will be original before most of the other nets. By the time the next sweeps start in May, I expect CBS to be ahead of NBC and at least challenging ABC for second.
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Superstation WGN is a different feed than WNG Chicago. Her in Indy, and anywhere else outside of Chi-town, you can watch Air-Bud to night (Friday 02/22) on WGN, not Smackdown.
I wonder if some cubs games are broadcast on the "Superstation" that are not aired locally in Chicago?
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Originally posted by T Dog: In fact, just today (or actually yesterday) there was a Tribune article stating that the Cubs are moving more games to cable and are only televising 63 games this year, a record low. Why? Because their rights fees are higher on cable than on WGN, and of course - so it won't conflict with CW programming. With the poor ratings CW has, you'd think WGN would try to air more games, which would defiantly get higher ratings. But baseball skews older (even with the Cubs), and it probably wouldn't make financial sense for WGN or the Cubs.
Originally posted by Zitrone: Lost was actually great tonight, minus the dying-mother scene. Or maybe the strike lowered my standards.
I didn't think this episode was as good as the first three, which is not a bad thing since the first 3 episodes have been 10/10 episodes for me whereas this was more like 7/10. But still pretty good for a Kate centric episode. The bombs/twists at the end of last two episodes have been great... M. Night Shyamalan take a lesson.
I agree with you lost_fan, I was kinda disappointed with last night's LOST -- not as good as the first 3 this season: it felt like the throttle was pulled back a bit, felt like a season 2 or 3 episode. So I'm kinda glad they'll be squishing 8 episodes worth of plot in the last 5 -- hopefully it ensures that remaining episodes are faster paced.
Oh, and I guessed the plot twist at the end (regarding a certain baby)... lopez, you may want to delete your post about it in case people haven't watched it yet...
I have not seen it yet, but I heard. That was very odd.
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Originally posted by Zitrone: Lost was actually great tonight, minus the dying-mother scene. Or maybe the strike lowered my standards.
I didn't think this episode was as good as the first three, which is not a bad thing since the first 3 episodes have been 10/10 episodes for me whereas this was more like 7/10. But still pretty good for a Kate centric episode. The bombs/twists at the end of last two episodes have been great... M. Night Shyamalan take a lesson.
I agree with you lost_fan, I was kinda disappointed with last night's LOST -- not as good as the first 3 this season: it felt like the throttle was pulled back a bit, felt like a season 2 or 3 episode. So I'm kinda glad they'll be squishing 8 episodes worth of plot in the last 5 -- hopefully it ensures that remaining episodes are faster paced.
Oh, and I guessed the plot twist at the end (regarding a certain baby)... lopez, you may want to delete your post about it in case people haven't watched it yet...
Originally posted by Marc Berman: I have not seen it yet, but I heard. That was very odd.
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Originally posted by lost_fan:
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Originally posted by Zitrone: Lost was actually great tonight, minus the dying-mother scene. Or maybe the strike lowered my standards.
I didn't think this episode was as good as the first three, which is not a bad thing since the first 3 episodes have been 10/10 episodes for me whereas this was more like 7/10. But still pretty good for a Kate centric episode. The bombs/twists at the end of last two episodes have been great... M. Night Shyamalan take a lesson.
I agree with you lost_fan, I was kinda disappointed with last night's LOST -- not as good as the first 3 this season: it felt like the throttle was pulled back a bit, felt like a season 2 or 3 episode. So I'm kinda glad they'll be squishing 8 episodes worth of plot in the last 5 -- hopefully it ensures that remaining episodes are faster paced.
Oh, and I guessed the plot twist at the end (regarding a certain baby)... lopez, you may want to delete your post about it in case people haven't watched it yet...
You should still watch it Marc -- to be clear, even an average episode of LOST is better than pretty much anything else on tv. Regarding the certain plot twist, they try to fool you by throwing red herrings throughout the episode, but there is one scene early in the episode that gave it away for me. Oh, and I'm actually enjoying the LOST-enhanced reruns at 8pm, with their pop-ups of info about each scene -- they even pointed out that there was a scene in last week's show (The Economist) that was meant as an homage to The Empire Strikes Back.
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Is that just 63 games in the CHICAGO Market?
Superstation WGN is a different feed than WNG Chicago. Her in Indy, and anywhere else outside of Chi-town, you can watch Air-Bud to night (Friday 02/22) on WGN, not Smackdown.
I wonder if some cubs games are broadcast on the "Superstation" that are not aired locally in Chicago?
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Originally posted by T Dog: In fact, just today (or actually yesterday) there was a Tribune article stating that the Cubs are moving more games to cable and are only televising 63 games this year, a record low. Why? Because their rights fees are higher on cable than on WGN, and of course - so it won't conflict with CW programming. With the poor ratings CW has, you'd think WGN would try to air more games, which would defiantly get higher ratings. But baseball skews older (even with the Cubs), and it probably wouldn't make financial sense for WGN or the Cubs.
I think that all of the games that the Cubs broadcast on WGN are aired nationally on the Superstation and locally in Chicago. I know they have a separate national feed of WGN from the local channel in Chicago, but I don't think they have any games locally that are not covered nationally or vice versa.
