 batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | What is "Breaking Bad"? I guess with only ten million viewers I'm not alone. I know what M.A.S.H. was; it had over ten times the number of viewers. Of course it was free OTA. |
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 BF69Premium
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West Tenness | Re: What is "Breaking Bad"? Yes and most people still didn't have cable so you had 3 choices |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | said by BF69:Yes and most people still didn't have cable so you had 3 choices
Four if they did their homework. I had C.A.T.V in 1983. |
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BF69Premium
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West Tenness | said by batterup:said by BF69:Yes and most people still didn't have cable so you had 3 choices
Four if they did their homework. I had C.A.T.V in 1983. Yes I had cable in 1983 too. Over half the country didn't. If mini-dishes didn't exist you'd still have 1/3 watching OTA.
Four? I'm not counting PBS. Fox didn't exist until 1989. |
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Re: What is "Breaking Bad"? We'll probably never see ratings like that again for scripted television. There's too many options now. Netflix to watch great classic old shows, 200 channels on cable, internet video, piracy etc...
There weren't alot of options in the early 80s. No internet, no home video (you could only rent VHS), and a handful of channels.
People watch Mash because there wasn't a hell of a lot else to watch  (I did like the early seasons of Mash, the later seasons got preachy. I'm not sure how they hold up today).
With the exception of live sports events I'm not sure we'll ever see a rating like Mash got.
10 million views is pretty good in the 21st century. Ratings are way lower across the board than they were at the turn of the millennium. 10 million is pretty damn good. |
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Brewster, WA | reply to BF69
Re: What is "Breaking Bad"? said by BF69:Four? I'm not counting PBS. Fox didn't exist until 1989.
If they only had commercials, which are of course mandatory for a television channel to survive...
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| PBS is littered with commercials. They're just in a different format than her OTA competitors:
CBS: BUY THIS NEW CAR! GET HOT CHICKS!
PBS: Please give us money.
FOX: WE'RE FOX! WE ROCK! DRINK RED BULL! GET HOT CHICKS!
PBS: No, seriously, we really need some money. Pretty please?
NBC: WEAR AXE AND GET HOT CHICKS!
PBS: C'Mon dude, you're still watching. Pick up the phone and give us some coin.
(Said somewhat in jest, I do treasure PBS, but the notion that they don't have commercials is kind of laughable....) |
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| After every show there seems to be a commercial on PBS. I mean sponsored/underwritten by  Think Downton Abby/Masterpiece Classic - Viking Cruise .... Home Time and This Old House... Home Depot and/or Lowes. Rick Steves isn't it American Airlines?
At least it's at the end/beginning of the program and not interrupted... unless it's pledge drive. |
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Re: What is "Breaking Bad"? said by batterup:I guess with only ten million viewers I'm not alone. I know what M.A.S.H. was; it had over ten times the number of viewers. Of course it was free OTA.
?????? There was only 4 channels to watch at that time and one of them was PBS????? |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | Re: What is "Breaking Bad"? said by Corehhi:There was only 4 channels to watch at that time and one of them was PBS?????
Perhaps for the great unwashed; HBO launched on November 8, 1972 on cable. By 1983 there were a bit more than 4 channels.
Even before cable there were 7 OTA broadcast channels available in north NJ, WCBS 2, WNBC 4, WNEW 5, WABC 7, WOR 9, WPIX 11, and WNET 13. So spin it as you will but the truth shall make you free. |
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to batterup
that is if you could get broadcast channels, in CT however we had all those on cable and their CT duplicates. 7/8 were ABC for example but 7 was WABC and 8 WTNH both were ABC.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mo···oadcasts
If you notice the next highest is cheers in 1993, It really was that the sheer number of choices. And the Superbowl beats them all.
However this is also because TV networks roll over an play dead against a big gun, Nobody pits a new show against the Superbowl, And I bet in 1983 nobody pit new content against the MASH finale which I am pretty sure every exec and planner in the TV business knew would be huge so why even try.
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | said by Kearnstd:that is if you could get broadcast channels,
As I was reading about Dolan starting HBO over his new cable franchise in lower Manhattan I thought about my grandfather near Scranton Pennsylvania. He put an antenna on a mountain so he could get channels as far away as Binghamton NY. This was his chance to make the family fortune by making it a Community Antenna Television. |
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said by batterup:said by Corehhi:There was only 4 channels to watch at that time and one of them was PBS?????
Perhaps for the great unwashed; HBO launched on November 8, 1972 on cable. By 1983 there were a bit more than 4 channels. I couldn't get cable till around 1982. One of relatives who lived in NYC did have cable for a while but cable was fairly rare outside of big cities or at least I didn't no anyone who had it. |
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batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium
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Netcong, NJ | said by Corehhi:I couldn't get cable till around 1982. One of relatives who lived in NYC did have cable for a while but cable was fairly rare outside of big cities or at least I didn't no anyone who had it.
Thinking back I had cable in the mid 70's in cow country (western NJ), it was all analog back then. Big cities are where the people and ratings are; so comparing 10 million to 120 million shows there are many like myself who do not care to watch, much less pay to watch tripe. |
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