The recession is here, it sucks. But so far TV, Cinema and DVD has avoided the fallout. Last year Paramount made millions with Ironman and WarnerBros almost a billion with Batman....so people are still going to Cinema. But its coming, people will cut back on cinema and all those adverts for banks and cars on tv that generate big revenue will drop causing profit to drop for the networks
What TvChannel/MovieStudio is gonna be massacred in the recession
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Everyone will be hit to one extent or another. One or two may go under/be forced to merge. I know over here in the UK one of the major networks has just been forced to cut jobs, shows and budgets (ITV). There talks of it being bought out/merging with another network.
You can remove the BBC from the poll as its safe due to the way its funded over here. The 'TV licence' every household with a TV pays a yearly fee (effectively a TV tax) currently £139.50 ($196.95) to the BBC. I know it is making cutbacks such as moving its sports departments and a few radio departments out of London to cut costs but its safe and will be producing high quality shows for decades to come.
You can remove the BBC from the poll as its safe due to the way its funded over here. The 'TV licence' every household with a TV pays a yearly fee (effectively a TV tax) currently £139.50 ($196.95) to the BBC. I know it is making cutbacks such as moving its sports departments and a few radio departments out of London to cut costs but its safe and will be producing high quality shows for decades to come.
CW - you left it out.
Fox is very pleased with the DVR numbers/Online Viewing of Terminator and Dollhouse (they put them in the 7 million range each and they're counting them for these shows as Nielsen ratings). If it'll save them... that's another story. But I doubt Fox/Newscorp is going anywhere.
Fox is very pleased with the DVR numbers/Online Viewing of Terminator and Dollhouse (they put them in the 7 million range each and they're counting them for these shows as Nielsen ratings). If it'll save them... that's another story. But I doubt Fox/Newscorp is going anywhere.
Ok im not over there but as people cut back will HBO and ones like that get hit?
MGM is gone, and its a shame. They used to make hundreds of successful films but now they don't really do anything. They had potential since they still have the 007 Franchise. It has huge marketable brands like "Stargate" not just for America, and if you go abroad HongKong, Netherlands wherever you will find Stargate SG1 and Atlantis broadcast as syndication tv. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screwed itself up not because of bad movies but because it was badly managed. Sony and Fox will devour whatever is left of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
NBC, MSN, Universal or whatever its called is too big to fail
they own everything
Vivendi music, GE, the Weather channel, CNBC...you name it, even the banks they probably have a stake in it all.
I can see its smaller companies like Skiffy going, NBC owns that junk and Skiffy has been doing a piss poor job of late. They screwed up the FlashGordon franchise, put money into stupid movies, they allowed battlestar to drag on and on forever and the channel does not bother showing scifi anymore. NBC will stay healthy but might decide to shed some weight like dumping the scifi channel
Fox is also staying strong, Rupert Murdoch owns that bunch and they are ruthless. If something is going low in ratings Fox just cuts it lose, its news channel also has a loyal base of Neocons and more moderate Reagan Republicans...once Obama-mania wears off people will tune back to the channel. I think their movies do ok and pics like the Wolverine movie are going to make lots of money
NBC, MSN, Universal or whatever its called is too big to fail
they own everything
Vivendi music, GE, the Weather channel, CNBC...you name it, even the banks they probably have a stake in it all.
I can see its smaller companies like Skiffy going, NBC owns that junk and Skiffy has been doing a piss poor job of late. They screwed up the FlashGordon franchise, put money into stupid movies, they allowed battlestar to drag on and on forever and the channel does not bother showing scifi anymore. NBC will stay healthy but might decide to shed some weight like dumping the scifi channel
Fox is also staying strong, Rupert Murdoch owns that bunch and they are ruthless. If something is going low in ratings Fox just cuts it lose, its news channel also has a loyal base of Neocons and more moderate Reagan Republicans...once Obama-mania wears off people will tune back to the channel. I think their movies do ok and pics like the Wolverine movie are going to make lots of money
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Agreed that MGM is not much longer for this earth. I figure Columbia/Sony will absorb 007. 20th Century Fox will pick up the rest (Stargate & a sizable library of existing movies, although they sold off most of the prime pickings to Warner Bros. years ago).
NBC isn't doing well. MSNBC has been the lowest rated cable news outlet forever. Olberman and Maddow do decent, but they don't have the base Fox News does.
On their standard channel they don't have any show in the Top 20. Not The Office. Not 30 Rock. Not Heroes. All of their new shows have bombed. And if they cancel my favorite show of all time, Chuck - a show that does better then all of their Must See TV Lineup except The Office, they'll lose yet another viewer. And they think the solution to all their problems is to give Jay Leno more air time. Just when I thought we were free of that miserable, mediocre hack. My God, the guy was still doing Bill Clinton jokes 8 FRICKIN' YEARS after he had left office.
On their standard channel they don't have any show in the Top 20. Not The Office. Not 30 Rock. Not Heroes. All of their new shows have bombed. And if they cancel my favorite show of all time, Chuck - a show that does better then all of their Must See TV Lineup except The Office, they'll lose yet another viewer. And they think the solution to all their problems is to give Jay Leno more air time. Just when I thought we were free of that miserable, mediocre hack. My God, the guy was still doing Bill Clinton jokes 8 FRICKIN' YEARS after he had left office.
Thats good to hear...I thought that both of these shows were Dead Shows walking
I voted, MGM, NBC, DISNEY. Those companies are DEAD DUCKS! MWA HA HA!
Unless their whole business strategy is to chase the young female demo. Which is a smart strategy if none of your competitors are specifically chasing that demo. Better than competing with a bigger dog for a demo someone's already got staked out.
Believe me, the CW knows exactly what they are doing, and are not going to be "dying" just because you can't understand their business strategy.
Not that I give a flip about anything on that network besides Reaper, which probably won't get renewed anyway. But the fact that they make hardly anything you or I am interesting in watching does not indicate a faulty business strategy in the least.
Both of those shows are dead.
Except it doesn't look like they're doing a very good job.
Believe me, the CW knows exactly what they are doing, and are not going to be "dying" just because you can't understand their business strategy.
I can't understand throwing something you need out when you have nothing to replace it. It's really not any more complicated than that.
I don't care if they live or die. I'm not even an American. I don't get the CW.
Hopefully, the true answer to the original question will be ITV here in the UK. I don't think they show a minute per week of non-sport male-orientated programming anymore. Unfortunately for them, they aren't free to pick and choose what they show. As a terrestial network they are expected to maintain certain standards and balance in their programming, so before too long it will be bye-bye to them if they carry on down this road.