Comments on: TV’s Youth Obsession Backfiring?

By: just me

just me — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:34:24 +0000

I watch pretty much nothing on network tv channels other than the occassional sports event. Most of it is just not my taste or style.

I do spend a lot of time watching shows on Discovery, History and similar channels.

I think some shows have a cross generational appeal on those channels, my whole family loves to watch mythbusters.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:38:11 +0000

Fox news came along a fill a big hole of people who wasn’t being served. Their ratings are thumbing their competitors. Some day someone in the entertainment industry will do the same thing and reap major profits because of it.

My problem with most of today’s shows is it the real-world type of backstabbing or liberal alternate lifestyle philosophy being shove down your throat. That fine in small doses but there is only so much of it that one can take. I like going to the movies but the most of the junk they have put out there the last year isn’t worth seeing. To much liberal political agenda in most of them.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:25:32 +0000

The TV exec's obsession with youth is based on the misguided belief that portion of the demographic has the highest amount of spending capacity to support their advertisers. I don't know if anyone caught the news item on ABC last night which said the 20 somethings have the hightest debt, so I'm not sure what they will be buying on their maxxed out credit cards. I do know, however, that my wife is getting ready to drop another $50k in remodeling on my house. I'm sure the folks at DIY and the HG Networks are benefiting from her dedicated viewing of all their home improvement shows. And I just saw that Lowe's had a very good quarter, not in small part from all the paint and other stuff my other half has spent at their stores.