Post by Techguy on Oct 30, 2009 12:59:32 GMT -5
I am so LOL at this excerpt from an article in the Examiner, courtesy of Vinnie Vidi Vici. The boldface is mine and VVV's:
NBC: From stellar to cellar
October 29, 2:24 PM Memphis Entertainment ExaminerMitch McCracken
Bob Wright, the former Chairman and CEO of NBC Universal spoke with FOX Business Network’s Liz Claman about the TV network that went from stellar to cellar...
...Claman: You know when you ran NBC, it was number 1, you had must see TV, here’s what one analyst said to me, the NBC Empire has fallen apart since Bob Wright left. Looking through different lens now, what went wrong in the last couple of years?
Bob Wright (FOX Business Network)Wright: I think it’s been a tougher time for broadcasting. We’re not on a roll; we haven’t been on a roll on the entertainment side where we generate so much money.
Claman: Jay Leno, that’s not doing well. Was that a good bet?
Wright: It’s a conservative position. Jay is an extremely well-recognized person. He also happens to work harder than about anybody in television. Good for your 47, 48 weeks a year on the air. That’s like local news. So over time you know he’s there and there at 10:00. Not like where is he this week? Is he coming back?
Claman: But Law and Order SVU did better in that 10 o’clock time slot.
Wright: But they don’t do that many episodes. He does his episodes that go for 48 weeks. It’s going to -- you make a decision like that, Liz, you have to be, have to have a long time view. When News Corporation went into this business, you have to have a long point of view.
Claman: They do?
Wright: It’s a decision with a long point of view. You know, and Jay has talent and ability to produce the show that is going to work and they’ll have to wait a while.
That is a lot better way to put it than “He will do better during reruns.” Jeff Zucker started failing even before he was promoted to CEO at NBC Universal. Following the merger with French media empire Vivendi Universal, he was promoted to president of its Television Group in May 2004. During Zucker's tenure, NBC slid from first place to fourth place in the ratings. Shows that Zucker championed such as Father of the Pride and the Friends spinoff Joey were considered failures.
Yet he was then promoted to Chief Executive Officer of NBC in 2005 and President and CEO of NBC Universal in 2007.
NBC needs to admit it was a mistake putting Conan O’Brien in as the host of the Tonight Show and fix the problem. While Jay Leno may do well in the long haul, when you are losing money and in the ratings cellar you should be looking for a quicker solution...
NBC: From stellar to cellar
October 29, 2:24 PM Memphis Entertainment ExaminerMitch McCracken
Bob Wright, the former Chairman and CEO of NBC Universal spoke with FOX Business Network’s Liz Claman about the TV network that went from stellar to cellar...
...Claman: You know when you ran NBC, it was number 1, you had must see TV, here’s what one analyst said to me, the NBC Empire has fallen apart since Bob Wright left. Looking through different lens now, what went wrong in the last couple of years?
Bob Wright (FOX Business Network)Wright: I think it’s been a tougher time for broadcasting. We’re not on a roll; we haven’t been on a roll on the entertainment side where we generate so much money.
Claman: Jay Leno, that’s not doing well. Was that a good bet?
Wright: It’s a conservative position. Jay is an extremely well-recognized person. He also happens to work harder than about anybody in television. Good for your 47, 48 weeks a year on the air. That’s like local news. So over time you know he’s there and there at 10:00. Not like where is he this week? Is he coming back?
Claman: But Law and Order SVU did better in that 10 o’clock time slot.
Wright: But they don’t do that many episodes. He does his episodes that go for 48 weeks. It’s going to -- you make a decision like that, Liz, you have to be, have to have a long time view. When News Corporation went into this business, you have to have a long point of view.
Claman: They do?
Wright: It’s a decision with a long point of view. You know, and Jay has talent and ability to produce the show that is going to work and they’ll have to wait a while.
That is a lot better way to put it than “He will do better during reruns.” Jeff Zucker started failing even before he was promoted to CEO at NBC Universal. Following the merger with French media empire Vivendi Universal, he was promoted to president of its Television Group in May 2004. During Zucker's tenure, NBC slid from first place to fourth place in the ratings. Shows that Zucker championed such as Father of the Pride and the Friends spinoff Joey were considered failures.
Yet he was then promoted to Chief Executive Officer of NBC in 2005 and President and CEO of NBC Universal in 2007.
NBC needs to admit it was a mistake putting Conan O’Brien in as the host of the Tonight Show and fix the problem. While Jay Leno may do well in the long haul, when you are losing money and in the ratings cellar you should be looking for a quicker solution...
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