Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood is making mistakes with TV

2015-06-17 Thread PGage
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:08 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I am also not sure of the math behind the 80%/30% formulation (see full quote below). If a population of 1000 viewers watch 20 programs a week, and 80%

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood is making mistakes with TV

2015-06-16 Thread Kevin M.
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:08 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I am also not sure of the math behind the 80%/30% formulation (see full quote below). If a population of 1000 viewers watch 20 programs a week, and 80% think Program X is pretty good (say, it is their 15th favorite program),

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood is making mistakes with TV

2015-06-16 Thread PGage
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:59 AM, JW redbu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for posting that, Steve. The two big things I took away were (1) the mass of indistinguishable cable networks are in trouble, including the once-niche ones whose broadening we've often decried.There's not much value in

[TV orNotTV] Re: 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood is making mistakes with TV

2015-06-14 Thread JW
Thanks for posting that, Steve. The two big things I took away were (1) the mass of indistinguishable cable networks are in trouble, including the once-niche ones whose broadening we've often decried.There's not much value in being one of four places to see Law and Order. (2) I think the idea of