Combined 3Q ad rev for 3 major networks down 21.5%

[UpInArms]

It couldn't happen to a better trio of fools!



http://www.marketwatch.com/news/newsfinder/pulseone.asp?dateid=38672.5239776389-850870926&siteID=mktw&scid=0&doctype=806&

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Combined advertising revenue for the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks was down 21.5% for the third quarter and 8.3% for the first nine months of 2005, according to a report Wednesday by the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association. Total net revenues of $2.2 billion for the third quarter were down by $605 million from last year, led by a $707 million decline in sports advertising, the group said. ABC is a unit of Walt Disney Co. (DIS) , CBS is a unit of Viacom Inc. (VIA) (VIAB) and NBC is a subsidiary of General Electric Co. (GE) .

...very short blurb...

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[DemoTex]

1. All three are old, trick-worn whores.

:nopity:

[sendero]

That's interesting...

.... I wonder why sports advertising is down? :)

[ClassWarrior]

2. Yeah, because "LIBERALS DON'T WATCH TV"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5370616&mesg_id=5370616

:rofl:

NGU.

[depakid]

5. I was JUST going to post that!

Hard to market things when the programming is garbage and you insult the intelligence of 65% of your viewers on a daily basis.

The networks wanted to kowtow and lie for the far right- and rush to the bottom with the rest of ther programming, so I shouldn't think too many of them would be surprised- but then again, it's an insular community that's become increasing isolated from what real people are thinking.

[longship]

3. I *never* turn on those channels.

*Never*. They have precisely *zero* content in which I am interested. Their news sucks, *all* sitcoms suck, all network dramas *suck*, 25 minutes of loud lying commercials an hour *sucks*, etc.

When television is good, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Newton Minnow, May 9, 1961

[imported_dem]

4. I'd rather watch grass grow in the desert

Than watch anything those numbnuts can show on TV