It’s a joke. It’s got to be a joke–
Oh God, it’s for reals:
Category: News
TV Premiere Dates 2013: The Complete Guide
The Hollywood Reporter, which has become our favorite TV news source other than the Horses’ Mouth, gives us the lowdown on when our favorite shows that aren’t on the air right now or are about to go off for awhile will return.
Don’t forget to bookmark this page, fanatical ones!
And While We’re on the “Ain’t Having Anymore Pay-TV” Paradigm…
…This just in from The Consumerist:
Broadcasters Suddenly Notice That Cord-Cutters Exist, Freak Out by Laura Northrup
If you’re frugal and Internet-savvy, you’ve heard of cord-cutting. Cord-cutters ditch their expensive cable or satellite subscriptions and keep broadband Internet. Then they stream, rent, or (shh) illegally download their favorite programs, and some buy antennae to watch major networks over-the-air like it’s 1972 or something. What broadcasters are trying to figure out is whether they can depend on these consumers, mostly young and childless, to subscribe to traditional cable once they’re older and more settled.The media-analytics company Nielsen calls households that have no televisions hooked up to an antenna or cable connection “Zero-TV households.” There were two million of them in 2007, and now they estimate that there are about five million. Nielsen finally figured out that maybe they should start measuring what TV programs these people watch and how.
“As these homes change life stage, what will happen to them?” one Nielsen VP asked the Associated Press. Will they subscribe to Nickelodeon to pacify their toddlers, when they have them, or continue with their wacky Netflix-streaming ways?
Speaking of Cutting the Pay TV Cord…
Bloomberg.Com has some supportive news for those of us who have stopped using/paying for cable and satellite TV.
According to a report from the Convergence Consulting Group 1.08 million pay TV customers canceled their service in 2012, bringing the number of subscribers who’ve said no to their Pay TV Monkeys to approximately 3.74 million since 2008.
Last year’s Pay TV rehabbers were only a scosh over 1% of all Pay TV accounts, but when factored into the overall picture, they’ve certainly done their part in contributing to slowing Pay TV growth. In fact, according to Bloomberg, the whole Pay TV industry is expected to increase by less than 100,000 subscribers in 2013.
LB: Want to Know Which TV Shows Hired No Women or Writers of Color in 2011-2012?
Speaking, as we did here on TVWriter™ yesterday, of the Writers Guild of America West’s latest report on the writing staff situation, you can find the big picture on television industry bigots, including WGA-covered shows and their not-so-delightful propensity for bias in the WGAW 2013 TV Staffing Brief here.
And here are two interesting – as in disgusting – details, posted by ThinkProgress.Com:
Television Shows That Hired No Women Writers During The 2011-2012 Season