Re: NBC Universal is dividing TV studio

David wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:37:54 GMT, jayembee
> <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> jayembee <jayembeenospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Mother of God!  Why would you do anything to KEEP Bonnie Hammer?
>>>>
>>>> Because at the end of the day, she makes money for NBC-Universal.
>>>> That's the only thing that counts.
>>>
>>> Of course, you have to wonder if maybe they'd make more money if
>>> they hired somebody competent.
>>
>> Shrug. A bird in the hand...
>>
>> Besides...the general cor****ate attitude these days is that it's
>> not enough to keep making money. What they want to is to keep
>> making *more* money...that is, increase the profits from one
>> quarter to the next, one year to the next.
>>
>> As long as Hammer is doing that, her bosses will believe that she's
>> doing what she's been hired to do.
>
> All she did was launch several successful original series and turn the
> Sci-Fi Channel from an alsoran to one of the premier cable networks.

She's turned into a shadow of its former self as far as sci-fi content
is concerned.  She's cancelled good series and picked up crap ones.
She's made the channel the butt of all jokes as far as Sci-Fi Original
movies are concerned.  These aren't B-movies, because you have to go way
the hell further down the aplphabet to describe them.  Z-movies is about
right.


> But if the usual rec.arts.sf.tv complainers aren't happy then it's
> tough to imagine how Universal could possibly be.

And OTOH we have Bonnie Hammer cheerleaders like you.  Universal is
happy as long as the channel makes more and more money, and couldn't
give a crap less about whether the channel has any decent sci-fi
content.  It could be all non-Sci-Fi movies, crap reality TV and
Wrestling 24/7/365 on "The Sci-Fi Channel", and as long as it made the
money they wanted, NBC/Universal would be happy as clams.  It just
wouldn't be a Sci-Fi Channel.

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Mac Breck (KoshN)
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reason, no matter how badly they treat us, we still can't walk away.