On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:50:29 -0400, Jack Bohn <jackbohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>Rob Jensen wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:30:02 -0400, David <dimlan17@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>Skeptics of the NBC-DirecTV deal say that it could backfire if
>>>impatient fans turn to the Internet to download illegal copies of
>>>“Friday Night Lights” before it appears on NBC. The Web site Silicon
>>>Alley Insider called the deal “a big win for BitTorrent,” referring to
>>>a popular file-sharing program. Executives played down the risk of
>>>that.
>>
>>My suspicion is that Comcast and NBC Uni are going to have to rethink
>>the exclusive window. It seems that SOME idiot at NBC Uni forgets
>>about how badly the long window between the initial airing of season 1
>>eps of Battlestar Galactica in the UK affected the ratings for the
>>show here in the US two months later.
>
>How badly did the window affect the ratings? Wasn't that the
>highest rated season of BSG, and also the highest rated sci fi
>show on the channel?
>(Note my qualifier that cut off comments from those who have RAW
>emotions about another show on the channel.)
Let's put it this way: everyone from the show was *begging* the
audience at Comic-Con to NOT watch the interweb bootlegs for the
second half of the first season, before the ratings started to rise
with the increasing critical acclaim. It was hurting their ratings
*that* much.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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