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For those of you who remember life before the year 2000, NBC was once a great broadcast network that produced some really good television programs in the 1980s and 1990s. What the hell happened to them? They were owned by RCA for several decades but here are some recent ownership changes that may have played into the decay of their performance.
They still have plenty of good shows that I watch. Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago PD, Law and Order SVU, Dateline, etc. I watch NBC a lot more than CBS or ABC.
When Comcast bought out everyone and owns everything. Zucker got over 30 million and can't blame him. But who really knows who the bad guy is. It's all just business. NBC still has a few good shows but i think in the near future everything is going via the net and places like NBC are going the way of the newspaper. Down as it's all social media and gaining every day.
When Comcast bought out everyone and owns everything. Zucker got over 30 million and can't blame him. But who really knows who the bad guy is. It's all just business. NBC still has a few good shows but i think in the near future everything is going via the net and places like NBC are going the way of the newspaper. Down as it's all social media and gaining every day.
Because they got a production studio out of the deal, a major theme park presence in Orlando, and the relationships with talent, crew and other production studios to feed into whatever distribution infrastructure ends up being standard at any one time.
For those of you who remember life before the year 2000, NBC was once a great broadcast network that produced some really good television programs in the 1980s and 1990s. What the hell happened to them? They were owned by RCA for several decades but here are some recent ownership changes that may have played into the decay of their performance.
They still have some great shows! The Blacklist and Dateline are two of the finest programs on television at the present moment in my opinion...and I really only watch a handful of shows. And actually of the three or four major networks, I think that NBC produces the best quality shows.
All three Big 3 networks haven't aged gracefully, imo. I could find a show or two on all three I like, but for the most part I don't watch them for anything other than the local and national news, and their national news is so biased you have to take in the information with a grain of salt. It's something that's happened over time for all three networks as far as regular programming, and for NBC Nightly News when John Chancellor left the anchor chair and Brokaw took over there was an immediate change from straight news reporting to a liberal slant that got worse and worse over time. I can barely stomach watching Lester Holt and their field reporters these days.
NBC does have Grimm so it's not all bad. Love that show, and I'm sure others don't. So part of it is personal taste. The shows I like started out on many different channels, including cable, that I picked up on later on Netflix, Hulu Plus, and even Acorn TV for British (mostly), Canadian (19-2), and Australian (A Place to Call Home) content.
My second paragraph shows how fickle we as consumers can be now that we have so many stations/channels to watch. Back in the 70's & early 80's a lot of people didn't believe cable was a necessary expense so didn't get it, leaving them with the Big 3 and PBS. Not many options there, so it was a matter of watching what was on or doing something else with our time. Believe me, there was a lot of bad tv back then, some of it we watched, some we didn't. Wasn't a big deal either way, unless something big was happening like who shot J.R. on Dallas, a heavyweight title fight, the Olympics, a presidential election, etc. We didn't have cable and a lot of what we watched were things I know I wouldn't have had there been the number of choices we have today. A lot of it is perception.
On a side note: It'll be a sad day for sports fans if the NFL ever stops being shown on over-the-air television. Baseball, hockey, and basketball all have gone to cable. And not just to any cable, for me to watch the Detroit Red Wings or Detroit Tigers I had to have U-verse 300, which I eventually got rid of. Couldn't see spending that much money just to watch a couple of sports teams.
Because they got a production studio out of the deal, a major theme park presence in Orlando, and the relationships with talent, crew and other production studios to feed into whatever distribution infrastructure ends up being standard at any one time.
Yup for sure.
Now to be clear I dont think NBC has "turned to crap" but I think it is bad any time a service provider (Comcast) becomes a production company (through their purchase of NBCU). It is usually a horrible conflict of interest.
For those of you who remember life before the year 2000, NBC was once a great broadcast network that produced some really good television programs in the 1980s and 1990s. What the hell happened to them? They were owned by RCA for several decades but here are some recent ownership changes that may have played into the decay of their performance.
Saved By The Bell...that was definitely the turning point.
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How is that a smart play on Comcast's part??????
