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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.
Those two may be above the intelligence level of many of today's TV viewers.
I think that this is the golden age of TV - but all of the good stuff is on cable and streaming services. The major broadcast networks have been losing audiences every year. The majority of their broadcast programming is truly dreadful - esp when compared to what is available elsewhere including all of the programming from other countries we have available now.
NBC is not any more dreadful than ABC, CBS or Fox.
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Remember though the Olympics are coming up, summer Olympics at that, so NBC should be seeing some nice revenues coming in as a result. Especially with people waiting for Rio to blow up.
I know I am in the minority on this, but I actually find most Olympic sports intensely boring. Any time the outcome of a sport is a result of a line of people in suits holding up score cards, it no longer feels like a sport to me. It feels more like a dance recital.
Most summer Olympic sports could be greatly improved by doing one simple thing: Add defense.
All that twirling on the rings would be a lot more exciting if another player was trying to knock the athlete off those rings.
Floor mat gymnastics would be way more exciting with a wild bull loose on the mat.
2. However, I think the OP is right in that I don't sense that Comcast really understands the history of NBC as one of the two truly great historical networks in our country. To Comcast, NBC is just a vehicle to make huge profits. Personally, I think the GE years were the last of the real NBC. Now it's just a network with no real traditions, except perhaps the Today Show juggernaut, and possibly Tonight.
If you ever find yourself in NYC, please make a point of visiting Rockefellar Center and 30 Rock. Comcast spent a fortune restoring the latter to its Art Deco glory. So, you may be wrong wrt what Comcast thinks about NBC's history.
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.
Well, they also had some great shows in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, many of them classics. A real grand time to watch television.
No doubt in my mind that what you say is true. I was born when many of those shows were already in syndication so I viewed them on the few independent stations that were around my area in the 1980s and 1990s. I would have to google each show individually to see which of the major networks on which the show originated. My earliest TV memory was watching Barney Miller on Saturday nights with my dad when I was four years old. According to Wikipedia Barney Miller was an ABC creation.
NBC's last gasp of life was in the '90s during the whole "Must See TV" era of Friends, Seinfeld, Frasier, etc. Once those shows were gone, there was still the odd good show now and then, but they were merely the death throes. 30 Rock was a great show, but even they were constantly making fun of how bad NBC is.
If I recall correctly NBC had at least two, if not three nights of solid situation comedy and drama programming under "Must See TV." The '90s puts the decline of "Must See TV" solidly in the middle of the GE ownership era. GE owned NBC outright from 1986 (when they bought RCA) to 2009 when Comcast took 51% ownership. Perhaps a shift to cheaper programming was mandated by GE management at some point. It costs pennies to create "reality" TV show versus a well crafted drama or situation comedy with writers and real performers.
The last show I religiously watched from NBC was Seinfeld which ended in 1998, I believe. I don't watch much TV now only one show religiously on CBS and one on AMC. I watched a fair amount on FOX until about three years ago. NBC and ABC I have rarely turned on since the year 2000. That being said I am more likely to pick up a sitcom or drama after someone convinces me to follow it and that is often by DVD or syndication.
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