Many are now questioning whether the networks, such as ABC, NBC, CBS etc., are going to need a bailout as well. Variety reported on the common denominator being quite puffed up by advertising dollars which are shrinking with the economic chaos, in an article titled, “Network Bailout?”
Cutting prime time is one suggestion. Fewer originals. Selling the time to production companies. Infomercials. Longform informational programming. Turn the broadcast network into a cable one.
Increase viewer interest with a more individual market type, not so mass, I mean people are so different, why keep trying to increase the market by size and not by quality of interest and importance. Good stories will never die, information and learning is of vital importance.
When the rich get so rich that the poor could never support that bloated bottom line what are we to do? How many times in history has this happened? Countless times and it is always painful.