As I see more and more examples of the media offloading some of the troubled step-children of a bygone era and using the innovative idea that their speech is offensive or actionable or the costs of producing their shows is too much to bear, I am struck by the idea that the media moguls and the behind the scenes movers and shakers of TV Land have decided that the time has finally come to make some kind of a stand and try to reclaim that 50% slice of the people that their current shows and hosts invited to fuck off and die. I know, it doesn't sound like them but perhaps they're looking at their future revenues without any viewers from the majority block of voters and calculating that that is just too much write off.
Will it actually change anything or make TV more watchable or entertaining, well I'm not the best judge of that but history does tend to show that people will leap at any excuse to stop the bleeding once they finally wake up and realize that they are in fact, bleeding out. As I look at old clips of the Johnny Carson Tonight Show I laugh out loud but I don't recall ever being the slightest bit amused or entertained by any of the TV hosts that came after him except Jay Leno.
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I found Craig Ferguson to be very entertaining. He never took himself too seriously, and he was honest with his audience about how he was feeling on a daily basis. His interactions with Geoff were legendary. After his mother and father passed, he gave glowing tributes to each, and it was very moving. He might be the only host in the past 30 years that I could even stand.
Another aspect, the lack of any reason at all to watch broadcast tv anymore may also start to clue the various broadcast networks/empires into considering that by refusing to make any programming for the sane 3/4s of the country they might well consider selling off a lot more of the TV spectrum to people like Elon Musk. I don't think they even broadcast local games anymore so what exactly is the point to reserving tv spectrum?
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