Crusade : It's the ratings folks!

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From: alipies at aol.com
Date: 3 Mar 1999 16:32:08 -0700
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To add my 2 cents

I would have liked to seen crusade have it's run. There are a couple of
points I would like to make with regard to its cancelation

First, it's the ratings. As I remember ACTA got something in the range
of 2.3 to 2.8, something like that. That my friends is everything. If it
had gotten, say a 10, TNT would be falling over itself to keep the show.
I don't know what kind of ratings the B5 reruns are getting but at 4PM
here on the west coast, I don't hold my hopes up. Why oh why TNT can't
broadcast like everyone else and have their programs run at the same
time for every time zone is beyond me. I guess they enjoy losing
advertising money.

Second I see a progression here that wasn't good. B5 went from
syndication ( a large viewer base, accessable to anyone with a TV ) to
TNT ( still a large viewer base since it's a basic cable station, but
smaller since it's only on cable ) to, ( if ACTA had gone to the SCI-FI
channel ) a much smaller viewer base, since not everyone has that
channel. The bottom line here IS the bottom line. The smaller the viewer
base, the smaller the audience that will be reached, the less money
there is to produce a show, and the less advertising dollars to draw
from, etc..

While us diehards want to see the show continue, we alone are not enough
to keep it going. Again, it's the ratings. Things were not heading in a
good direction. While we may enjoy the show, it wasn't drawing in new
viewers. When the Crusade series airs it may in fact do that, and I hope
it does. Again it's the ratings. With good ratings, comes renewed
interest, and more importantly, more money.

Just my thoughts

Alan


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 4 Mar 1999 08:32:55 -0700
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>First, it's the ratings. As I remember ACTA got something in the range
>of 2.3 to 2.8, something like that. That my friends is everything. If it
>had gotten, say a 10, TNT would be falling over itself to keep the show.

Nothing on cable -- nada -- gets a 10 rating.  The successful shows get
somewhere from a 1 to a 3 rating, that's it.  That's all the penetration you
can get given the number of sets that have cable.

Sliders, considered a big hit on SFC, generally gets a 1.0 rating.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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