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Gaming Communities Cause Of TV Ratings Decline?

Posted by simoniker on from the terrorists-have-won dept.

Bendebecker writes "We all know about the falling popularity of television this season, but Mike Malone of ABC News has a very interesting viewpoint on why this is happening. He seems to think that the growing popularity of online gaming communities (the example he gives is Counter-Strike) are causing the decline, which is particularly noticeable among the young male demographic."

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  1. Warning! Warning! by The+Head+Sage · · Score: 2, Informative

    The above link is a 404.... Just to warn you all..

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    To NULL or not to NULL.
  2. its because they cancelled farscape by gladbach · · Score: 2, Informative

    all else is crap otherwise... well, except maybe for alias, westwing, and there are some mad hotties on that new las vegas show... ;/

    oh, and no more buffy either... ;(

    and yes, I am an avid gamer, and tend to either tivo, or download episodes of the net at my leisure.

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    "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms,
  3. Re:Are they going to be looking for new advertisin by rchatterjee · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well its already happening to some degree already. In EA Sports games all the advertisements in a stadium are for real companies and products though you could just say that's a byproduct of trying to go for realism but i've started to see it in other genres of video games too, In Enter the Matrix in the Airport there were ads for the Pentium 4 and Nvidia plastered around.