These media execs want to portray hackers and technology as part of a conspiracy that prevent them from really doing great stuff. But, when asked what good things they are doing with a bunch of cable channels, this one comes up with: 1. Lone Ranger Pilot. Jesus! 2. Showing the same show on multiple channels to get more viewers. It apparently took "research" to prove that the same slop on two channels will get more brain-dead viewers than slop on one channel. Welcome to "multiplexing". That is great. I am glad they are paying this guy millions of dollars to sit on top of this crap. And then to say, we are criminals for going to the bathroom during commercials when I can barely keep my food down viewing the "content".
CW: What are you seeing come out of the studios?
JK: There's a couple of pieces I think are very interesting. We've done a pilot of The Lone Ranger, which is a WB development, but we're doing a two-hour movie. And since the two-hour movie easily fits onto TNT because of the success with the Western genre over the years, that one becomes a natural project where we could help finance the project by selling a couple of runs to TNT. It would have been much harder to do a two-hour movie without TNT there. When we see it my biggest fear about the Western is: Will it play young enough for the WB? If it doesn't and it's still a good show, it could easily play more broadly on TNT.
CW: Can cable networks afford to be more committed?
JK: Wait longer for something to develop? Definitely. The ability to play it multiple times is greater in cable.... In cable you can give it a couple of airings and try to get more exposure for it and the multiple airings will come up a larger audience. JK: Wait longer for something to develop? Definitely. The ability to play it multiple times is greater in cable.... In cable you can give it a couple of airings and try to get more exposure for it and the multiple airings will come up a larger audience.
The industry has now experimented with multiplexing, and the results so far say that you can play programs on two different networks and get more new viewers to watch them....
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These media execs want to portray hackers and technology as part of a conspiracy that prevent them from really doing great stuff. But, when asked what good things they are doing with a bunch of cable channels, this one comes up with:
1. Lone Ranger Pilot. Jesus!
2. Showing the same show on multiple channels to get more viewers. It apparently took "research" to prove that the same slop on two channels will get more brain-dead viewers than slop on one channel. Welcome to "multiplexing". That is great. I am glad they are paying this guy millions of dollars to sit on top of this crap. And then to say, we are criminals for going to the bathroom during commercials when I can barely keep my food down viewing the "content".
CW: What are you seeing come out of the studios?
JK: There's a couple of pieces I think are very interesting. We've done a pilot of The Lone Ranger, which is a WB development, but we're doing a two-hour movie. And since the two-hour movie easily fits onto TNT because of the success with the Western genre over the years, that one becomes a natural project where we could help finance the project by selling a couple of runs to TNT. It would have been much harder to do a two-hour movie without TNT there. When we see it my biggest fear about the Western is: Will it play young enough for the WB? If it doesn't and it's still a good show, it could easily play more broadly on TNT.
CW: Can cable networks afford to be more committed?
JK: Wait longer for something to develop? Definitely. The ability to play it multiple times is greater in cable.... In cable you can give it a couple of airings and try to get more exposure for it and the multiple airings will come up a larger audience.
JK: Wait longer for something to develop? Definitely. The ability to play it multiple times is greater in cable.... In cable you can give it a couple of airings and try to get more exposure for it and the multiple airings will come up a larger audience.
The industry has now experimented with multiplexing, and the results so far say that you can play programs on two different networks and get more new viewers to watch them....