re: #269 freetoken

It has been increasingly noticed that “television” is not what is once was.

By that we mean as a consumable.

Young people are not watching much network programming, especially news. If they do watch a “TV” program it will be very narrowly picked from particular interests and scattered all around the cable universe. And young people will want to watch on demand more so than be forced to tune in at a particular time.

VH1 is doing pretty well with the youth demographic. On any given night there will be more young people watching a single VH1 program than all of Fox News networks put together.

MSNBC is probably under pressure to appeal more to the 50+ demo to compete with Fox.

We are now long, long past the time when uncle Walter could command the national interest for a half hour at night.

Our Comcast is carrying a Vice newsmagazine via HBO. It’s a blog spinoff, seems to have some depth, integrity, and age-spectrum appeal.