TV priorities
Aug. 17th, 2003 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eEver wonder why TV stations show so much cheap crap, cut good shows to ribbons to fit more, and screw around with the screening times and dates?
This is why:
A friend told me about the time he and a lot of people from a science fiction club took a petition to channel 9 to protest about their appalling treatment of science fiction shows. The security guard refused to let them pass, so my friend went to a phone and rang someone in charge to let them know the security guard wouldn't let them in to deliver important viewer feedback to the station. The executive was not impressed. His reply was curt. "Look, we have enough problems running a TV station without worrying about what the viewers want" and hung up.
People often joke about TV stations not caring about their viewers. Well, guess what... it's actually true.
This is why:
A friend told me about the time he and a lot of people from a science fiction club took a petition to channel 9 to protest about their appalling treatment of science fiction shows. The security guard refused to let them pass, so my friend went to a phone and rang someone in charge to let them know the security guard wouldn't let them in to deliver important viewer feedback to the station. The executive was not impressed. His reply was curt. "Look, we have enough problems running a TV station without worrying about what the viewers want" and hung up.
People often joke about TV stations not caring about their viewers. Well, guess what... it's actually true.