Friday, July 21, 2006

Interesting Stats: The Worst Week in the History of Broadcast TV

Via Boing Boing.

Last week was the least-viewed week in the history of broadcast network television in the USA.

CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox averaged 20.8 million viewers during the average prime-time minute last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. That sunk below the previous record, set during the last week of July in 2005.

TV keeps losing to gaming, the Internet, youtubing, etc, and yet our elected representatives are willing to kill innovation and open source with a Broadcaast Flag that is intended only to assuage the fears of the broadcasters and studios, but which will have no impact at all on file-sharing.

More here.

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