With snacks and drinks in hand, you settle down on your favorite sofa opposite your TV set. You clicked the remote and your favorite free TV show goes on.
You caught up and got carried with the story right away. You followed the hero to a dark place, an abandoned room where someone was brutally murdered [...]
October - 20 - 2009
October - 20 - 2009
For free TV show fans, soap operas had been, are and will always be on top of their list as the pinnacle of television drama. The concrete proof is that soap operas all over the world are among the highest-rated, if not the highest-rated, among all the other shows in all the other genres.
In the [...]
October - 20 - 2009
The brutal truth: all the free TV shows in the world (including the news, specials, the sports and awards events, in fact, every show there is) have their precious existence dependent on only one factor – ratings.
What are ratings? And why does it wield such power?
Basically, ratings are simply an audience measurement system used by [...]
October - 20 - 2009
Through the years, the myriad variety of free TV shows had somehow generated around the same number of studies focusing mostly on the positive or negative influence of these shows on the viewers. So far, the results had been a fuzzy stalemate.
Today, the viewing interest of people had not waned after all these years. This [...]
October - 20 - 2009
Free TV shows on television were born much in the same way as those radio shows of old. First, radio was the venue for playing music and broadcasting the latest news. Later, there were good old chats, the commentaries and the talk shows. Then, entertainment like songs and stories dramatized for radio arrived and stayed.
When [...]
October - 20 - 2009
Free TV shows are broadcast by free television networks with one primary goal: to capture the greatest number of viewers and hold their interest for the longest time.These numbers are then used by the networks to persuade advertisers to place their commercials on these top-rated shows.
Sounds simple, but this kind of work is not the [...]
October - 20 - 2009
There are two new kids on the entertainment block – the Internet Protocol Television and Interactive Television. Both are touted to be killer TV viewing systems designed to wipe out the existence of free TV shows as we know it.
What are they, really? Why should we (free TV viewing aficionados) be afraid of them?
Or should [...]
