The Economics Of Free TV Shows
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 by an unknown assailant. Suddenly, there was an unmistakable sound of hurried footsteps from somewhere....
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all
The Dying Royalty Of Free TV Shows
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 U.S. and UK, they also hold the record as being the longest-running TV shows in history, beating all shows...
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all
Free TV Shows And The Ratings
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 both the TV and advertising industries. Through a survey, it...
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all
The Social Impact Of Free TV Shows
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 is true, even after the explosive emergence of the Internet and its domination...
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all
The Genres In Free TV Shows
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 television came into the scene, the network owners more or less followed the...
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all
Programming Free TV Shows
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 easiest job in the world. Programming the shows on a network has to...
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all
IPTV And ITV – Killers Of Free TV Shows?
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 we? Are they the answer to the problems of commercial television today? IPTV...
October 20th, 2009 by mr.know it all