Subject: Re: Finale Preview airing times?
From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (Chris Tavares)
Date: 1991-06-10, 11:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <6900@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson) writes:
> > But there's more going on than that.  They're not just trying to
> > maximize their viewers, they're trying to *minimize* CBS' viewers.
> > It's called counterprogramming... Now, TP
> > is virtually useless to ABC as a ratings-getter, at this point.
> > However, it *is* possible for them to use it as a counterprogramming
> > kamikaze, to try to submarine the growth of the Northern Exposure
> > audience, and that's what they're using it for.

To paraphrase Churchill, CBS is drunk and ABC is ugly; but next week, CBS will be
sober.  If ABC sees Northern Exposure as a serious competitor, they ain't gonna
knock it off with one, count 'em, one week of Twin Peaks.  How they're going to
compete with Northern Exposure when they are throwing away the only show they had
that appealed to much the same audience is something I'd like to see them try to
explain.  This seems less like a useful strategy than either stupidity or spite.

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