Rick;
As you know, you can watch PD movies for free via streaming any time of the day
or night. On your schedule. The only hitch is that there are usually
commercials interrupting the movie at various intervals. Offering movies
“Uncut…uninterrupted” would be a slight edge for LDTV over the streaming
services. Commercials would only appear at the beginning and end of the movie.
It’s no secret that MSNBC is one of the worst channels in the streaming
landscape. And I was thinking what would be an easy replacement that would
quadruple their viewership. I hit on the idea of getting a huge fish tank,
filling it with exotic tropical fish, setting up a real nice high-end HD camera
and creating the Fish Tank Network. Sort of like the TV yule log except it’s
year ‘round. Everyone loves watching tropical fish swim around. I’ll bet
their ratings would quadruple in a week.
To be sure, LDTV needs to get creative and unique, after all we’re battling the
full-powers and streaming services for eyeballs.
dB
On Nov 27, 2021, at 7:51 AM, Richard Goetz <rickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Come on Gil, your thoughts.
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Of Richard Goetz
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2021 7:57 AM
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Subject: [lptv] Movies
I was thinking (yes, I know that is a dangerous thing to do). When we go
to a movie theatre, do we go to watch every movie at the theatre? I bet 98%
of the time we only go to watch one movie. So why do we try to cram as many
movies at a viewer as we can. Maybe, just maybe, we should take 6.0 rating
and higher movies and run them for a 24 hour period, say 7PM – 7PM the next
day. The folks at home can tune in anytime they want an watch a quality movie
like The Inspector General, Till The Clouds Roll By, etc and not have to
watch junk. Much like when TBS runs “A Christmas Story” on Christmas day.
Most folks are going to tune in at some time to watch an old favorite. And it
would be easy to program an hour slot that repeats 24 times or a 1.5 hour
that repeats 16 times, etc.
If you are going to run the movies with no commercial breaks, I suggest
running them like TBS did in the early days starting at 5 minutes after the
hour. So you run fill, i.e. movie trailers with spots inbetween till :20 or
:50 depending on which half hour the movie is starting, filling with “stop by
the snack bar” fill material till :25 or :55, then start “10 min. Till Show
time” and a 1 minute break, “9 min. Till Show time” and a 1 minute break,
etc. You may want to put what the movie is in these slots to hold interest,
like a “Showing Tonight” bumper and 6-8 seconds of the opening title credit.
People switching on the half or the top of the hour should get hooked on the
drive in countdown and at least see what the movie is about. That makes “5
minutes till show time” till “Showtime” some prime spot land, maybe getting
50% more than the other slots.
Thoughts? Talk folks, that is what this is about.
Richard Goetz
rickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
615 826-0792
