‘Glee’ Among GLAAD Media Awards Winners

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• Fans of Fox’s conservative news format must be thrilled. Maybe we’ll get to see Glenn Beck cry on the air again. LOL

  Comment by Faux News — Sunday April 18, 2010 @ 5:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Fox News is run by Roger Ailes. Fox News is the most profitable division of News Corp, putting out about $1 billion in operating profits per year, according to a recent NYT piece. They do this by appealing to a niche audience: about half the country. By contrast, Fox Broadcasting produces about $100 million in operating profit per year IIRC last quarter’s report by News Corp.

  Sure, GLAAD awards are nice. They also cement anything to do with singing and dancing as “gay.” Guaranteeing a gay-female ghetto audience.

  Can Fox Broadcasting, or NBC, or ABC, etc. survive on a narrow viewership of women/gays, excluding social conservatives (and men, who detest “gay” stuff)??

  My guess is no, not really, given high unemployment, no real economic recovery, and lots of alternatives.

  I’m sure Glee is well written, outstandingly performed, and technically, very very good. It also has about zero appeal to about half the country, particularly men. Even the most liberal guy would rather watch baseball than gay singing and dancing.

  Lets put it this way: Fox News produces ten times as much operating profits as Fox Broadcasting.

  Comment by whiskey — Sunday April 18, 2010 @ 6:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Swigging a brew and scratching your balls while you tapped that one out Whiskey? The whole country doesn’t have to watch GLEE for it to be on the air. Zero appeal to you perhaps but i imagine between Fox News and Deadliest Catch and your old videotapes, your viewing time is covered and that’s good you got the right to watch whatever but that Gay stuff as you call it singing and dancing, doesn’t stop men from watching. That comment is you assuming the whole country thinks just like you, by Fox numbers they do not.

    Comment by Sammyk — Monday April 19, 2010 @ 7:58am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Why does TV have to be for old, white guys? That’s the whole point of TV. A little democratization is a good idea. LOVE GLEE.

      Comment by Sammy's Girl — Monday April 19, 2010 @ 10:03am PDT  Reply to this post

      • “Why does TV have to be for old, white guys?”

        It doesn’t. And it isn’t. And nobody is asking that it be only that. But how about some of it? How about some of it for guys old or young straight guys. Seems like the just about all the networks (broadcast and cable) have abandoned the guys and market only to women and gays if we are to judge by the story lines and the casting.

        Seems like every time we get a show that has promise of straight ahead guy appeal, somewhere along the way the network has to muck it up. Case in point: The Unit. Started off great. Hard core action adventure. Guys on missions. Then it it became obvious the suits got into it with their “notes” and the direction to get more appeal to the female audience. So we were then treated to the distractions of the soap opera sub plots and ultimately the ridiculous story lines that involved the wives in the missions. Of course the ratings tanked and the show was canceled.

        Someday an advertise or two will rediscover the idea that men have money to spend, too.

        Comment by justaguy — Monday April 19, 2010 @ 11:49am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Uh…

    http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/04/glee-rockets-up-the-ratings.html

    Glee: “The FOX series scored the biggest audience in its short history Tuesday, going from cult favorite to top-20 show in the span of one hour. The headline numbers are 13.66 million viewers — more than 5 million above its season average of 7.95 million — and a 5.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, a bump of two full points over its fall run.”

    Fox News:
    http://www.ajc.com/business/cnns-ratings-continue-to-422791.html

    “That’s what Fox News had in terms of cable ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research. The network captured its largest average total day audience – 1.30 million total – in its 14-year-history” And sure, some individual Fox News shows hit 2 or 3 million viewers. Let me know when they hit Glee’s average–7 million.

    Fox News, which got 1.3 million viewers, is appealing to more Americans than Glee, which got 13 million viewers this week. Gotcha.

    What the heck’s with the weird “operating profit” nonsense? TV is measured in RATINGS. Period. Is there a reason you didn’t bring those up? Claiming that a show has “zero appeal” to half the country, when it’s outscoring your “popular” example 10 to 1 is–how can I put this politely–delusional.

    Comment by g — Monday April 19, 2010 @ 11:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Someone think of the straight white men!!!

  Oh, will someone PLEASE think of the straight white men!!!!

  Comment by RLS — Tuesday April 20, 2010 @ 6:51am PDT  Reply to this post