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McGrady
Bending Unit
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« Reply #5 on: 02-18-2002 17:06 »
« Last Edit on: 02-18-2002 17:06 »
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Impact: maybe it would beat King of the Hill if Futurama was aired more often. The ratings for Futurama were superior to the ratings for King of the Hill when Futurama was on during Tuesday. Futurama was then moved to Sunday to bolster the weak ratings of King of the Hill (compared to the Simpsons).
For about 1/2 a season, Futurama was rated higher than King of the Hill, and even 60 minutes; then baseball started going into Futurama's time slot, much like football is doing now. Fox rarely, if ever, would show previews for Futurama, as it would be pre-empted so many times. They allowed Futurama to be pre-empted an entire season, and not even allowing King of the Hill to get off by one day; virtually cancelling one show when another show is an equal performer makes some things obvious.
The market share for Futurama and King of the Hill are different. King of the Hill's 6:30/7:30 timeslot has more viewers. Where Futurama might get a 4.0/8, King of the Hill has gotten many many times a barely higher than Futurama... such as 4.5/8. Same percent (second number is percent); different number of viewers.
Many people who watch Futurama also watch the Simpsons; they leave the channel on during King of the Hill. Stick a show without a following on before koth, and the ratings will drop several percent. Conversely, if you put Futurama on during King of the Hill's timeslot, people who watch King of the Hill might want to watch the Simpsons will watch Futurama. A 4-4.5(futurama-koth) might become skewed to a 3.5-5(koth-futurama).
In other words, King of the Hill barely does better than Futurama like it is now. If Futurama was switched with King of the Hill, Futurama would do better for the same reasons. It takes a great effort for Futurama to do better than King of the Hill; people actually have to tune in on a constantly pre-empted un-advertised show, and change the channel from a show in between the two things they watch... which actually happened in this case.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Basically FOX screwed Futurama's time slot but Futurama still pulls in the ratings depite the shabby treatment it's given.
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Just Chris
Urban Legend
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« Reply #8 on: 02-18-2002 17:37 »
« Last Edit on: 02-18-2002 17:37 »
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The fact that's annoying me is that it always had higher ratings than Futurama and I never even knew that. To be honest, I don't think ratings are fair because they are not curved for time slots and publicity. Of the three things McGrady said, number 2 should be the only thing that should rate the show's popularity. Also, what McGrady said about the ratings being altered by swapping time slots, I think that although 4.0/4.5 (futurama/hoth) and 3.5/5.0 (koth/futurama) produce the same mean (4.25) the former would produce a smaller range (0.5 versus the 1.5), which is what many networks want with their programming. Putting publicity aside, koth will probably decrease in ratings as Futurama's grows higher if it moves to 6:30. My solution: move Futurama to 7:30 so The Simpsons can wedge in to keep koth out of the way. A conistent range amongst their programs' ratings with no extremes is the ideal situation. If there are too many extremely high-rated shows, the likelihood of shows getting the boot would increase. With Fox it would be no problem for us; we will all want to do away with the cheesy reality shows, but until they come to their senses, they would still hold them in high regard.
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Allen
Professor
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I don't even undersatand how ratings work or how they're gotten
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Allen
Professor
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Yeah, it is Thanks!
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Allen
Professor
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Isn't it scary when what you thought was fantasy takes on a disturbing reality? Anyway, KoTH is okay, but Futurama is much better.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Just Chris: If Fox starts their own Futurama board, we should take over it before the idiot fans do Umm, the Official Fox Futurama Message Board has been in existance for over a year.
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Allen
Professor
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I like "People who hate Football are Gay". I've never had my preference decided for me :Looks around: Ok, I'm not gay and I don't want to be.
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Allen
Professor
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I noticed that too
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Nixorbo: Umm, the Official Fox Futurama Message Board has been in existance for over a year.
I'd not visited the official forum before, I'm glad, it is so lame compared to PEEL, do people get lobotomised when they sign up?
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