Frank and Ernest by Thaves for March 15, 2016
March 14, 2016
March 16, 2016
Transcript:
Frank: It says this is "Sweeps" week. Ernie: It seems more like a vacuum.
Frank: It says this is "Sweeps" week. Ernie: It seems more like a vacuum.
TREEINTHEWIND over 8 years ago
My head and it seem to have met a mutual compatibility area……..
TREEINTHEWIND over 8 years ago
I always wonder who is in charge of the sweeps……… they can’t seem to get it right and have to keep doing it over…….
TREEINTHEWIND over 8 years ago
Who has the remote?
awgiedawgie Premium Member over 8 years ago
Nature abhors a vacuum. So do dogs.
Tigdi over 8 years ago
“Sweeps” periods are: February, May, July and November.
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
Uh huh…
tbally57 over 8 years ago
Sweeps is when local stations and especially the local news gets rated to set advertising rates until the next Sweeps in the months shown above. The networks help their affiliates by putting on special episodes or cliffhangers and the local news does more investigative stories or anything with sex involved to get attention. The other weeks of the year the networks shows are rated and all is now complicated by the use of DVRs and Tivo to time shift shows to when the viewer can watch.
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly over 8 years ago
Black hole!
adrianrune over 8 years ago
Sweep weeks are right up there with the local Public Television Stations raising funds (although I love and support Public Television). Showing special programming to attract viewers; programming you probably won’t see again until the next sweeps. But with Public TV, they either delay my favorite programs or preempt them.
hippogriff over 8 years ago
Adrian RuneAnd replace the ones we like with boilerplate of “stars” dead for decades..Jim KernerThe worst is the Dallas PBS fundraiser preempting a great little half hour weekly called Religion and Ethics, and others for two weeks and three weekends of Mammon.
K M over 8 years ago
One of the first (if not the first) FCC Commissioners infamously referred to TV as a vast wasteland. Looking around the TV landscape these days, I’m convinced he didn’t know the half of it.