Mark Simone on 710 W OR

Hey, well, a lot to talk about this hour.

You mentioned it before.

Sherry Redstone was the one that decided to sell cbs to uh who was a sky whatever

who bought it uh larry ellison's son david ellison and she got rid of cbs it's a good business

decision just because network television is declining every day it's just dropping and dropping

and drop you know this that used to be the biggest thing of all network television CBS ABC NBC

we're making a fortune but that's because in the good old days if uh Dallas was on Friday nights at

10 o'clock or 9 o'clock or whenever it was on, it was a big show on television, it would have 40 million viewers, 50 million viewers.

The Dean Martin Show, Thursday nights, 10 o'clock, why, that would be 45 million viewers.

The Ed Sullivan Show sometimes would get to 50 million viewers. You know how many

viewers that is? How much money you make on that? Well, network television has been slipping and

slipping and declining and people don't watch it anymore. Well, now you could be the number one

primetime drama. You could be Blue Bloods. Friday nights at 10 o'clock three million people that's like

one-tenth of what it used to be three million people so you're not making uh advertising revenues

based on how many people are watching so if you go from 45 million to three million

your revenue is like down 90%. So that's one reason

Blue Bloods got canceled. It was doing great. It was the best show on television, the best

drama. It was highest rated drama. But they can't afford it anymore. They can't afford car

chases. And you've seen when they're filming a movie.

It's 42 trucks and 96 trailers and a crew of 180 people out in the street permits.

It costs a fortune every day.

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