Mark Simone on 710 W OR

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

So, 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 dropping. You know, that used to be the biggest thing of all, network television, CBS, ABC, NBC.

We were making a fortune. But that's because in the good old days, if 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

prime time drama. You could be Blue Bloods. Friday nights at 10 o'clock, 3 million people.

That's like one-tenth of what it used to be.

Three million people.

So you're not making advertising revenues based on how many people are watching.

So if you go from 45 million to 3 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.

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