Community Chat

[Buck-i-Nana]

It's CNN Headline News, thus you only get the headlines and a bit of background. The full story is carried on CNN. I always hated it when they started the crime and trial programs at night.

[wildcherry]

HLN is not the only channel I've wondered what happened to.

[bells4me]

They have gone downhill since the Jodi Arias trial. Don't think they'll be on air much longer.

[Jannabelle]

On 9/19/2014 Complicated said:

If there is not a big trial to exploit, they are lost. They overstaffed for Arias and Anthony, and then once those cash cows were done, ratings went down. They could no longer support all the legal eagles, and so now it is headline news bits repeated all day and a lot of cheap pre made crime shows at night.

BTW: If anyone watched the Martin MacNeil trial, he was finally sentenced today. 15-life plus 1-15 for another charge, and then another charge (sep trial) sentencing earlier this week another 1-15.

Thanks for the info, Marianne.......no trial has ever matched the Arias one, has it?

[Marianne1]

OJ, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias--the big three tv trials that I can think of.

[Jannabelle]

On 9/19/2014 Complicated said:

OJ, Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias--the big three tv trials that I can think of.

The first two I don't remember as being so long and drawn out,...I didn't watch OJ much at all.......and CA seemed to go by fast.

[Marianne1]

OJ's trial was televised for 134 days ( i just looked it up, I don't know that by heart, lol)

Casey's trial was May 24th- July5 (not counting jury selection)

Remember those were shortened by the not guilty verdicts.

Arias started Jan 2 and ended with the penalty phase mistrial on May 23rd. Of course, it is not done yet.

AZ is weird because of their court being dark one day a week, and then there were a ton of other delays during the trial, and after, of course.

[SugarNSpice]

On 9/19/2014 Complicated said:

If there is not a big trial to exploit, they are lost. They overstaffed for Arias and Anthony, and then once those cash cows were done, ratings went down. They could no longer support all the legal eagles, and so now it is headline news bits repeated all day and a lot of cheap pre made crime shows at night.

BTW: If anyone watched the Martin MacNeil trial, he was finally sentenced today. 15-life plus 1-15 for another charge, and then another charge (sep trial) sentencing earlier this week another 1-15.

Actually they aren't lost. They are restructuring and developing programming that is Social Media friendly. Many of the new shows, shows in development will already have a heavy social media following. The millennials are on social media, create viral videos, blogs, etc. This is one of the new formulas that many of the networks are looking for.

[Marianne1]

On 9/19/2014 SugarNSpice said:

On 9/19/2014 Complicated said:

If there is not a big trial to exploit, they are lost. They overstaffed for Arias and Anthony, and then once those cash cows were done, ratings went down. They could no longer support all the legal eagles, and so now it is headline news bits repeated all day and a lot of cheap pre made crime shows at night.

BTW: If anyone watched the Martin MacNeil trial, he was finally sentenced today. 15-life plus 1-15 for another charge, and then another charge (sep trial) sentencing earlier this week another 1-15.

Actually they aren't lost. They are restructuring and developing programming that is Social Media friendly. Many of the new shows, shows in development will already have a heavy social media following. The millennials are on social media, create viral videos, blogs, etc. This is one of the new formulas that many of the networks are looking for.

well, they appear lost. They have lost a large portion of their audience, even if it was at artificially high rates during the trial coverage.

[SugarNSpice]

On 9/19/2014 Complicated said:

On 9/19/2014 SugarNSpice said:

On 9/19/2014 Complicated said:

If there is not a big trial to exploit, they are lost. They overstaffed for Arias and Anthony, and then once those cash cows were done, ratings went down. They could no longer support all the legal eagles, and so now it is headline news bits repeated all day and a lot of cheap pre made crime shows at night.

BTW: If anyone watched the Martin MacNeil trial, he was finally sentenced today. 15-life plus 1-15 for another charge, and then another charge (sep trial) sentencing earlier this week another 1-15.

Actually they aren't lost. They are restructuring and developing programming that is Social Media friendly. Many of the new shows, shows in development will already have a heavy social media following. The millennials are on social media, create viral videos, blogs, etc. This is one of the new formulas that many of the networks are looking for.

well, they appear lost. They have lost a large portion of their audience, even if it was at artificially high rates during the trial coverage.

Time will tell if this trend grows. We keep an eye out for new talent with a large following. If we find talent that doesn't have a high following, one of the first things we tell them is they have to get their numbers up "WAY UP!"

Everyone is looking for the next viral star. It can be from a video, a blog, a rant on Facebook, etc.