TV and appointment viewing is a thing of the past for the youth.
If it's possible, I binge. There are other shows, like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' I watch and have to wait a week.
Gone are the days when everyone had to tune in at the same time and channel each week to watch the newest episodes of a favorite show.
What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.
HQ kind of hearkens back to that old method of watching live television, when you couldn't DVR it.
We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.
They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
TV is changing in terms of how we are consuming sports. Appointment viewing no longer exists, as between social media and the Internet, people already have the news and can get the highlights - so now people want the opinions.
There's certain things like scripted dramas that - they're either topical or such water-cooler moments that I think that they'll be consumed within 48 hours. You don't have to consume them at 9:00 at night, but you want to consume them within the first couple of days so that you can talk to your friends about it.
Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.
