{"id":209,"date":"2006-12-06T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/12\/late-night-news-feeling-the-squeeze.html"},"modified":"2006-12-06T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T03:20:00","slug":"late-night-news-feeling-the-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/late-night-news-feeling-the-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-night news feeling the squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/11\/29\/AR2006112901553.html\">Washingtonpost.com reports on the precipitous decline in viewership<\/a> of late-night newscasts in its region: more than 10% on average compared to last year. Such dropoffs are unheard of in the relatively stable media world. The culprit is apparently declines in the quality of prime-time network programming, which typically swings viewers into the late news. As networks have cut budgets in response to falling viewership, a domino effect has taken hold and now the local affiliates are hurting.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the beginning of the end of television news? The average age of an evening news viewer is now 60. Late-night has been the one salvation of the broadcast business, but even that may fall by the wayside. News has always been a low-margin business for TV stations. In the future, will they even bother to offer news any more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washingtonpost.com reports on the precipitous decline in viewership of late-night newscasts in its region: more than 10% on average compared to last year. Such dropoffs are unheard of in the relatively stable media world. The culprit is apparently declines in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/late-night-news-feeling-the-squeeze\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-3n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}