Thanks for the shoutout. “Viewsers” has been something of an ongoing joke at LR (7 years and counting, in fact) and I think I regret having used it in the title of this piece. It’s getting more critique than the piece itself.

You have caught on to the larger point here – money. I’m fine with stations making money. In fact – I want them to make MORE money. It’s just that they’re going about it in an old-school way. Filling a page with as many banners and buttons as you can is no way to make money. A spartan site with targeted advertising is the way to do this. RSS advertising is the way to do this.

TV sites don’t know what they want to be. They think they have to service the “master” – the TV show. It’s nonsense. They need to service the community. Until they do that, there’s no money – and no reason to visit, either.

Again – thanks for the link and the excellent analysis.

Steve Safran
Lost Remote