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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2h

For comparison's sake, that night's SHARK TANK on ABC at 10 notched a 0.22 in L+3 A18-49, while Fox's 8 and 9 p.m. game shows averaged a 0.29 and 0.32, respectively.

Top 3 demo shows for the night?

SURVIVOR (0.73)--CBS
CHI FI (0.52)--NBC
SHIFTING GEARS (0.49)--ABC

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2h

In viewers, GOLDEN BACHELOR notched.a mere 2.6M L+3, ranking 9th among all network shows. It even finished below Fox's THE FLOOR (2.8M).

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2h

While it's possible it's over performing on Hulu, the current season of THE GOLDEN BACHELOR is off to a shaky start for ABC.

The show's Oct. 1 episode averaged a 0.21 in A18-49 even after three days of DVR replays, finishing last behind EVERY other show on the Big 4 nets that Wednesday

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 5h

this is why the good lord created pre-cut bags of butternut squash (and other veggies.) I do not trust myself with a knife.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1d

She was an absolutely wonderful actress- and a rare and fascinating person. Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.

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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 1d

Saluting the legendary novelist Elmore Leonard, born on this day in 1925, with an all-day marathon of movies based on his crime stories, including Quentin Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN, now playing on Pluto TV Staff Picks: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer’s death. She described the online mob that got her fired as “state-sponsored censorship."

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d

Typos aside, there is simply no such thing.

ECGs are not an indicator of age.

They literally do not contain that information, either directly or indirectly.

This is just made up gobbledygook.

So, my question is: why?

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Times this week published a (detailed) story about Noem trashing a random country music singer for a song lyric she didn’t like. It has not covered Noem’s unprecedented use of official channels to spread political propaganda/lies.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting…

Pictures of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Shutdown America:
A CNN Town Hall with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Moderated by Kaitlan Collins
Wednesday 9 pm ET

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Deck the Hallmark Podcast @deckthehallmark.bsky.social · 2d

🎄🎉 We’re just ONE WEEK AWAY from our Season 8 Kickoff Marathon! 🎉🎄

We’ll be live streaming for over 24 hours, watching Hallmark Christmas movies, and raising money for @letterscharity! ❤️✉️

It all kicks off next Friday at 6PM—don’t miss it!
👉 deckthehallmark.com/marathon

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T Dog Media @tdogmedia.bsky.social · 2d

WGN just aired a report on this just now and blurred her face and did not announce her name, saying it is "station policy" not to name or show people who are "not charged".

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

This story has been picked up by multiple news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Fox-owned station in the city.

You know which Chicago outlet doesn't appear to have a story about this on its website?

Brockman's employer, @wgntv.com

WGN's owner? Nexstar

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

I have theories, but...

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

WGN does still have its 2023 press release touting Brockman's Emmy win for the station.

And I'm sure it WILL cover this at some point. But it's hard not to wonder why the station has issued a statement-- a very non-specific, non-committal one-- about this but NOT covered it on its own website.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

This story has been picked up by multiple news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Fox-owned station in the city.

You know which Chicago outlet doesn't appear to have a story about this on its website?

Brockman's employer, @wgntv.com

WGN's owner? Nexstar

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

Right? Actually don't think it's meant to be clickbait; it's clear once you get past the first sentence or if you look at the link that it's a movie review. I think it's just sloppily written. It happens! But, still: oy!

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

Read the room, @npr.org! You don't need to give people doomscrolling blood pressure spikes, however unintentional LOL

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Netflix has 12 pre-1980 films in October. They had as many as 21 in July.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) is now their oldest American film.

List in alt text. #FilmSky #Streaming

Netflix Pre-1980 Titles (Oct, 2025)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
WILLY WONKA (1971)
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974)
JAWS (1975)
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
THE SENTINEL (1977)
JAWS 2 (1978)
ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)
DRACULA (1979)
THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN (1979)
RICHARD PRYOR: LIVE IN CONCERT (1979)

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

CBS, meanwhile, got sold to Westinghouse.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile, not long after the CBS-QVC deal was announced, there was fierce speculation that Disney might want to step in and buy CBS instead. It didn’t—but of course, it *was* interested in the network TV business. In 1995, it announced plans to buy ABC parent Capital Cities.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

If Diller had ended up running CBS, there’s a good chance Leslie Moonves wouldn’t have ended up at CBS in 1995. And honestly, not sure Viacom would’ve ended up buying CBS, either.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

Kids, for a brief moment in July 1994, it looked like CBS and QVC were going to merge, with Barry Diller (who helped launch Fox in the 80s) taking over as head of CBS.

But then came a plot twist: Comcast decided it wanted QVC. With the help of another cable giant, it got it.

CBS Inc. and QVC Network Inc. confirmed yesterday that they were close to fashioning a merger that would bring together the network of Walter Cronkite and "Murphy Brown" and the company that put round-the-clock shopping into the nation's living rooms.
CBS's controlling shareholder and chairman, billionaire investor Laurence A. Tisch, declared that he was committed to completing a cash-and-stock deal with QVC that would be valued at $7.5 billion.
CBS "will not be shopped" to other bidders, Tisch said, in an unwitting pun on his intended partner. Many Wall Street analysts, however, predicted that other suitors for CBS would emerge.
The merged CBS-QVC would be run by Barry Diller, currently QVC's chief executive and a man widely considered one of the shrewdest creative minds in television history.

The Washington post

COMCAST'S BID TO BUY QVC DERAILS MERGER WITH CBS
CABLE FIRM MAKES SURPRISE $2.2 BILLION
OFFER

July 12, 1994
More than 31 years ago

By Paul Farhi
CBS Inc. last night said it has dropped its plan to merge with cable shopping network
QVC Inc. after a second cable company, Comcast Corp., made a surprise $2.2 billion bid for QVC.
Comcast's offer came on the eve of votes by the boards of QVC and CBS that would have likely approved their merger. But Comcast's offer of cash and stock valued at $44 per share was deemed more attractive than the complex package that CBS was offering QVC shareholders.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 3d

Yup: HIGH POTENTIAL was up in both viewers and demos this week vs. last.

alexp95.bsky.social @alexp95.bsky.social · 3d

Did High Potential benefit?

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 3d

The Kimmel ratings halo continued last week: JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE in Brooklyn was TV's most-watched late-night show from Sept 29-Oct 3, averaging 2.2M same-day viewers and a 0.22 in A18-49.

That's up 35% vs 2024's Bklyn week (1.6M) and +42% vs the show's average audience last season.

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