The tough 2013-14 broadcast television season claimed one high-level executive’s job when Kevin Reilly left Fox last week. A look at what’s up with the networks.
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Ad-supported network television is in trouble, and that is a problem for all four (or five, including The CW) broadcasters. The networks, burdened both by a mandated number of hours of airtime and by legacy ideas that simply don't work anymore, are fighting a tide that will never reverse. So other than NBC, which was rebuilding last season and then was No. 1 this season, every network was down in 2013-14. And yes, in the future there will be new hits, and some of them will be big hits. But the more common threads are record-low ratings, and a storming-the-beach-at-Normandy approach to the fall rollout that results in few survivors. Yet as long as there is money to be made — and there still is — network television will stay pretty much the same. Until the end times are truly upon us. Which will happen soon enough! In the meantime, let's take a look at how the networks fared during the past season.
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