Timing Not Best For Couric's Syndie Debut
While the former CBS Evening News anchor has one of the highest profiles on TV, observers say there are number of roadblocks, including the fact that broadcasting isn’t what it used to be, even a few years ago. The size of the broadcast daytime audience is smaller than in Winfrey’s prime, whittled away by scores of cable channels. will look piddling compared to the riches awaiting her in syndication, she has probably missed the gravy train as daytime audiences shrink and stations economize.“The timing is not ideal,” says Bill Carroll, VP of programming for Katz Television, counting up the obstacles. “It’s coming a full year after Oprah so new viewing habits will have been set. It’s coming at the beginning of the second year of most three-year contracts for other talk shows so there aren’t many good spots on the schedule to put her. And it’s coming in 2012, which hopefully will be a good election year for TV. But you don’t know about 2013, which in the cycle should be an off year.”
As Carroll says, established daytime talk shows — Dr. Phil — have deals with stations that take them through 2013 or 2014, and have locked up the prime 4 p.m. time slot in most markets.
So, they’ll get first dibs at claiming what’s left of the 4 p.m. audience Oprah Winfrey captivated at that time for two decades and abandoned just last month so that she could pay more attention to her cable network, OWN, a joint venture with Discovery Communications.
Couric is likely to settle in at 3 p.m. in most markets. And the only reason 3 p.m. is available is because ABC is giving that network hour back to affiliates to program — essentially creating TV real estate that if not on the beach is then very close to it.
ABC’s eight owned stations have already said they will air Couric at 3 p.m., giving the show clearance in 23% of the country. Disney-ABC Domestic Syndication, which has the task of clearing the show throughout the rest of the country, hopes the ABC affiliates will follow the O&Os’ lead.
Of course, those affiliates may turn elsewhere. Rival syndicators are not likely to concede the 3 p.m. slot to Disney-ABC. They may come up with shows of their own.
Because the show will likely air at 3 p.m. (or even in the morning on some stations), syndicators can’t license the show for as much money as a 4 o’clock show, or charge advertisers as much.
Dr Oz And Oprah - News
So the idea of Couric contending to become the “next Oprah” may make a nice headline on Entertainment Tonight, but it's no more plausible than making that claim for Dr. Oz, which will take the 4 pm slot Winfrey had at dozens of stations this fall.
Oprah, on the other hand, has an empire she has built up over the past 25 years. She carefully groomed protegees like Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. Oz, both of whom contribute to Oprah's coffers. She has a magazine, a radio station and now a cable network.
Dr. Mehmet Oz promotes the "The Dr. Oz Show" at Grand Central Terminal, May 26, 2011, in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images) "Oprah had to teach me that people don't change what they do based on what they know," Oz told ABC
Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and Dr. Oz own part of Sharecare. Other New Evolution assets include Hard Candy Fitness, a joint venture with Madonna of six gyms. Here's a secondary sale involving…springs: The private equity backers of MW Industries Inc
Team Oprah plans a daylong event at the Georgia World Congress Center aimed at readers of “O, The Oprah Magazine.” The event will feature speakers including O-faves Suze Orman, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Nate Berkus. Oprah visited Ron Clark Academy's graduation
Dr. Oz is my new Oprah « Cosmopolitan Primal Girl
If you have read this blog before, then you know I love a reason to write Oprah into a blog post (see here and here and here ). I had really hoped for 1 last Oprah post before her farewell season ended a couple of weeks ago. I even PVR’d her final episode on dieting and anxiously watched with the hopes of finding something to rip apart in a blog post. Alas, her final episode on diets gave me nothing to work with as it only featured people’s transformations – I have to admit it was kind of a good episode. Oprah, you may not have given me one more opportunity to blog about you, but at least I still have your protégé Dr. Oz. He did a show 2 weeks ago titled, “ Are Carbs the new cocaine? ” which was the exact title of a Details magazine article published a few months ago and featured the same pieces of info. Well Dr. Oz, you did not disappoint…here goes my rant…
I could sum this up by saying that Dr. Oz’s prescription for beating carb cravings is the equivalent to giving methadone to a heroin addict. Or giving “non-alcoholic” beer to an alcoholic. Seriously, I could end this post right now. But I’m just getting started, so let’s continue….
The show featured women (obviously) who are addicted to various things like pasta, bread and fries – he featured each of them and they all said that they could not stop eating these foods and it was controlling their life. To me this sounds like a serious problem which would require a major dietary transformation and help to address the emotional cause of their eating behaviour. Apparently it doesn’t need to be that complicated because Dr. Oz’s “28 DAY PLAN !!” for kicking your carb cravings was here to save the day! I was hoping for some recommendations that actually take into consideration your body’s biology and mechanisms for controlling hunger and cravings such as insulin and leptin . Alas, I was wrong. Dr. Oz’s prescription for kicking your carb cravings was to switch to UNLIMITED (I repeat UNLIMITED) “Good Carbs” like whole wheat pasta and brown rice. He might as well have given each of the women heroin to at least get them to zone out into a happy place at meal time.
There are so many things wrong with this recommendation, but I will only focus on 3:
1. Would you give non-alcoholic beer to an alcoholic? Of course not! So why would it make any sense to give a carb addict something that basically tastes exactly the same and has the same composition as regular carbs. The cascade of events that occur from consuming these foods would be slightly different in that they would not increase your blood glucose levels as quickly (though still much faster than say, asparagus), however they still contain the opiod triggering components (ie: gluten) that stimulates the same portion of your brain as cocaine. I highly doubt this protocol is going to do anything other than make them swap one addiction for a higher fibre alternative. Personally, when I switched to “Good Carbs” (back in my low-fat days of my early 20’s pre-Crossfit) I used to inhale them just as easily as “Bad Carbs.” It makes so much more sense to give someone something completely different…like how about vegetables and good fats? Cracking out on broccoli and salmon would be pretty impossible and even if someone succeeded in doing so the ramifications would likely be more positive than negative (Oh no, you OD’d on calcium!!).
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Actually, I think Dr. Oz tries his best. And he's definitely come around on the his level of thyroid knowledge post-Oprah
If Dr. Oz says it works then by all means! Come on, give it a try. My sessions are $40/hr and you'll be amazed...