Quick Cancellations Hurting Broadcast Nets?

Five new broadcast network television shows have been canceled in the first seven weeks of the new TV season and some industry observers are wondering if the networks are pulling the plug too soon.

“The broadcast networks should not forget that Cheers started its tremendously successful 11-year run as the lowest rated show of the week,” said Steve Sternberg, veteran media agency research analyst who now authors his own newsletter.

Sternberg says many other TV “classics” like Dallas, Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, The X-Files and even the current Fox hit drama House needed time to catch on.

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