Bob's Down With the Self-Deprecation... and I Like It

[foodnetworkaddict.com]

Bob Tuschman's blog "Bob's Blog" is already turning into quite a valuable resource for Food Network fans. A bunch of questions (and complaints) were posted and Bob has already tackled several of them...



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[ibcheft]

I posted to Bobs answer to some of the question he answered, I really do not understand where they get their information on who is watching and when but the way he answered the question about the instructional shows in the evening was I think just rude to the viewers who asked about it, and me being one of them found his excuse just disrespectful of us long time viewers, and in my post told him so. I think they need to check the information about their viewers, and what is one hour after prime time going to hurt them ? Now I am going to start checking the sponsors of the shows and start email them especially the good one and tell them how I buy their product because of the show, and the others well I will tell them how I won't be purchasing their products if the keep sponsoring the show in the wrong time slot. I know one little email won't do any thing but bring satisfaction to me knowing at least I spoke or email my 2 cents

[Pluff Mudder]

Well, I posted my comments on "Bob's Blog" about not having any of the cooking shows on at night. Here's what I said:

“I know there’s a large group who would love to watch our cooking shows at night. But there’s a much larger group (quite a sizeable majority, actually) that prefers our evening programming to be more story driven and entertaining than straight instructional.”

Why can’t you do a mix of non-instructional and instructional shows at night and make everyone happy instead of catering to one group? I’m one of those who would love to see the Sat. and Sun. cooking shows repeated during the week night-time.

IMO, there seems to be too many repeats during the week of some of these non-instructional shows on at night such as the competition shows, Unwrapped, Ace of Cakes and Triple D. Instead of airing back to back episodes of these several times a week, just do it once a week and replace them with some of the cooking shows.

I don’t know where you get your “numbers” from, but everyone I know on several cooking boards (one totally a FN fan board) feels the way I do. Why don’t you have a poll here on the FN.com site and see what the fans really say?

[tuthead]

I don’t know where you get your “numbers” from, but everyone I know on several cooking boards (one totally a FN fan board) feels the way I do. Why don’t you have a poll here on the FN.com site and see what the fans really say?

I think their "numbers" say the opposite of what you expect them to say. I have seen stories that say Food Network's viewership is as high now as it has ever been. (Broadcasting & Cable Article) There must be something that their programming mix now has that it did not previously have. And people on cooking boards are probably going to continue to watch the network even if the mix isn't exactly to their liking. FN should be interested in getting the more casual viewers, which they seem to be doing.

And everybody talks about the inconvenient times that shows air. Has anybody heard of Tivo? They work great and for the cost of one of one failed experiment recipe every month, you could watch those shows from the bad time slots whenever you want.

[ibcheft]

Well yes I use DVR, but I also have a wife who is a realty TV addict and uses the DVR to the max. I am going to have to get the new one from At&T that does 4 shows at a time and then you can watch it on any TV in the house. Right now I get Essence of Emeril and Emeril Live at there respective times, as soon as she is home she is watching her DVRed shows then comes the reality shows in the evening, so if they would just repeat the shows from 11 to 12 eastern, 10 to 11 central I would be happy, and I really do not think that is asking to much, since the others shows all start a 6:00 to 10:00 here then repeat from 10:00 pm to 2:00 am, same shows ? Also if he is noticing a trend in the comments that people want more instructional in the evenings, and are taking the time to write the comments, I woulds assume it also must be a trend with the people who are just watching and not writing. Along with I do not see many comments on wanting more competition or chanllege shows ? this is also what I put under the the question blog that Bob did,


I too am from the Foodnetworkfans web forum, and if you are seeing a trend here of people who are wanting more instructional TV in the evening, would you not think that maybe that is a trend to for people who are not writing in ? I do not see a trend of people asking for more competition, travel, docusoaps, and such. The science TV and chef challenges are somewhat instructional, but not to the point of actually educational cooking. thank you

[Pluff Mudder]

Originally Posted by tuthead

I have seen stories that say Food Network's viewership is as high now as it has ever been. (Broadcasting & Cable Article)

That article is almost 8 months old (Broadcasting & Cable, 2/11/2008), so the numbers they talk about in it had to come from the months prior to that... the "holiday" months when FN runs Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas specials which naturally drawn in larger groups of viewers.

And, I just looked at the schedule for this week and I see they have 7 hours of those challenge shows on there. Why so many? That's two night's worth of prime time scheduling given to this show. You can only see so many cakes collapse or sugar creations break.

[ibcheft]

Well it seems my invite to come read our forum of over a 1000 members and points of view was deleted, seems like than you do not want to read what your viewers think, but a blogger who has one point of view and will appear on your network. That pretty much sums up the network I guess, we as viewers are going to get what you decide we need to see and you are not going to listen to what your viewers really want, I do not know who you are polling to find out what you viewers want to see, but it seems not your viewers. That just tells me what type of personal they have working at the network it is no wonder your long time chefs are leaving, I would to.

This is what I posted the second time, since the after posting the first time they deleted it. I had ask Bob if he reads FNA why not come to the forum and read what a 1000 members think of the shows and put a link for him to follow guess, they did not like that, its gone now. Oh well I tried, seems like after reading all the comments to his blogs, there are many of us who feel very much the same way, and many who do not.

[Food Network Fan]

They probably thought you were just trying to advertise for the forum. I really don't want them to become irritated with my website. I still love the food network.