Comments on: CBS Loses Massive $12.5 BILLION With Write-down http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196 Nielsen TV Show Ratings, Data and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:03:04 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cesarrr http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30898 cesarrr Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:43:09 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30898 I don`t think this has anything to do with the performance of ONLY the CBS TV network. It's more about the CBS conglomerate. All the divisions, not just the TV network. And I don`t think keeping Moonlight would've been of much help. It'll probably get the same numbers that THE EX LIST gets now. I don`t think this has anything to do with the performance of ONLY the CBS TV network. It’s more about the CBS conglomerate. All the divisions, not just the TV network.
And I don`t think keeping Moonlight would’ve been of much help. It’ll probably get the same numbers that THE EX LIST gets now.

]]> By: Fin http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30854 Fin Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:32:59 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30854 ABCFanatic you didn't explain why, you just gave examples. ABCFanatic you didn’t explain why, you just gave examples.

]]> By: ABCFanatic http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30852 ABCFanatic Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:28:47 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30852 Mid-seasons shows are being pushed back till 09 because ABC saved Scrubs from NBC Lost will only 17 episodes for season 5 and season 4 started midseason of 2007 24 moved it midseason because of the writers strike The Bachelor is once a year and it always stars at midseason I think and it only has less than 12 episodes American Idol always starts at midseason Mid-seasons shows are being pushed back till 09 because

ABC saved Scrubs from NBC
Lost will only 17 episodes for season 5 and season 4 started midseason of 2007
24 moved it midseason because of the writers strike
The Bachelor is once a year and it always stars at midseason I think and it only has less than 12 episodes
American Idol always starts at midseason

]]> By: Mel http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30767 Mel Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:40:33 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30767 SNORT! That's brilliant, Bill. Maybe that's why some mid-season shows are being pushed back til 09, the ad sales market seems to be circling the bowl. SNORT! That’s brilliant, Bill. Maybe that’s why some mid-season shows are being pushed back til 09, the ad sales market seems to be circling the bowl.

]]> By: Angie http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30762 Angie Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:26:51 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30762 I wonder how this affects the CW . . . I get the impression Warner Bros. is itching to pull the plug on that network. I wonder how this affects the CW . . . I get the impression Warner Bros. is itching to pull the plug on that network.

]]> By: Vader http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30689 Vader Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:38:29 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30689 Sounds like something NBC or the CW would try, Thunder Mountain, not CBS. ;) Sounds like something NBC or the CW would try, Thunder Mountain, not CBS. ;)

]]> By: Thunder Mountain http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30639 Thunder Mountain Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:20:45 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30639 MOONLIGHT? Maybe they could get Bruce Willis, Cybill Shephard and Alex O'Loughlin together to brink back MOONLIGHTING - only this time with a vampires. And toss in that woman from UGLY BETTY to replace the old receptionist. MOONLIGHT? Maybe they could get Bruce Willis, Cybill Shephard and Alex O’Loughlin together to brink back MOONLIGHTING – only this time with a vampires. And toss in that woman from UGLY BETTY to replace the old receptionist.

]]> By: Thunder Mountain http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30636 Thunder Mountain Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:15:13 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30636 If they hadnt cancelled shows like Moonlight, Swingtown and Jericho the losses would have been higher. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cbs-swings-125-billion-loss/story.aspx?guid=%7BB8D8BE64%2D6E1C%2D4A88%2DB685%2D05794BF6D864%7D&siteid=yhoof "Like other large media companies, CBS owns a number of TV and radio stations, which have seen their market values dip well below their book values, requiring CBS to note the discrepancy and write down the difference. " The 14 billion is a one time book keeping entry involving lower values on CBS owned assets, which is why the stock is up 5% today. It would be if you had a house in CA you bought for $1,000,000 then it was appraised at $650,000 and you earned $100,000 in wages. So if you said "Im reporting a 2008 net loss of $250,000". Its not like the $350,000 came directly out of pocket. Its just that its no longer available if you sold. It sounds worse than it is, since eventually the house value will rise again - some day since its just a paper loss. Same deal goes with everyone 401K's its just a paper loss. Same way it was back in 2000 and in 1987. If they hadnt cancelled shows like Moonlight, Swingtown and Jericho the losses would have been higher.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cbs-swings-125-billion-loss/story.aspx?guid=%7BB8D8BE64%2D6E1C%2D4A88%2DB685%2D05794BF6D864%7D&siteid=yhoof

“Like other large media companies, CBS owns a number of TV and radio stations, which have seen their market values dip well below their book values, requiring CBS to note the discrepancy and write down the difference. ”

The 14 billion is a one time book keeping entry involving lower values on CBS owned assets, which is why the stock is up 5% today. It would be if you had a house in CA you bought for $1,000,000 then it was appraised at $650,000 and you earned $100,000 in wages. So if you said “Im reporting a 2008 net loss of $250,000″. Its not like the $350,000 came directly out of pocket. Its just that its no longer available if you sold. It sounds worse than it is, since eventually the house value will rise again – some day since its just a paper loss. Same deal goes with everyone 401K’s its just a paper loss. Same way it was back in 2000 and in 1987.

]]> By: Sam http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30615 Sam Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:42:09 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30615 Moonlight??! I'm still salty over them canning Threshold. But seriously, what's a moonlight? ^.^ Moonlight??! I’m still salty over them canning Threshold.

But seriously, what’s a moonlight? ^.^

]]> By: Holly http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30613 Holly Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:32:26 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30613 LOL! LOL!

]]> By: Robert Seidman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30612 Robert Seidman Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:32:11 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30612 very well played. very well played.

]]> By: Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/30/cbs-loses-massive-125-billion-with-write-down/7196#comment-30611 Bill Gorman Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:27:02 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=7196#comment-30611 If only they hadn't cancelled Moonlight! If only they hadn’t cancelled Moonlight!

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