Why has NICK at NITE & TVLand disrespected 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s Sitcoms?

[Merry24]

When First launched NICK at NITE & TVLand respected programming of the 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s and saw so much success! Including the creativity on promoting its programming with jingles.Why do both channels not Return to this concept?

I would think it would show success again. Considering not everyone gets all the overair channels like Me TV & Antenna TV & Decades & Light TV and etc.

I would have NICK at NITE air Sitcoms from the 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s.
I would have TVLand air programming from the 1950’s thru Today.

Do you think NICK at NITE & TVLand will ever Respect it’s original Concept ever again?

[Duster76]

When First launched NICK at NITE & TVLand respected programming of the 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s and saw so much success! Including the creativity on promoting its programming with jingles.Why do both channels not Return to this concept?

I would think it would show success again. Considering not everyone gets all the overair channels like Me TV & Antenna TV & Decades & Light TV and etc.

I would have NICK at NITE air Sitcoms from the 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s.
I would have TVLand air programming from the 1950’s thru Today.

Do you think NICK at NITE & TVLand will ever Respect it’s original Concept ever again?
You asked:

Why do both channels not Return to this concept?

One word, Demographics.

The Baby Boom generation, 1946-64, the first generation that grew up with television was right where advertisers wanted them, located in the single most lucrative demo group of them all, 35-54. And better yet we were all at the younger end of the demo (some were still approaching the demo!). Think about the age of an individual at the midway point of that generation (1955), in 1985 when Nick At Nite started that individual was only 30. The glory days of Nick At Nite was really the 90's, the format was beautifully positioned.

As we all know, and the old song goes ("Laughing" Guess Who), "time goes slowly, but it carries on, and now the best years have come and gone". Fast forward to 2005, that 30 year old born in 1955 when the format formally launched was now 50. Advertisers were still looking to market in that same demo, but the shows of the 50's and 60's and 70's were more likely to be pulling in people exiting or soon to be exiting the demo than individuals in the core of the demo.

I write all this with a heavy heart, but it is what it is.

You Asked:

Do you think NICK at NITE & TVLand will ever Respect it’s original Concept ever again?

Nick At Nite will not go back to showing programs from the 50's-70's, TV Land may morph into something entirely different, it seems to me Viacom is in search of an exit strategy for TV Land.

One final point, with all the cord cutting we read about, I believe in the next decade we will see a lot of consolidation and many of these stations will disappear altogether.

[treky]

sadly, I think you're right. Look at what's happened to Antenna TV.

Antenna TV and ME TV used to be great replacements for Nick at Nite and TV Land, now just ME TV is but sadly they're starting to show cracks now.

[treky]

Originally Posted by Merry24

When First launched NICK at NITE & TVLand respected programming of the 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s and saw so much success! Including the creativity on promoting its programming with jingles.Why do both channels not Return to this concept?

I would think it would show success again. Considering not everyone gets all the overair channels like Me TV & Antenna TV & Decades & Light TV and etc.

I would have NICK at NITE air Sitcoms from the 1950’s & 1960’s & 1970’s.
I would have TVLand air programming from the 1950’s thru Today.

Do you think NICK at NITE & TVLand will ever Respect it’s original Concept ever again?

in a word; no.

[favoriteshow]

A few of the 70's sitcoms have Viacom's Logo as their home, including Three's Company, Laverne & Shirley, Alice and All in the Family. Bewitched was on end of last year, but it seems to be replaced by It's A Living. In addition to It's A Living, it has Facts of Life and Golden Girls from the 80s.

I think this is like TV Land 2 in a way. But I'm not sure if everyone who watches TV Land would be okay with Logo's commercials, but Logo's commercials don't bother me.

Also, Dish Network and Verizon Fios, among other carriers, keep Logo in their highest packages, excluding those with premium movie bundles, so the channel is not as easily accessible the same way as TV Land. It is available on Philo's $20/monthly package, or Sling (can be done for $35/month).

Pluto TV (now owned by Viacom) airs The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched on its Classic TV channel.

FETV airs a lot of classic shows, but it's not owned by Viacom. It's available on Dish Network, DirecTV and Fios, and Comcast in select markets. Comcast recently expanded FETV into Seattle, Sacramento and San Francisco markets. It was originally in Comcast in Chicago. I wish Comcast would add it on the east coast but maybe in a couple of years.

Many but not all of the same older shows on cable and over the air subchannels are available without commercials on Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus and CBS All Access, and might be a better value than subscribing to cable/satellite for these shows. For me, I still like the idea of a tv channel and scheduled timing of shows. For example, I'd likely tune into I Love Lucy on Decades between 9am-10, even though I have Amazon Prime and other streaming On Demand where I can watch the show without commercials anytime I want.

[tenter]

Nick at Nite unfortunately doesn't even have a streaming channel at all, they don't even have a youtube channel for Nick at Nite from the start. The website nick at nite does not even update the main page. They only have one week schedule for the update and that's it.
TVLand website seems active and has some episodes of some shows, but not nick at nite
Airing on autopilot sucks, and the social media barely sometimes have been active, but not all the time