Should NBC Adopt FOX Model?

[Guest zas1977]

Interesting, fanciful commentary about NBC eliminating 10P/9P from Primetime to accomodate local news at 10P ET/9P CT, with Leno at 10:35/9:35 and O'brien at 11:35/10:35:

 

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/07/guest_commentary_late_shift_co.php

[TexasTVNews 1377]

So Pathetic and Stupid! >

[i3tvnt 3]

Pot to kettle: "Black!"

[Gulf_Broadcasting 0]

please no kxas is horrible as is, if they're on earlier, we have to suffer early > noooooo

[WXmanTim 88]

I don't see this happening. Two of the (many) reasons Fox adopted that model in the first place was that (1) most of their (then new) affiliates ran movies in the 8/7c slot followed by news (mostly on what became the Fox Television Stations group, though a few other stations like KTVU and KSTW [maybe?] had primetime news as well) and (2) they didn't have enough programming in the beginning to fill three hours when they were still trying to fill two or three nights per week.

 

Wikipedia (take with a grain of salt) says one of the reasons was the regulatory environment when Fox began. By limiting the number of primetime hours, Fox could claim to not actually be a network, but a group of stations airing the same programming. Though honestly, this is similar to my supposition above, so I'll leave both.

 

By the time FOX went full-time in 1993, many more of their affiliates had signed on with newscasts and the existing newscasts were far to entrenched as to make a change.

[WAVY 10 Fan 233]

If they did, what would the affiliates do with the 11:00 hour? Stick reruns in that slot like FOX? Air an additional newscast (assuming NBC actually did that but wanted to keep the 11:35 slot for Leno).