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** Alas, those two decades eventually came to an end. Following the end of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'', two of the network's last big hits, in 2004, NBC slipped from first to fourth as its new shows either failed to catch on or experienced {{Second Season Downfall}}s, and most of its attempts to make a {{reality TV}} hit like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' or ''AmericanIdol'' turned out to be failures. Its Thursday night comedy block was one of its few points of consistent acclaim, and even then, shows like ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ThirtyRock'' struggled in the ratings.\\
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** Alas, those two decades eventually came to an end. Following the end of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'', two of the network's last big hits, in 2004, NBC slipped from first to fourth as its new shows either failed to catch on or experienced {{Second Season Downfall}}s, and most of its attempts to make a {{reality TV}} hit like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' or ''AmericanIdol'' ''Series/AmericanIdol'' turned out to be failures. Its Thursday night comedy block was one of its few points of consistent acclaim, and even then, shows like ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ThirtyRock'' struggled in the ratings.\\
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** Alas, those two decades eventually came to an end. Following the end of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'', two of the network's last big hits, in 2004, NBC slipped from first to fourth as its new shows either failed to catch on or experienced {{Second Season Downfall}}s, and its attempts to make a {{reality TV}} hit like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' or ''AmericanIdol'' turned out to be laughingstocks. Its Thursday night comedy block was one of its few points of consistent acclaim, and even then, shows like ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ThirtyRock'' struggled in the ratings.\\
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** Alas, those two decades eventually came to an end. Following the end of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'', two of the network's last big hits, in 2004, NBC slipped from first to fourth as its new shows either failed to catch on or experienced {{Second Season Downfall}}s, and most of its attempts to make a {{reality TV}} hit like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' or ''AmericanIdol'' turned out to be laughingstocks.failures. Its Thursday night comedy block was one of its few points of consistent acclaim, and even then, shows like ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ThirtyRock'' struggled in the ratings.\\
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** And the channel seems to be in a major one again. The recent cancellation of several popular animated series while the station devotes all its energies to its low-budget comedies like ''AnnoyingOrange'' has not gone over well with fans.
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* The channel RTL once aired it´s own fictional programming like a line of Sitcoms and was the first to air many summer blockbusters. Nowadays the only true fictional programming is the blockbuster on sunday, US crime shows on tuesday and thursday and one or two self produced shows. All other shows they air are "news" programs covering what celebrities currently do, game, casting and other reality shows as well as scripted anthology shows in a documentary style chronicling what white trash families are doing.
* RTLIIs focus on children programming like anime gradually shifted over the years to reality shows and scripted soap operas in the vain of JerseyShore. The daily kid shows were booted to a timeslot on sunday morning and now even this slot is going to be cancelled and replaced with rom-com films.
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*ITV suffered a major Dork Age in the mid 2000s. After its attempt to launch a TV broadcasting service collapsed it seemed to completely loose its bottle. Once a channel known for its dramas, gameshows and current events, it slowly decayed into a channel associated with awful reality TV featuring z-list celebrities. This killed off its loyal older fans, and some disastrous attempts to capture the youth market showed it up as a poor attempt to imitate the much more successful C4. This peaked when the channel that had once rivaled the BBC was reduced to broadcasting late night phone-in game shows associated with the filler channels. After years of failing, its only just managed to turn things around. The insanely successful X-factor finally caught the younger market, and series of high quality dramas including Downton Abby drew back its older fanbase.
*The BBC was not above a Dork Age either. The late 70s to the early 80s were a tough time in Britain, and the BBC suffered too. Its reputation as a trusted news source was shaken with some blatant pandering to the current governments. Its budgets were getting tighter, with Dr Who suffering its worst production and ratings in its history. Its output was also seen as stale and safe compared to the edgier ITV. At a time when its directors were seriously concerned that any signs of over spending or not appeasing the highly conservative government might get the channel privatized, its not that surprising.
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*ITV suffered a major Dork Age in the mid 2000s. After its attempt to launch a TV broadcasting service collapsed it seemed to completely loose its bottle. Once a channel known for its dramas, gameshows and current events, it slowly decayed into a channel associated with awful reality TV featuring z-list celebrities. This killed off its loyal older fans, and some disastrous attempts to capture the youth market showed it up as a poor attempt to imitate the much more successful C4. This peaked when the channel that had once rivaled the BBC was reduced to broadcasting late night phone-in game shows associated with the filler channels. After years of failing, its only just managed to turn things around. The insanely successful X-factor finally caught the younger market, and series of high quality dramas including Downton Abby drew back its older fanbase.
*The BBC was not above a Dork Age either. The late 70s to the early 80s were a tough time in Britain, and the BBC suffered too. Its reputation as a trusted news source was shaken with some blatant pandering to the current governments. Its budgets were getting tighter, with Dr Who suffering its worst production and ratings in its history. Its output was also seen as stale and safe compared to the edgier ITV. At a time when its directors were seriously concerned that any signs of over spending or not appeasing the highly conservative government might get the channel privatized, its not that surprising.
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*** [[DefiedTrope Until recently, that is.]] The TOM 4 era did indeed happen, as evidenced by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CNClh_bMek TOM 3.5 holding a conversation with TOM 4]] and alluding to... whatever it is that they've been up to since their "break." It's presumably a matter of getting the funding to properly tell said story. At any rate, Toonami is primarily focusing on the nostalgia of the pre-TOM 4 years.
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** The first one was in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Proud as a Peacock!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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** The first one was in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken Creator/AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Proud as a Peacock!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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* Long-time fans consider Creator/{{MTV}} to be in a DorkAge since its de-emphasis on music videos in favor of reality TV.
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* Creator/{{CBC}} (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has one of these every five years or so, always as a result of network/government bigwigs trying to draw in new audiences by making it more [[WereStillRelevantDammit "relevant"]]. This naturally turns-off long term fans (who watched CBC precisely because it doesn't typically trade in LowestCommonDenominator fare), while "mainstream" audiences get their entertainment from Creator/{{CTV}} and Creator/{{Global|TelevisionNetwork}}.
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* Creator/{{CBC}} (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has one of these every five years or so, always as a result of network/government bigwigs trying to draw in new audiences by making it more [[WereStillRelevantDammit "relevant"]]. This naturally turns-off long term fans (who watched CBC precisely because it doesn't typically trade in LowestCommonDenominator fare), while "mainstream" audiences get their entertainment from Creator/{{CTV}} and Creator/{{Global|TelevisionNetwork}}.Creator/{{Global}}.
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* {{CBC}} Creator/{{CBC}} (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has one of these every five years or so, always as a result of network/government bigwigs trying to draw in new audiences by making it more [[WereStillRelevantDammit "relevant"]]. This naturally turns-off long term fans (who watched CBC precisely because it doesn't typically trade in LowestCommonDenominator fare), while "mainstream" audiences get their entertainment from {{CTV}} Creator/{{CTV}} and {{Global|TelevisionNetwork}}.Creator/{{Global|TelevisionNetwork}}.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Creator/{{Disney}}, turned down JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network ''almost'' went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being spared after the debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Creator/{{Disney}}, turned down JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network ''almost'' almost went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being spared after the debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/{{LOST}}'', ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', and ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.season.
** It has been said that ABC ''really'' needed those shows to succeed not just because of their precarious position at the time, but because, if they failed, there would have been no end to the jokes about the network being "lost" and "desperate".
** It has been said that ABC ''really'' needed those shows to succeed not just because of their precarious position at the time, but because, if they failed, there would have been no end to the jokes about the network being "lost" and "desperate".
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** The first one was in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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** The first one was in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] Proud as a Peacock!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, turned down JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network ''almost'' went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being spared after the debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, Creator/{{Disney}}, turned down JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network ''almost'' went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being spared after the debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. This was followed by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-Fort Worth]], UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas-Fort Worth but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. This was followed by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-Fort Worth]], UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}[[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas-Fort Worth but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. This was followed by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. This was followed by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-Fort Worth]], UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas Dallas-Fort Worth but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, turned down Creator/JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network ''almost'' went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being spared after the debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, turned down Creator/JerryBruckheimer's JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network ''almost'' went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being spared after the debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when it put an overfocus on ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, airing the game show ''five nights a week''. Eventually, ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' was cancelled in prime time in 2002 but moved to syndication (where it still remains to this day) with a new host. Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, turned down Creator/JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network nearly went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being saved from bankruptcy with a boost in the ratings owing to the presence of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' for the 2004-05 season.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when it put an overfocus on many new shows didn't draw much in the ratings. The beginning of this was when the network gave WolverinePublicity to ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, saturating the schedule by airing the game show in prime time as many as ''five nights a week''. Eventually, ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' was cancelled in prime time in 2002 but moved to syndication (where it still remains to this day) with a new host. In addition, Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, turned down Creator/JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network nearly ''almost'' went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being saved from bankruptcy with a boost in spared after the ratings owing to the presence debuts of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', which boosted the network's ratings for the 2004-05 season.
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* Creator/{{ABC}} went through a DorkAge of its own from 2000-2004, when it put an overfocus on ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for the 2000-01 season, airing the game show ''five nights a week''. Eventually, ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' was cancelled in prime time in 2002 but moved to syndication (where it still remains to this day) with a new host. Michael Eisner, then CEO of parent company Disney, turned down Creator/JerryBruckheimer's pitch for ''Series/{{CSI}}'', which instead became a hit for Creator/{{CBS}} (see above), and many of the new shows that debuted on ABC in that period were hardly successful in terms of ratings. The network nearly went bankrupt in this period, ultimately being saved from bankruptcy with a boost in the ratings owing to the presence of ''Series/{{LOST}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' for the 2004-05 season.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] followed by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, St. Louis, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, through a contract with New World Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, St. Louis, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities.cities[[note]]CBS was spared the UHF demotion in Dallas but still had to move up the dial to Channel 11[[/note]]. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, a number of their affiliates through a contract with New World Communications, owner of CBS affiliates in such key markets as UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, a number of their affiliates through a contract with New World Communications, owner of Communications and its merger with Argyle Television, poaching CBS affiliates in such key markets as Dallas, St. Louis, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
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* Long-time fans consider Creator/{{MTV}} to be in a DorkAge since its deemphasis on music videos in favor of reality TV.
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* Creator/{{NBC}} went through one of these in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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* Creator/{{NBC}} went has gone through one ''two'' of these in its history.
** The first one was in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
** The first one was in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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* Creator/{{NBC}} went through one of these in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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The final straw came when the US Olympic team boycotted the 1980 UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}} {{Olympic|Games}}s as a result of the SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan, resulting in an Eastern Bloc-dominated affair that few Americans were interested in watching -- very bad news for the network that had bet the farm on Olympic programming that year to turn its fortunes around. Between that and the financial troubles of NBC's corporate owners, the electronics company RCA, it was speculated that the network would be shut down or sold off in a matter of years in order to prevent RCA from going bankrupt.\\
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Fortunately for NBC, in 1981 they ousted Silverman and brought in Grant Tinker (co-founder of MTM Enterprises) as the new chairman and CEO, and put Brandon Tartikoff in charge of programming duties. Together, despite a few false starts, Tinker and Tartikoff oversaw the beginning of a golden age for NBC that would last for nearly two decades, with the network dominating the ratings and, in particular, being responsible for many of the great American {{sitcom}}s of TheEighties and TheNineties.
** Alas, those two decades eventually came to an end. Following the end of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'', two of the network's last big hits, in 2004, NBC slipped from first to fourth as its new shows either failed to catch on or experienced {{Second Season Downfall}}s, and its attempts to make a {{reality TV}} hit like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' or ''AmericanIdol'' turned out to be laughingstocks. Its Thursday night comedy block was one of its few points of consistent acclaim, and even then, shows like ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ThirtyRock'' struggled in the ratings.\\
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The low point came in the 2009-10 season, when the [[StargateCity Vancouver]] Winter Olympics proved themselves to be a $250 million money pit for the network, and the failure of ''The Jay Leno Show'' left huge holes across a third of the network's PrimeTime schedule and caused a "Late Night War" between Leno and ConanOBrien that left TV fans with a lot of ill will against NBC's executives. Time will tell if the ouster of unpopular CEO Jeff Zucker in late 2010 will see the network get turned around, though things seem to be looking up; ''Series/TheVoice'' is a smash hit, and the network edged out ABC for third place at the end of the 2011-12 season.
* CBS went through a bad decade in TheNineties. For much of TheEighties, its shows had skewed much older than its competitors ABC, NBC and (starting in 1987) Fox, meaning that, while it was pulling in huge ratings from seniors and retirees with shows like ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' and ''Series/MurderSheWrote'', it wasn't hitting the lucrative 18-49 demographic that advertisers crave. This earned it the nickname "the network of the living dead", and by the early '90s [[{{Foreshadowing}} they were relying on their weekend sports coverage to stay in the black]].\\
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, a number of their affiliates through a contract with New World Communications, owner of CBS affiliates in such key markets as UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
* That painful time when Creator/CartoonNetwork attempted to put more emphasis on [[NetworkDecay live action programming]].
** Not even Creator/{{Toonami}} is immune to the DorkAge. The TOM 4 era was hated by a lot of fans for the [[UncannyValley TOM's]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou redesign]], and for things like the Absolution and [[SpaceshipGirl SARA]] being [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome dropped without any indication of a reason]]. The general [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwing]] of multiple shows reducing the block to nothing but reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' led many to suspect ExecutiveMeddling, especially given that this happened in 2007, after the [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Mooninite]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom bomb scare]] in Boston and the resulting management shake-ups at Creator/CartoonNetwork. Of course, then the block [[ScrewedByTheNetwork got]] [[TooGoodToLast taken]] [[{{Cancellation}} off]], and [[AlasPoorScrappy people mourned its passing]], no matter what they'd thought about the {{retool}}... But when Toonami [[{{Uncancelled}} came]] [[NetworkToTheRescue back]], [[CanonDiscontinuity it was with an updated version of the previous, well-liked TOM 3, with the Absolution back in space, and with no mention of the last few years of the original run]].
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* {{CBC}} (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has one of these every five years or so, always as a result of network/government bigwigs trying to draw in new audiences by making it more [[WereStillRelevantDammit "relevant"]]. This naturally turns-off long term fans (who watched CBC precisely because it doesn't typically trade in LowestCommonDenominator fare), while "mainstream" audiences get their entertainment from {{CTV}} and {{Global|TelevisionNetwork}}.
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* Creator/{{NBC}} went through one of these in the late '70s and early '80s during Fred Silverman's tenure as president and CEO. Hot off of his success turning Creator/{{ABC}} into a titan in the early-mid '70s, NBC brought him on hoping that lightning would strike twice. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor What they got instead]] was a slew of gimmicky shows that were often canceled after only a season, with failures like ''{{Supertrain}}'' and ''Series/PinkLadyAndJeff'' being among the most notorious. The former hit ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' went through its first DorkAge during the 1980-81 season, and was nearly canceled after the [[PrecisionFStrike F-bomb]] dropped on the Charlene Tilton episode. Morale at the network crumbled with each passing year spent in a distant third behind ABC and Creator/{{CBS}}; AlFranken ran the famous "Limo for the Lame-O" sketch on ''SNL'' skewering Silverman's handling of the network (which led to Franken getting sacked and, with it, the aforementioned DorkAge the following season), while the production studio and singers responsible for NBC's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AEhc2cgCnw "We're Loud!"]] campaign song recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9wJ75DjdA a hilarious parody version]] mocking Silverman.\\
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The final straw came when the US Olympic team boycotted the 1980 UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}} {{Olympic|Games}}s as a result of the SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan, resulting in an Eastern Bloc-dominated affair that few Americans were interested in watching -- very bad news for the network that had bet the farm on Olympic programming that year to turn its fortunes around. Between that and the financial troubles of NBC's corporate owners, the electronics company RCA, it was speculated that the network would be shut down or sold off in a matter of years in order to prevent RCA from going bankrupt.\\
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Fortunately for NBC, in 1981 they ousted Silverman and brought in Grant Tinker (co-founder of MTM Enterprises) as the new chairman and CEO, and put Brandon Tartikoff in charge of programming duties. Together, despite a few false starts, Tinker and Tartikoff oversaw the beginning of a golden age for NBC that would last for nearly two decades, with the network dominating the ratings and, in particular, being responsible for many of the great American {{sitcom}}s of TheEighties and TheNineties.
** Alas, those two decades eventually came to an end. Following the end of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}'', two of the network's last big hits, in 2004, NBC slipped from first to fourth as its new shows either failed to catch on or experienced {{Second Season Downfall}}s, and its attempts to make a {{reality TV}} hit like ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' or ''AmericanIdol'' turned out to be laughingstocks. Its Thursday night comedy block was one of its few points of consistent acclaim, and even then, shows like ''Series/{{Community}}'' and ''Series/ThirtyRock'' struggled in the ratings.\\
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The low point came in the 2009-10 season, when the [[StargateCity Vancouver]] Winter Olympics proved themselves to be a $250 million money pit for the network, and the failure of ''The Jay Leno Show'' left huge holes across a third of the network's PrimeTime schedule and caused a "Late Night War" between Leno and ConanOBrien that left TV fans with a lot of ill will against NBC's executives. Time will tell if the ouster of unpopular CEO Jeff Zucker in late 2010 will see the network get turned around, though things seem to be looking up; ''Series/TheVoice'' is a smash hit, and the network edged out ABC for third place at the end of the 2011-12 season.
* CBS went through a bad decade in TheNineties. For much of TheEighties, its shows had skewed much older than its competitors ABC, NBC and (starting in 1987) Fox, meaning that, while it was pulling in huge ratings from seniors and retirees with shows like ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' and ''Series/MurderSheWrote'', it wasn't hitting the lucrative 18-49 demographic that advertisers crave. This earned it the nickname "the network of the living dead", and by the early '90s [[{{Foreshadowing}} they were relying on their weekend sports coverage to stay in the black]].\\
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You can guess how that went. In 1993, Fox signed a contract with [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball the NFL]] that gave them the exclusive rights to air NFC games, a move that firmly established Fox as America's fourth network but utterly devastated CBS. A common joke claimed that CBS stood for [[FunWithAcronyms "Can't Broadcast Sports"]]. [[ItGotWorse This was followed]] by Fox's plundering of CBS' sportscasters and, in 1994, a number of their affiliates through a contract with New World Communications, owner of CBS affiliates in such key markets as UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, {{Milwaukee}} and [[MotorCity Detroit]][[note]]NWC would be purchased outright by News Corporation, Fox's parent company, in 1997.[[/note]], forcing CBS to move to lower-tier UHF stations in those and other cities. CBS would start to recover in 2000 with the debut of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', its first mega-hits in a long while, and since then it's caught back up to Fox for the #1 spot on the Nielsen charts.
* That painful time when Creator/CartoonNetwork attempted to put more emphasis on [[NetworkDecay live action programming]].
** Not even Creator/{{Toonami}} is immune to the DorkAge. The TOM 4 era was hated by a lot of fans for the [[UncannyValley TOM's]] [[YouDontLookLikeYou redesign]], and for things like the Absolution and [[SpaceshipGirl SARA]] being [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome dropped without any indication of a reason]]. The general [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwing]] of multiple shows reducing the block to nothing but reruns and ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' led many to suspect ExecutiveMeddling, especially given that this happened in 2007, after the [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Mooninite]] [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom bomb scare]] in Boston and the resulting management shake-ups at Creator/CartoonNetwork. Of course, then the block [[ScrewedByTheNetwork got]] [[TooGoodToLast taken]] [[{{Cancellation}} off]], and [[AlasPoorScrappy people mourned its passing]], no matter what they'd thought about the {{retool}}... But when Toonami [[{{Uncancelled}} came]] [[NetworkToTheRescue back]], [[CanonDiscontinuity it was with an updated version of the previous, well-liked TOM 3, with the Absolution back in space, and with no mention of the last few years of the original run]].
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* {{CBC}} (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has one of these every five years or so, always as a result of network/government bigwigs trying to draw in new audiences by making it more [[WereStillRelevantDammit "relevant"]]. This naturally turns-off long term fans (who watched CBC precisely because it doesn't typically trade in LowestCommonDenominator fare), while "mainstream" audiences get their entertainment from {{CTV}} and {{Global|TelevisionNetwork}}.
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