{"id":32373,"date":"2006-02-06T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/02\/06\/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when-your-channel-loses-to-dead-air\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T10:00:12","slug":"you-know-youre-in-trouble-when-your-channel-loses-to-dead-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060206-12\/?p=32373","title":{"rendered":"You know you're in trouble when your channel loses to dead air"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Australian Channel Seven aired a blank screen for 41 minutes<\/a> [indirect report<\/a>], you’d think its competition would pick up some viewers. But it didn’t. <\/p>\n

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But the glitch did not result in a ratings boost for public broadcaster SBS, with figures showing viewers preferred Seven’s blank screen. <\/p>\n

To Seven’s astonishment more than 900,000 viewers stayed tuned to the network after screens went blank 38 minutes into the nail-biting episode. “Around a million Australians hung in there for us and we thank them for their commitment,” Seven Sydney spokesman Simon Francis said last night. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(The Chaser<\/a>, Australia’s response to The Onion<\/a>, chimes in with their own coverage<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Australian Channel Seven aired a blank screen for 41 minutes [indirect report], you’d think its competition would pick up some viewers. But it didn’t. But the glitch did not result in a ratings boost for public broadcaster SBS, with figures showing viewers preferred Seven’s blank screen. To Seven’s astonishment more than 900,000 viewers stayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-32373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

When Australian Channel Seven aired a blank screen for 41 minutes [indirect report], you’d think its competition would pick up some viewers. But it didn’t. But the glitch did not result in a ratings boost for public broadcaster SBS, with figures showing viewers preferred Seven’s blank screen. To Seven’s astonishment more than 900,000 viewers stayed […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}