. Abernethy hopes the deal with Warner Bros. will spur the rest of the industry to follow suit.
"We started with Warner Bros., which was very receptive," he says. "They understood the value because in many cases they have one of their shows running into [another] of their shows. They saw the value of eliminating that break and helping. But they also saw if we can get the entire industry [to do it], then everybody benefits. That's the idea."
As ratings for syndicated shows fall throughout the market, Abernethy says he didn't commission any research on whether having seamless flows from one show to the next helps with audience retention, but he did a "mind exercise" that convinced him that eliminating the end-of-show ad break, as well as the producers' and distributors' title slates at the end, was the way to go.
The syndication market has suffered the same ratings declines in recent years as the rest of linear TV. None of the four Warner Bros. shows averages more than 1.5 million daily viewers, although they have ticked up this fall in the key demographic of women ages 25-54. The scattering of the audience makes retention that much more important.
"When are you more likely to leave a show: in the middle or at the end?" Abernathy says. "What we're trying to do is what they do in national news, which is before you realize the show's over, I'm telling you what's coming on next."
people still watch these kinda shows? its called the internet - read up on the topic of choice and educate urself without having to hear their spin on said topic
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