Raiders on Bravo!

DrJones56

DrJones56

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I was waching The Sugarland Express with Goldie Hawn when they had an ad for Raiders June 15th at 8:00 EST on Bravo! They also have Inside The Actor's Studio: Steven Spielberg, that will be a must see!!!! YEHAW!
 
Rocket Surgeon

Rocket Surgeon

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Raiders on Bravo!?!!

Maybe "Stella got her Groove Back" or "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," but Raiders?

You're all going to say: "...but Inside the Actors Studio..."

...to that I say:

Fashion Hunters

Flipping Out

Million Dollar Decorators

Most Eligible Dallas

Platinum Hit

Roccos Dinner Party

The Millionaire Matchmaker

The Rachel Zoe Project

The Real Housewives of New Jersey

The Real Housewives of New York City

9 By Design

Americas Next Top Model

Bethenny Ever After

Bethenny Getting Married

Chef Academy

Kathy Griffin My Life on the D List

Kell on Earth

Mad Fashion

Make Me A Supermodel

Miami Social

Million Dollar Listing

Project Runway

Shear Genius

Tabathas Salon Takeover

The Fashion Show Ultimate Collection

The Real Housewives of Atlanta

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

The Real Housewives of DC

The Real Housewives of Miami

The Real Housewives of Orange County

Thintervention with Jackie Warner

Tim Gunns Guide to Style
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Rocket Surgeon

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The Drifter said:
Who really cares what station airs the movie?
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When you look at it from a marketing/business standpoint, it's interesting to understand motive.

Which I don't understand in this case.

Though the station was sold to NBC around the same time...
 
Rocket Surgeon

Rocket Surgeon

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The Drifter said:
Me either. But, maybe a few bored housewives seen it, and became fans?
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That's just it Driftwood...

Comercials are bought and sold to certain demographics. You selling hunky Harrison to the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy set?

I just don't see this on down at the salon...Oprah, sure. Raiders?
 
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Attila the Professor

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Rocket Surgeon said:
That's just if Driftwood...

Comercials are bought and sold to certain demographics. You selling hunky Harrison to the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy set?

I just don't see this on down at the salon...Oprah, sure. Raiders?
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Bravo was a bit different years ago, not as reality-heavy. They used to show The West Wing all the time. Obviously, that's the NBC-connection, but it wasn't a network with a brand identity at that point. They showed some movies, just like everyone else.
 
The Drifter

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Rocket Surgeon said:
That's just if Driftwood...

Comercials are bought and sold to certain demographics. You selling hunky Harrison to the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy set?

I just don't see this on down at the salon...Oprah, sure. Raiders?
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It is hard to understand. But, after spending a little over three years here at The Raven, I have seen Indy fans from all walks of life, and differing tastes and demographics. So, what's the harm showing Raiders to the housewives and soccor-moms? My own mother is a 62 year-old homemaker and she loves the Indy films.....and, she also loved Oprah!
 
Rocket Surgeon

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The Drifter said:
It is hard to understand. But, after spending a little over three years here at The Raven, I have seen Indy fans from all walks of life, and differing tastes and demographics. So, what's the harm showing Raiders to the housewives and soccor-moms? My own mother is a 62 year-old homemaker and she loves the Indy films.....and, she also loved Oprah!
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I don't think theres harm, but at first glance it seems financially misguided...

It went through growing pains to be sure:
Cablevision launched Bravo as a premium channel available two days a week and sharing channel space with the softcore porn channel Escapade
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Wiki continues:

In 1981, Bravo had 48,000 subscribers in the U.S.; four years later there were around 350,000.[5] A 1985 profile of Bravo in The New York Times observed that most programming consisted of international, classic, and independent film. On Bravo, celebrities such as E. G. Marshall and Roberta Peters provided opening and closing commentary to the films.[5] Performing arts on Bravo included the show Jazz Counterpoint.[5] During the mid-1980s, Bravo converted from a premium channel to a basic cable channel.[6] By the mid-1990s, Bravo began adding sponsorships as PBS did and included commercial breaks by 1998.[4] Bravo signed an underwriting deal with Texaco in 1992 and within a month broadcast the first Texaco Showcase production, a stage adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.[7]

In the Encyclopedia of Television, Megan Mullen perceived certain Bravo programs as "considered too risky or eclectic for mainstream channels". Those programs were Karaoke and Cold Lazarus, the final serials by British playwright Dennis Potter shown by Bravo in June 1997, and Michael Moore's documentary series The Awful Truth from 1999.[7]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer owned a 20% stake in the channel from 1999 to 2001. NBC bought the network in 2002 for $1.25B; it had owned a stake in it and its siblings for several years up to that point
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The Drifter

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I just took a gander at Bravo and the Real Housewives of New York was on. It really is a far departure from Raiders. They did air it at primetime, but all I see for the eight o'clock scedual is Flipping Out; whatever that is.
 
RaiderMitch

RaiderMitch

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Gee... Pat.. since 1989 I have been a Marketing Manager, then Director of Marketing at a 2.6 Billion dollar company in the 1990s, VP of Marketing and now own and operate my own Marketing agency it still doesn't give me the divine wisdom to understand the programming at Bravo...

It's like The Drifter said as long as they put it on... one can argue why does AMC show zombie TV shows? It's a mixed bag nowadays trying to get people to actually watch TV on a regular basis. Maybe they tried it out to see if anyone would tune in... if it turned up as Lifetime movie maybe it would seem an odd choice..
 
Rocket Surgeon

Rocket Surgeon

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I was hoping you'd put your hat on Mitch.

Your mention of Lifetime strikes me as exactly the same incongruity of Bravo!

But I think Attila probably hit the nail on the head already...after a bit of looking it may have been simply a way to garner some attention during a change in direction, programming wise.

Why does AMC produce Zombie shows? I'd say for the same reason they became a commercial station, a change in direction.

Remember when AMC didn't run commercials during films? A lot like HDNet.
 
michael

michael

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Bravo has always played decent movies, as far as I can remember.

They used to play Apocalypse Now a lot.

They also have my favorite reality show of all time, Top Chef.

Is Bravo HD yet???
 
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