Comments on: Lifetime & VH-1 Network Identifications 1984-85

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a quote in “Fight Club” that is something like “We are a generation of men raised by women.” Maybe that is some of it? I know in my house growing up (three sisters and a mom), we watched a lot of Lifetime. The guy in those TV movies usually doesn’t do too well in the end… dead or in jail.

By: Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Actually Floyd, I’ve got to disagree. 1) Women are 50% of the population: 150,000,000 million people. 2) The most popular cable network averages a rating that totals 1,000,000 people. 3) Lifetime was the number 1 prime time network for a few years with their women strategy.

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

When Lifetime took on the tag line “television for women”, they really shot themselves in the foot, in my opinion. Talk about alienating half your audience! “Hey Steve, what channel were you watching last night?” “Lifetime.” “Lifetime! That’s television for women! HAHAHAHAHHA”… and then Steve never watches Lifetime again.

By: Alex D.

Alex D. — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It’s amazing how Lifetime used to be for talk radio like shows, and now it’s for women. Anyhoo, my mom didn’t know it was for women. Huh.
And I’ll never understand the purpose of VH-1, but at least know I know it’s history. (via Wikipedia)