movies/tv Will co-viewing become a new trend for kids networks?

[TheMisterManGuy 344]

With Disney Channel claiming to be a Family-inclusive network, Boomerang being reformated to family viewing, and The Hub/Discovery Family continuing its co-viewing strategy. Do you think kids networks will move more towards targeting kids AND families? If it means more cartoons kids and adults can enjoy, then I'm all for it. One network that can benifit from this change is Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon currently is too focused on only pandering to kids under 10, as well as shutting off any potential periphery demographics for its shows. A co-viewing strategy can at least give them a few decent shows on the network.

[GuillermoGage 246]

so... is the phrase "co-viewing" a mainstream buzzword being used in the television industry?

 

Well, I wouldn't know. I hardly ever sit down and watch live TV with people. And not a lot of kids sit down and watch TV-Y TV-Y7,TV-G, and TV-PG shows on le basic cable teevee with mom and dad or older siblings. People just tend to do separate stuff separately. It was that way even when I was a little kid.

 

Well, the only shows I would watch with my mother and family members were... The Simpsons, American Idol, sports, maybe.... House M.D.

 

I have this nagging suspicion that elementary school age kids have no interest in the types of lifestyle programs that document nature or people with interesting jobs, or frantic, amusing game shows. The type of stuff that Discovery Family Channel has on in the afternoon and evening.

 

They are probably just in their rooms playing Candy Crush on tablets, and generally lacking the same skill at challenging Nintendo games that I had when I was a few years younger than they are now.

 

If they are watching basic cable TV, it is probably Sam & Cat or Regular Show.

 

I wonder if I am generalizing too much. But yeah, the tradition of whole families watching the same beloved TV shows.... very few shows accomplish that nowadays, and I doubt that some basic cable channel is gonna do it.

 

But hopefully there are some parents that happen to have a cable or satellite package with Disney XD on it and are instilling a good taste in television for their kid by following Gravity Falls.