Broadcasters Hit New Lows as Clock Winds Down on 2016-17 Season

The destabilization of the live TV model continues to gnaw away at the primetime broadcast ratings like a school of piranha stripping the flesh off the bones of a luckless cow. As younger viewers churn away from the tube and programming options proliferate on alternative platforms, nightly deliveries effectively have gone from moo to goo, and all the time-shifting in the world isn't ever going to put Bessie back together again.