The biggest problem is they borrowed the NBC Olympic telecast idea--sports fans will watch anyway how can we get everyone else? So instead of narrowcasting, albeit to a huge segment, they wanted to be a destination for everyone. So you get gossip shows, movies, countdown lists meant to snare channel surfers, and the fake argument shows that took sports reporters (which died when the reporters decided to just regurgitate their columns/radio pieces) and dumbed it down.