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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 293198" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>From what I understand, the various crew unions had much more influence/power in New York City, and basically killed the goose that was laying the golden egg by making it too expensive to continue taping in NYC. The sets being stored off-site was only part of the problem. In some cases, the set construction crews, the set decorators, etc. had to tear down all the sets after that day's filming, then return the next morning to re-construct them, and then tear them down that night, etc. Very few "permanent sets" were allowed to remain up for any period of time. Obviously the crew members got lots of steady work if the sets had to be up and down all the time, which was why the unions negotiated this into their contracts, but it was a massive drag on the time-constrained world of soaps. The LA branches of the same unions were never able to impose the same types of rules on production companies, so LA was obviously viewed favorably by producers wanting to save money. The trade-off of course was that the network executives were usually headquartered in LA also, so there was a lot more micro-management.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That's what they thought they could do, in most cases. The last time a network cancelled a soap opera to bring in a soap replacement was when <em>Another World</em> was cancelled to make way for <em>Passions---</em>in 1999! And the highest Nielsen rating <em>Passions </em>ever earned was never higher than the lowest rating AW ever earned. In other words, the replacement was less successful than what they replaced. Some shows like <em>The Talk</em> (which replaced <em>As The World Turns)</em> became a ratings success over time, though it was nothing more than a rip-off of <em>The View.</em> NBC just gave the time back to the affiliates to let them air whatever they wanted rather than try to compete.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 293198, member: 27"] From what I understand, the various crew unions had much more influence/power in New York City, and basically killed the goose that was laying the golden egg by making it too expensive to continue taping in NYC. The sets being stored off-site was only part of the problem. In some cases, the set construction crews, the set decorators, etc. had to tear down all the sets after that day's filming, then return the next morning to re-construct them, and then tear them down that night, etc. Very few "permanent sets" were allowed to remain up for any period of time. Obviously the crew members got lots of steady work if the sets had to be up and down all the time, which was why the unions negotiated this into their contracts, but it was a massive drag on the time-constrained world of soaps. The LA branches of the same unions were never able to impose the same types of rules on production companies, so LA was obviously viewed favorably by producers wanting to save money. The trade-off of course was that the network executives were usually headquartered in LA also, so there was a lot more micro-management. That's what they thought they could do, in most cases. The last time a network cancelled a soap opera to bring in a soap replacement was when [I]Another World[/I] was cancelled to make way for [I]Passions---[/I]in 1999! And the highest Nielsen rating [I]Passions [/I]ever earned was never higher than the lowest rating AW ever earned. In other words, the replacement was less successful than what they replaced. Some shows like [I]The Talk[/I] (which replaced [I]As The World Turns)[/I] became a ratings success over time, though it was nothing more than a rip-off of [I]The View.[/I] NBC just gave the time back to the affiliates to let them air whatever they wanted rather than try to compete. [/QUOTE]
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