MOVING ON

NBC, there you go again! Moving the fine show “Hunter” opposite two other fine shows-”Murphy Brown” and “Designing Women”--on Mondays.

You may be bringing in ratings and revenue in the short run, but in the long run, you lose. And so do your viewers. The good shows kill each other off. And the bad ones move into their spots. Caught in this vicious cycle, quality programming continues to decline year after year.

We viewers are acutely aware that you must have ratings and revenue in order to exist at all. It’s just that your methods of achieving them seem shortsighted to some of us.

You give us many hours of prime-time viewing not fit for a pig. Then in a panic over high ratings on other networks, you weaken or kill off your few quality shows by scheduling them against their few quality shows. Everyone loses because we can’t watch them all.

It might be a good idea for someone to remind your CEO that yes, ratings and revenue are important but not at the expense of creating a second-rate product and angering the consumer/viewer, without whom you cannot exist.

Carol Law, Leucadia