For network television, “things could get a lot worse before they get better. Some observers are even beginning to question whether there will ever be a turnaround, predicting that [the] business model which has sustained broadcasters for close to 60 years has begun an irreversible decline. … ‘It’s the beginning of a structural tailspin… the total collapse of the network television model,’ [author-critic-NPR co-host Bob] Garfield predicts.”