With the dog days of summer behind us, the fall season marks the start of many things...
Thanksgiving: For US Thanksgiving, 104 million hours are spent cooking 26 million turkeys with electric appliances, resulting in a $25M electricity cost nationwide.
The start of the NHL season: $460M in ad revenue was lost during the 2004 lockout and ratings for broadcasting stations were down 50%. Since the last lockout, league revenues have increased 57%, average players salaries up 69% and Gary Bettman's salary up 116%.
The fall television lineup: 19% of television series in the 2012 US Fall lineup have more than two minorities in their main cast - 50% of these series air on NBC and 36% air on ABC. 60% of the series with no minorities are on CBS.
