NBC's trajectory seems so dire that "five or ten years from now, there's a good chance we'll recognize [the network] as the Peacock in the coal mine, the first one to fall as the broadcast era came to a close — or, at least, morphed into something far different than what we've known for the past 60 years," writes Josef Adalian. This latest almost-obituary for broadcast television analyzes NBC's brief reign as number one again this fall, its current slips, and the mistakes of past and present regimes against the backdrop of a business in freefall.