Last year, I said that the writers were going to - at best - end up with a pyrrhic victory in their strike. It's starting to look a lot like the ill fated strike that finally killed Eastern Airlines now. Via SciFi wire:

As the fall TV season hits its stride, the winners and losers have emerged, and it's a bloodbath out there. Ratings in general are horrible, and the major networks are still reeling from last year's writers' strike and a splintered viewership.

The audience was already splintering - what the strike did was accelerate the downhill slope dramatically. The writers were fighting over royalties to a business model that mostly doesn't work anymore.