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southwestforests
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03 Dec 2009, 10:37 am

from the news: Comcast aims to reshape entertainment with NBC
Yahoo News Article

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Comcast also said it would maintain free, over-the-air TV on NBC stations — a business model that is eroding because of falling advertising revenue.


It's Not Free :!: :!: :!: :!:

Prices of what is sold by those advertisers include what is needed to get back the cost of that advertising.

Anyone who buys something from those advertisers helps pay for the advertising.

Duh.



(Use a little deductive reasoning here, sheesh. Oh, wait, the likelihood of deductive reasoning being employed by the newsmedia is . . . )


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03 Dec 2009, 10:50 am

southwestforests wrote:
from the news: Comcast aims to reshape entertainment with NBC
Yahoo News Article

Quote:
Comcast also said it would maintain free, over-the-air TV on NBC stations — a business model that is eroding because of falling advertising revenue.


It's Not Free :!: :!: :!: :!:

Prices of what is sold by those advertisers include what is needed to get back the cost of that advertising.

Anyone who buys something from those advertisers helps pay for the advertising.

Duh.



(Use a little deductive reasoning here, sheesh. Oh, wait, the likelihood of deductive reasoning being employed by the newsmedia is . . . )



Not just the news media - they're only repeating the propaganda spewed at them by the corporate suits - who actually believe that because they haven't found a way to charge viewers a subscription for watching, they are giving something away free. And they hate that.

If they had their way, they'd charge the advertisers AND the audience - same as they do in movie theaters. Which, as you say, is ultimately charging the audience double, since the advertisers get it back from them as 'overhead' anyway.

Don't we have legislators who are supposed to protect us from those kinds of (double-dipping) business practices? Oh...yeah...the money that goes to keep them looking the other way is part of the 'overhead', too... :roll:

Yaaay, capitalism, rah! rah! rah!