Advertisements are a different thing because it's what pays the salaries for the radio hosts and the engineers and also pay the bills for the radio and TV stations.
It DOES NOT hurt to stream your programming on the Internet. You can include ads with it. It will make money for you just the same. If you stream your newscasts on your website with ads it will make money just as if you're doing so on your air.
What these sorry bastards (Nexstar suits) are doing here is denying underserved access to essential news and weather information by ending their live newscast streams. I don't give a flying leap what you or anyone says, IT'S DUMB, IT'S STUPID AND IT'S IDIOTIC AND I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO SCREAM AND SHOUT IT ALL THE WAY AROUND THE WORLD
And, if you don't like well, that's your problem, NOT MINE!!!!!!!
WHAT PERRY SOOK DID HERE IS DUMB, STUPID AND IDIOTIC AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO STOP ME FROM SAYING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!
And MARK MY WORDS, THIS STUPIDITY IS GOING TO BE WHAT KILLS NEXSTAR MEDIA!!!!!!
It does make it right, because it’s their call to make. And they aren’t preventing you from getting information, they’re just not PROVIDING the information through one particular method. You have many many ways to get that information from others.
Advertisements are their source of revenue. Advertisers are the customers. Advertisers are paying for access to the product: viewers. YOU.
It depends on the math. If a cable provider (one of their customers) is willing to pay more for them to not put some content on the website (which actually does cost the company money) then it could be worth it to not put that content on the website. And the revenue stream for web stuff is harder, web advertisers pay less, and demand more data, which costs you money to put together. And internet savvy people are so good at avoiding ads.
What they’re doing is math, and making decisions that best serve the company. If the network went out of business you wouldn’t get any of that information either, from any method.
I don’t care if you want to act like an impudent child throwing temper tantrums and screaming into the air. I’m simply pointing out that you’re accomplishing nothing. You’re not making Nextstar change their mind. You’re not changing the market conditions to give them a good reason to change. You’re just being a petulant child shouting at people for pointing out the reality of the business situation to you.
What Perry Sook did here was a sound business decision. And the fact that all you’ve got is shouting proves it. And spiking your blood pressure like that pretty much guarantees Nextstar media will out live you.