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To: rodguy911

“Sometimes it seems FNC forgets who gave them their start and stood with them for years.”

The one and only reason for programming of any kind, news, sports or entertainment, is to fill in the time between commercials. This goes for radio as well as TV.


232 posted on 05/13/2007 8:59:00 AM PDT by Roccus (We finally consign Marxism to the dustbin of history, and it turns out it’s a recycling bin.)
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To: Roccus
That’s true, but it also helps to have an audience that you can target.
235 posted on 05/13/2007 9:00:18 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Roccus
The one and only reason for programming of any kind, news, sports or entertainment, is to fill in the time between commercials. This goes for radio as well as TV.

100% correct.

All media companies supported by advertising are NOT in the business of making good programs and selling them.  They are in the business of  attracting viewers.  We are the product they sell, not the programs.  The programs are the bait to lure us, our eyes, so that they can sell our attention to the advertisers.

Rodguy911 is therefore correct in his assessment.  Without us they have no product to sell to the advertisers.  Therein lies our power over them.
 

328 posted on 05/13/2007 2:48:45 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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