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Do you really believe 'the most perverted junk possible' would draw an audience that is attractive to sponsors? They want stable people with jobs, money and families to spend their money on. You are under-estimating the audience (as hard as that may be to do).

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Do you really believe 'the most perverted junk possible' would draw an audience that is attractive to sponsors?

It would draw a segment of an audience, and with deregulation, such fare would be interspersed with the more "decent" shows whose viewers sponsors try to attract. This contamination would turn off the more normal crowd from TV altogether.