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- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Path: sparky!uunet!looking!brad
- From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
- Subject: Re: Film/video room
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 02:12:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.021241.12466@clarinet.com>
- References: <zardoz.04x7@sycom.mi.org> <1992Dec31.200527.15037@clarinet.com> <1i53j0INN33g@werple.apana.org.au>
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- In article <1i53j0INN33g@werple.apana.org.au> kat@werple.apana.org.au (Kathryn Andersen) writes:
- >For example, Australia is about 3 years behind in the showing of Star Trek
- >the Next Generation - so the latest episodes of the series are a good
- >thing for a video room over here
-
- And almost certainly ilicit showings, since they take away from the
- audience for the legit showings with Australian advertisers. It's nice
- to get it earlier, but you have to realize that for these popular items,
- selling advertising, or getting people together in a room and doing a
- screening is how the producers make their money. If you show Star Trek
- or other stuff you're doing something that legit people have to pay a
- good sum of money to do, even if the video room were free to all comers.
-
- Leave video rooms for the non-mainstream stuff that the producers are
- glad to get exposed.
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- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
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