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- From: jpenovic@encore.com (Jan Penovich)
- Subject: Re: obnoxious PUBLIC television
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:54:04 GMT
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- References: <1had4fINN6oj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <thom.724005974@access.digex.com> <1992Dec5.170535.20465@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Dec7.220515.3152@newstand.syr.edu> <1992Dec8.155905.28227@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <ByypyG.FHI@ns1.nodak.edu> <1g3cg3INNdbf@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1had4fINN6oj@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>,
- ar710@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William G. Martin) writes:
- >
- > In a previous article, thom@access.digex.com (The Elf-Lad) says:
- > >First, let me disclaim: I earn my living from public television.
- > >I manage the station information resources at America's Public Television
- > >Stations (APTS), the not-for-profit membership association and lobbying
- > >organization for public television.
- >
- > Aha! Sonmeone on the inside! Let me then address this question to you
- > to be discussed in this public forum:
- >
- > The whole purpose of pledge drives is to get viewers to provide money to
- > support the public TV station *because the viewers want to watch the
- > programming carried during the stations' regular schedules*. So we
- > viewers are asked to send in money to allow the stations to pay the fees
- > that let them carry This Old House, Masterpiece Theatre, Nature, etc.
-
- > [stuff about what is shown during pledge drives deleted]
- >
- > If the pledge drives were merely terms when the stations inserted pledge
- > breaks between regular programming, not only would I be more inclined to
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > contribute, but the whole process would make more sense. Please
- ^^^^^^^^^
-
-
- You sound like you normally watch PBS. But, from your above
- statement, it sounds like you don't contribute. If I'm
- mistaken, I'm sorry. If you don't contribute because
- you don't like the pledge drives, you shouldn't be taking
- advantage of their programming the rest of the year.
-
- It's because many people watch and don't contribute that
- they have to run pledge drives.
-
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