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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!strnlght
- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: whose advertising? (was Re: Cable Bill Rip-off)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct8.182926.8819@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Oct6.165315.13389@netcom.com> <Bvq7Dx.HAz@rice.edu> <1663@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:29:26 GMT
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- jking's argument about Public TV carried by cable is flawed. Public
- TV raises money from the public via pledge week broadcasts. Since those
- broadcasts are also carried by cable, the cable viewer is in exactly
- the same position with respect to funding public TV as the over-the-air
- viewer.
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- In fact, in some areas the local cable company not only voluntarily
- contributes to the Public TV station, but provides personnel to
- help man the phones during pledge weeks. Thus the public TV stations
- are getting an extra good deal from the cable companies, and should
- such public TV stations attempt to charge, giving the cable company
- an excuse to replace them with one more home shopping channel, it
- is the public and the public TV stations which would be worse off.
- The viewership for public TV on cable is much lower than for other
- cable channels, and it is only to appease a vocal minority that many
- cable companies carry such traffic now. (I'm a member of that minority,
- so I'm not throwing stones.)
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