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tdouglas22
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Ads...

Those ads are what pay for those movies and television shows... especially the television shows.
45612019 (banned)
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And that obscene $80+ fee every single subscriber pays for cable TV every month is all for nothing, right?

WiseOldBear
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TV yes---MOVIES NO!

Safemaster
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Netflix should put ads and work a deal with big wiggs.
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ads would be the end of netflix sub for me. I hate hulu for the ads, so much so that I have firefox extensions to skip them. I think ads on netflix would be a detractor, and since I already pay $10 per month, I think ads would be unnecessary for their continued success.
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That $80+ is ALSO for the cable company that pays for the channels and maintains their network. Ads are the big cash cow for television series though.
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And that obscene $80+ fee every single subscriber pays for cable TV every month is all for nothing, right?

the money from the commericals goes to the networks producing the shows. The cable companies get ZILCH of that money. Your monthly subscriptions pays so the cable company can be allows to offer you those networks. For example abut $6 of your bill goes fopr ESPN and ESPN 2 and you cable company has no chocie but to take ESPN 2 if they want to offer ESPN. Sure your cable company could refuse to pay that $6 and pass the savings on to you but then at least half their cusotmers would leave for satellite or FioS or U-verse then your cable company would probably go out of business.
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said by 88615298:

said by 45612019:

And that obscene $80+ fee every single subscriber pays for cable TV every month is all for nothing, right?

the money from the commericals goes to the networks producing the shows. The cable companies get ZILCH of that money. Your monthly subscriptions pays so the cable company can be allows to offer you those networks. For example abut $6 of your bill goes fopr ESPN and ESPN 2 and you cable company has no chocie but to take ESPN 2 if they want to offer ESPN. Sure your cable company could refuse to pay that $6 and pass the savings on to you but then at least half their cusotmers would leave for satellite or FioS or U-verse then your cable company would probably go out of business.

and due to who owns ESPN and ESPN 2, they have to be on a fairly basic package if the video provider wants to carry other channels owned by the Disney Group.
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said by Kearnstd:

said by 88615298:

said by 45612019:

And that obscene $80+ fee every single subscriber pays for cable TV every month is all for nothing, right?

the money from the commericals goes to the networks producing the shows. The cable companies get ZILCH of that money. Your monthly subscriptions pays so the cable company can be allows to offer you those networks. For example abut $6 of your bill goes fopr ESPN and ESPN 2 and you cable company has no chocie but to take ESPN 2 if they want to offer ESPN. Sure your cable company could refuse to pay that $6 and pass the savings on to you but then at least half their cusotmers would leave for satellite or FioS or U-verse then your cable company would probably go out of business.

and due to who owns ESPN and ESPN 2, they have to be on a fairly basic package if the video provider wants to carry other channels owned by the Disney Group.

Yeah and......?
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said by 88615298:

said by 45612019:

And that obscene $80+ fee every single subscriber pays for cable TV every month is all for nothing, right?

the money from the commericals goes to the networks producing the shows. The cable companies get ZILCH of that money. Your monthly subscriptions pays so the cable company can be allows to offer you those networks. For example abut $6 of your bill goes fopr ESPN and ESPN 2 and you cable company has no chocie but to take ESPN 2 if they want to offer ESPN. Sure your cable company could refuse to pay that $6 and pass the savings on to you but then at least half their cusotmers would leave for satellite or FioS or U-verse then your cable company would probably go out of business.

Cable channels are double-dipping. They get money from the cable companies for every person they have subscribed to cable TV. Then they get even more money from advertisements.

The big "free" networks like ABC, NBC and CBS that produce the most expensive shows only get money from advertising.

I think the cable channels could survive commercial free just from the money they get from people paying for cable service. The majority of them do not produce expensive content. You look at a basic cable package and it's mostly documentary and "reality" shows instead of scripted, action-packed shows.

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Much of a cable bill however is licensing expense which goes back to the networks.
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The big 'free' networks get retransmission fee's too. See LIN Media, recently in the news over a squabble w/ D*SH (Charlie) ... enough sub's complained to high hell about missing out on the NCAA Tourney among other things--they made amends and the blackout was only for a couple of days.

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Just wait until Netflix needs to renegotiate major content deals. You won't be seeing $10/mth without commercials much longer. Either the newer content will disappear, or you'll pay more...monthly sub rate and/or advertisements. Throw in some caps and metered billing from ISPs and Netflix will not be the money saver that it is now for many.

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said by 88615298:

said by 45612019:

And that obscene $80+ fee every single subscriber pays for cable TV every month is all for nothing, right?

the money from the commericals goes to the networks producing the shows. The cable companies get ZILCH of that money. Your monthly subscriptions pays so the cable company can be allows to offer you those networks. For example abut $6 of your bill goes fopr ESPN and ESPN 2 and you cable company has no chocie but to take ESPN 2 if they want to offer ESPN. Sure your cable company could refuse to pay that $6 and pass the savings on to you but then at least half their cusotmers would leave for satellite or FioS or U-verse then your cable company would probably go out of business.

Not true at all. Most cable companies insert ads and make money.