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Re: Open Mind How exactly does a network increase its ratings when no one can view it? |
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| Well they could start the same way a lot of new networks do: Pay per subscriber rather than bill per subscriber. Once they get market penetration, then they can start billing per subscriber. |
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| Al Jazeera English already offers carriage of their signal for free. Current TV did charge a meager sum of money for carriage but that will probably change now that Al Jazeera has purchased them.
It's quite unreasonable to expect a network to have to pay for carriage when they aren't selling anything like QVC and HSN. |
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| Why is that unreasonable? Many networks did that, the list would include SciFi, Fox News, Cartoon Network, and many others.
They can fund it with advertising, just like everybody else. |
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