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Re: More commercials
said by kapil  :
You are paying for distribution...your cable company's lines, offices, repair people, call centers, bills and postage etc.
Exactly...You are not paying for the tv station, you're paying for recieving them. So you only pay the Cable company. The channels themselves have to make money somehow, which is why there are commercials.
edit: and if they had versions of it without commercials, you would be paying a lot to watch them.
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You are paying for distribution...your cable company's lines, offices, repair people, call centers, bills and postage etc. |
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What about networks like ESPN, Fox News, MTV, Spike TV, the list goes on and on...I pay for those channels, but I'm still subjected to commercials out that a$$. If they did offer versions without commercials.
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said by kapil :
You hate commercials? ...you wouldn't feel this way if you had to pay $74 for "regular" TV channels just like you pay for the premium networks.
I know we all want everything for free, but believe it or not, we are a market economy and these companies gotta make money. I for one would rather have them make that money from advertisers than off ME.
Exactly right. Is is that hard to just watch a few commercials? or would you rather pay 50 dollars more a month for your cable/dish?`I for sure rather watch the commercials...They aren't that bad for the most part.
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You hate commercials? ...you wouldn't feel this way if you had to pay $74 for "regular" TV channels just like you pay for the premium networks.
I know we all want everything for free, but believe it or not, we are a market economy and these companies gotta make money. I for one would rather have them make that money from advertisers than off ME.
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| I hate commercials, save that crap for billboards & newspapers & magazines, which I can opt not to look at or subscribe to. I'm tired of all the control that commercials have on our daily lives.
Did you know that our TV shows could have more content time if it wasn't for commercials. You thought that 32 minutes of your "hour long" show was good, Imagine if they could actually give you 45 or 55 minutes of content instead?
To HELL with commercials. I don't watch TV anymore because of that. I play videogames instead. If a videogame has a commercial at it's opening screen other than for that game or it's sequel, it's history, I don't even consider playing it anymore. If a website has one of those damn annoying ads that blocks your read 10 seconds into it, I stop using that page for good and find a new news source.
I don't have to put up with that shtick, and neither do you.
My 2 cents, is actually worth 10!
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