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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources
In-Reply-To: <19980504004154.04264@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 4, 98 00:41:54 am"
To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund)
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 15:55:56 -0700 (PDT)
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	[lets move this to chat]

Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> Let me rephrase this for TV:
> 
> If you're a producer of TV-sets, including an option to automatically
> remove all advertising so that all programs run continously[1] would
> be unwise, as it would be bad for the health of the medium.  As a
> consumer, skipping on a case-by-case basis is (of course) OK.

	its excellent for the health of the medium.
	in the USA its called public television.
	due to advertizing and the sensitivities of corporations,
	american TV has degenerated into a handful of programs:
	sitcoms, soap operas (including LA Law, Dallas, All My Children),
	sports, news, Oprah-style material and very little else.

	retch..

	this is why Fred Friendly, former CBS executive, left commercial
	TV and went to PBS....he wanted to do journalism again.

	to make matter worse, the quantity of commericals constantly
	increase....
	
> Besides, the payment system for TV is different from the one for
> web-sites.  Websites are paid per display of an advert (ie, per
> viewer) - TV channels are paid bulk or per slot they display the ad in
> (which reach an unknown number of viewers).

	ratings provide the seller/buyer with an approximation or
	the number of viewers....super bowl ads are more expensive
	that those shown during the Erol Flynn version of Captain
	Blood (old hollywood pirate film from the '50s(?)).

> 
> Eivind.
> 
> [1] Yes, this is impossible for TV, but it is just what ijb does for
>     web-sites.
> 


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