Television, Again and Again
I recently started watching TV again. It's amazing. I have three particular observations:
1) Cable TV actually has more advertisements than regular TV. This doesn't make any sense. What am I paying for?
2) They relentlessly show the same advertisements over and over and over, so there are 4 or 5 ads that you see almost every single commercial break all day long.
3) Comcast (my cable company) constantly advertises for itself. I guess the idea is that once they've got you as a customer, if they constantly tempt you you'll upgrade more easily. Or perhaps they just fill empty ad space with house ads.
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I suppose that cable tv has 2 financial sources: 1. customers and 2. ads (there are a few more, but in bold lines these are the most important).
If they want to have many customers they have to keep their prices low enough, so next source (ads) is the one that attracts them more. Ads need people to watch them, cable tv proves that there are many watchers, so ads are getting more expensive and they earn more money. So simple! (but very annoying, I agree.)
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I suppose that cable tv has 2 financial sources: 1. customers and 2. ads (there are a few more, but in bold lines these are the most important).
Posted by: JuliaS on November 19, 2008 4:18 AMIf they want to have many customers they have to keep their prices low enough, so next source (ads) is the one that attracts them more. Ads need people to watch them, cable tv proves that there are many watchers, so ads are getting more expensive and they earn more money. So simple! (but very annoying, I agree.)