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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Paying for TV programs, here and in UK
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 06:31:42 EST
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So Oded Feingold would rather pay a fee and not watch commercials, would he?
Now, I don't have a television, and almost never watch the stuff at all,
so correct me if I am wrong -- isn't this the way that PBS is supposed to
work? And isn't PBS chronically short of funds? I guess that means that
most people don't share his opinion. I doubt that we can pick up the
slack through the people who would prefer to pay a flat fee but can't
afford ig right now due to the increased costs of the goods they buy
due to advertising. [How large are *those* anyway? If your advertising
campaign is not paying for itself in increases in orders then it is
doing a pretty poor job -- but then when your advertising campaign is
doing a poor job one tends to get a new campaign, not scrap the whole
idea.]

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura