Subj : Re: Old Geek Thoughts...
To   : TALIADON
From : McDoob
Date : Tue Jan 04 2022 16:49:09

 TA> Back in the day, channels that employed advertising were essentially
 TA> free; independent TV stations did not receive a stipend from the licence
 TA> payer. These days, people pay massive subscriptions in order to watch
 TA> 10x the ads we had 40 years ago.
 TA> 
 TA> It seems big media really can have their cake and eat it in the 21st
 TA> century.
 TA> 
 TA> Blows my mind.
 TA> 

Um...I don't know where you grew up, but where I lived, there were only two
free TV channels: CBC (national) and local. If you wanted to watch any
more than that, you had to pay a pretty massive subscription...just to watch
a bunch more ad-filled channels...

It's nothing new. Just the same story in a different book.

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
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