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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:id8sof$tlt$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
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   > "RT"  wrote in message   
   > news:4CF7CDAC.A4059D71@hotmail.com...   
   >> Michael Flynn wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > On 14/11/2010 16:58, The Coca Cola Kid wrote:   
   >> > >   
   >> > > Also, is that 800,000 range not the raw overnight ratings, not taking   
   >> > > into account DVR, web and time shift viewings?   
   >> >   
   >> > When it comes down to how much money can be made from a tv series it's   
   >> > the number of eyes on the live broadcast that is the most important.   
   >> > People who time shift (by whatever method) tend to skip past the   
   >> > adverts   
   >> > so the advertisers cant be charged for those viewers.   
   >>   
   >> People also get up and do other things during commercials... works out   
   >> the   
   > same.   
   >   
   > Yep, or they flick to other channels, or they read the newspaper, etc.,   
   > etc.   
   > Very very few people bother to watch the adverts. Basing scheduling   
   > decisions around advertising is and has always been moronically stupid ...   
   > but then it was thought up by idiots in management, so there's no surprise   
   > there.  :-(   
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   You either pay for your programming directly, or you pay for it indirectly.   
   You seem to have an opinion on everything, so I'm asking one more time for   
   your perfect solution, in great detail.  Since you are obviously so much   
   smarter than those idiots in management, you certainly must have your own   
   plan perfected by now.  Sell us convincingly on it for a change, show us   
   your superior solution and how it will solve everything.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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