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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:id9v0i$h2a$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   > "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   > news:id8tv9$iml$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >> news:id8sof$tlt$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >> > "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.  :-(   
   >>   
   >> You either pay for your programming directly, or you pay for it   
   > indirectly.   
   >    
   >   
   > Of course you do ... or even both ways since some networks charge you a   
   > monthly fee AND plays adverts AND receive money from government taxes!   
   >   
   > Yet again it comes back to the idiotic and meaningless guesstimated number   
   > called "ratings", which are even more worthless for adverts since few   
   > people   
   > bother to watch them.   
      
   What a surprise that you snipped the part calling you out to give your   
   perfect solution.   
      
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