Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Got a TV bigger than 55 inches?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 2/1/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > At our church we used to do a delay.  We'd pipe the feed to a small
> > monitor and a recorder, and manage to cut the alcohol, tobacco and 'sex
> > sells' commercials out.  The NFL should offer this option for families.
> > Remember the discussions of all the kids that expressed a variety of
> > emotions at the 'wardrobe malfunction' incident...
>
> They charge millions of dollars for a 30 second spot.  I don't think they
> want people cutting the ads out.

Certainly not *all* the ads. That is, after all, the income stream.

>  If they offer different ads depending on
> what you want to see, then they would have two sets of advertisers paying
> different amounts of money and they wouldn't know in advance which set of
> ads people are most likely to watch.

Pshaw. The point here is that we have a fairly well-defined
demographic that does not  care for certain ad types (e.g., Budweiser,
casinos, maybe some movies or TV shows) but would probably be okay
with (e.g.) more car/soda/computers/whatever ads. I think an
arrangement could be made to offer a more "clean" broadcast over a
satellite or cable link, possibly for a price. I don't expect the
problem with churches is that they wouldn't pay *something* to do a
broadcast they could approve of, just that right now they can't get
the broadcast they want and/or for a pricing scheme that seems
reasonable. If the NFL were really smart, they would say, "Fine; you
can charge whatever you like but we need $2 per head and we'll give
$0.25 of that to NFL charities."  I don't think this is rocket science
these days, and I'm sure the good will would be worth it.

> I think it would hurt their  business.  So I don't see it changing any time soon.

I agree that *they* think it would hurt their business, but, to be
honest, they might not know until they try to find out. Once upon a
time, when there was Monday Night baseball, my friends and I in a
choral music group would get together to have dinner, watch the game,
and (usually before) have an hour-long practice session. It was very
popular; had it come down to it, I'm sure we would have tossed in a
buck a person for a feed (if that was possible back then) because it
would have been cheaper than a bar plus we could sing whenever we
wanted.

As usual, the lack of creativity in what is essentially an
entertainment industry amazes me.

jking

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