Kevin wrote: > With ratings slipping, ABC feels their best choice is to deny a point of > access to viewers. It will > not work. It cannot work. There are no examples > I can think of where cutting off access to >shows builds an audience for > those shows.
Really, Kevin? You can't think of any examples where charging for media was a successful business model? My understanding is that the lesson that (to some extent) saved the music industry from falling into even deeper financial problems was that most people were using Napster et al not because they craved free music but because they craved easy online music, and once online stores like itunes et al came around to sell people songs at 99 cents a pop, the amount of piracy plummeted. Similarly, the movie industry is doing pretty well with a model where you can pay a lot to see a movie in the theater, pay somewhat less to see a movie pay per view a little later (or in many cases at the same time or before you would see it in a theater), pay even less to get it on premium cable or Netflix or buy it on itunes, and finally get it for free on TV much later. I really have no idea what the "best" business model for network TV is these days -- I strongly suspect that the real answer is that different models would work better for different tv shows (which is essentially what happens with podcasts, where some people are happy to take a loss in order to build a brand, others charge outright, and others use the NPR voluntary payment model) but I imagine that any given tv network won't go down that road. But no matter what the "right" answer is, I just cant comprehend how you feel that what ABC is doing is either unethical or unprecedented or clinging to an old business model. - dg -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
