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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: obumazombie on March 31, 2015, 08:05:55 AM
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With revenue statements and P&Ls.
But with some businesses if you have the right political/social racket going, you can survive with no means of support...
20-point and worse ratings declines combined with a 1.6 percent revenue increase would seem to make no sense. What's going on here?
Readers may suspect that advertising and media-placement firms, disproportionately populated with fever-swamp "progressives" themselves, would be to blame for compromising their clients' advertising effectiveness by keeping ad dollars at the two losers while hoping no one notices. That's apparently not the case. Those businesses are very competitive, and those who work in them, as is the case in most industries, tend to like keeping their jobs and feeding their families more than their pet political causes.
Instead, the cable and satellite companies are overpaying to carry them:
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2015/03/30/mystey-solved-why-hardly-watched-msnbc-and-cnn-still-turn-strong#sthash.dPPprYP5.dpuf
full article...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2015/03/30/mystey-solved-why-hardly-watched-msnbc-and-cnn-still-turn-strong
(http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2015/03/30/mystey-solved-why-hardly-watched-msnbc-and-cnn-still-turn-strong)
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As the recent Comcast-Fox News kerfuffle illustrates, these are multi-year contracts, not contracts-in-perpetuity. IOW, thos contracts may be saving MesSNBC's and CNN's hindquarters now, but come renewal time Comcast, Dish, Direct, et al, are going to have a long hard look at MesSNBC's and CNN's viewership numbers, and, while "balancing" Fox will be a consideration (why the lone non-liberal voice needs to be balanced, I don't get; Fox balances ABC, CBS, CNN, MesSNBC, and NBC!), those viewership numbers should lead to a large reduction in the carry fees and/or an outright dropping.
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I for one would love to see an outright dropping of their networks.
I would love to see The Rev Al back out on the street hustling again as well.
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I for one would love to see an outright dropping of their networks.
I would love to see The Rev Al back out on the street hustling again as well.
I'd rather see Sharp Al modeling orange jumpsuits at the GreyBar Hotel, but maybe that's just me, :cheersmate: .
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I for one would love to see an outright dropping of their networks.
I would love to see The Rev Al back out on the street hustling again as well.
How you gonna keep 'em down on the streetcorner, after they've seen the Oval Office?
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How you gonna keep 'em down on the streetcorner, after they've seen the Oval Office?
I hadn't thought seriously about it, but I do seem to remember Rve. Al campaigning for that office at least once.
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I hadn't thought seriously about it, but I do seem to remember Rve. Al campaigning for that office at least once.
It won't surprise me if Shifty Al runs.