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  • I'm having a hard time coming up with an alternate business model, beyond product placement, or scrolling ads continuously at the bottom of shows. None of that seems too appealing to me.
    • My wife recorded an Alanis Mmoorriisseettee special on a new women's channel, Oxygen, a few weeks ago. They have a black band along the bottom of the screen, similarly to how TNN does it (the channel that has ST:TNG on 12 times a day). TNN usually just has the name of the show and network, and maybe an "ad" for an upcoming show, in the band. But Oxygen has advertisements for other products along the bottom. Constant ads. Sucky. They didn't look too bad -- nothing like the 1986 World Cup Budweiser ads

      • Re:Business model (Score:2)

        by ziggy (25) on 2002.05.04 17:13 (#8001) Journal
        The constant [ad] crawl will probably be the wave of the future. I can't wait for the day when a significant number of viewers are watching broadcast/cable TV on their computers (through a bt48 card or somesuch), and then "discover" they can place an overlapping window on top of the crawl to hide the ads. Or the day after, when the TV execs start campaigning that using overlapping windows is tantamount to theft.

        Sadly, I'm only half joking here.

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