not a bad description of how certain elements work in good times and bad. only the script changes to fit the circumstances.
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>frank scott wrote:
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>>just a brief reminder as to what really runs this show, and why chucko
>>is correct...market forces don't care what color the buyer is, or what
>>sexuality is favored, or what kind of dog or cat you love or anything
>>else, as long as you got the money to affrim the market, which is what
>>affirmative action is all about...
>>fs
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>>"Two years ago, Viacom considered and abandoned at cable channel cable
>>network aimed at gays. The company now considers that a big mistake,
>>Viacom
>>Chairman Sumner Redstone thinks it would have cost $30 million to launch
>>a
>>channel that could now be worth $1 billion. So Viacom is looking at the
>>possibility again. But it is uncertain how popular such a channel would
>>be
>>outside major cities (obviously the only place homosexuals watch TV).
>>The
>>driver, of course, is that advertisers are increasingly attracted to
>>gays
>>who spend nearly $500 billion a year. But not much is known about "gay"
>>viewing habits, Nielsen has never studied them. Some prominent gay
>>television executives and producers worry that gay viewers might resent
>>narrowly focused programming choices as attempts to pigeonhole them.
>>"The
>>gay community is extremely diverse, [and] some would even say
>>fragmented,"
>>says Kirk Iwanoski, vice president of marketing at the Sundance Channel.
>>
>>"If you're going to go out there and make the claim that you're the gay
>>network, you're going to have to cover multiple aspects of the gay
>>community."
>>
>>[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Joe Flint at joe.flint at wsj.com]
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