Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nmtvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!unm-cvax!nmtvax!robert From: robert@nmtvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: MTV Censorship Message-ID: <234@nmtvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 15:22:25 EST Article-I.D.: nmtvax.234 Posted: Wed Jan 16 15:22:25 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:17:12 EST References: <2639@dartvax.UUCP> <> Reply-To: robert@nmtvax.UUCP (Robert D. Kenyon) Distribution: net Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro Lines: 40 You have to remember one thing about MTV, it is a BUSINESS. Businesses must make money to survive. Entertainment services (such as MTV, ABC, CBS, NBC and any other rinky-dink station you can think of) make money by selling advertising time to other businesses. If a lot of people watch a station and it reaches some people that would not be reached otherwise, the owner can charge more for that time. If a station alienates its viewers /listeners by playing/showing things that upsets or displeases them, that station looses part of its current viewer base and consequently, part of its money and sellabilty. Public television is capable of putting on the most bizzare (and I might add, best) stuff because its viewers are paying for it, not the advertisers. If you pay for it, you control it (Or at least should...). Blame the advertisers for the crap that is on television or radio today. Let them know that you are not watching the garbage that they get put on TV and radio with their money and refuse to patronize them. There are plenty of people that are willing to give you what you want. You just have to pay for it. I hope that radio stations will consider the consequences of program changes very carefully. Since when does an area need three top 40 stations in the same area (One can be found in the Modesto/ Stockton area of California...)? Whatever happened to a good old ROCK (Boy George is not what I consider ROCK!) stations like WKRP? I just wish that the services would look not only to profits (though they are important), but to the type of viewer/listener that they currently have. I'm probably going to catch heck for this, but what the heck... Robert Kenyon ...lanl!nmtvax!robert Are you listening HOT (Ha Ha) ROCK (Ha Ha Ha...) 102??????