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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
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 15:22:25 1985
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Reply-To: robert@nmtvax.UUCP (Robert D. Kenyon)
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     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


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