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The Death of Television Draws Ever Nearer
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This is all good timing, of course, since commercials just won't be the same anymore without Billy Mays.
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And I'll pay for cable, as I like TV. But I'm not so worried about missing something on TV that I need to record it.
I'm not that crazy.
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It isn't TV in general that is "in trouble" - it's the networks. Cable's business model is pay-for-service; networks' model is free-if-you-watch-the-ads.
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I say more power to them! All the content we "digest" as entertainment programming is not free or even cheap to produce.
TV networks are businesses, not public service organizations.
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I agree.
Just like every single character on the show '24' uses a Sprint phone.
It's a little jarring and blatant at first, but nobody has in-depth conversations about their cell-phone service during the show. The plot still revolves around ridiculous set-ups and terrorism. It doesn't bother me. I chuckle at it the same way I would chuckle at a terribly produced local advertisement for a second-rate car dealership.
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Pretty much every highschool football scoreboard I've ever seen has a Coke logo somewhere next to it. If someone has made the decision they like Pepsi better, seeing the Coke logo is not going to sway them. Same with product placement. Unless the item is just unbelievably cool and everyone must have it, no one will give a shit. And let me tell you, there is nothing unbelievably cool about a Subway sandwich :p
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It was Cisco Systems! I wrote extensive recaps of the show for TVGasm.com, and each product-placement is burned in my mind.
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