Re: God do I miss, TV-38! (Re: Yoo Pee Enn 38)

[Dan Billings <billingsdan@yahoo.com>]

--- Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> I honestly don't know who would stay tuned to watch
> infomercials.
> But with so many of them out there, the infomercial
> producers must
> believe (rightly or wrongly) that it's worth their
> money to air
> the things.  Maybe eventually, they'll realize that
> nobody pays
> attention to them; if so, they'll go away of their
> own accord.

The infomercial producers are very sophisticated about
tracking the sales that result from the programs they
pay to air.  If they did not make money from the
programs, they would not be paying to air them.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine

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