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Re: Pledge Week

To: "Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Subject: Re: Pledge Week
From: Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:12:48 -0500
Cc: "Boston Radio" <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
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>It's pledge week on PBS so the regular programming goes out the window and
>shows not shown the other 48 weeks of the year appear.  [...]

And commercial TV networks air all sorts of specials during sweeps periods,
the months when ratings points are used to determine advertising rates.
Would that not be "bait and switch" as well?

-Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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