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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Shares Of AMC Networks Plunge 35%
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:26:25 -0400
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On 6/18/2024 4:14 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> super70s  <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-06-18 16:25:20 +0000, moviePig said:
>>
>>> On 6/18/2024 11:41 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-06-18 08:12:51 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
>>>>
>>>>>> I think we can trace this directly to the announcement they will be airing
>>>>>> NAUTILUS
>>>>
>>>>>> Shares Of AMC Networks Plunge 35% As Company Plans Debt Sale To Raise Cash
>>>>
>>>>>>
>> https://deadline.com/2024/06/amc-networks-stock-price-plunges-bond-offering-1235976225/
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Ha! I think you can trace it back a few decades ago when they started
>>>>> introducing commercials. First it was one commercial in the middle of a
>>>>> movie, then they went full tilt with commercials every 10 minutes.
>>>>
>>>>> If TCM could survive 30 years without commercials there's no reason AMC
>>>>> couldn't have done the same thing, but they went for the easy money I
>>>>> guess.
>>>>
>>>> Every time you post your opinion, it utterly ignores reality. TCM was an
>>>> imitation of AMC, even hiring away Robert Osborne. Shortly thereafter,
>>>> Ted Turner stopped licensing any movie he had control of to AMC that he
>>>> wanted instead to show on TCM. That forced AMC to completely change its
>>>> model. Also, the issue of whether a satellite channel has commercials
>>>> has to do with compensation from cable, whether it appears on a lower
>>>> tier or a higher tier. Comcast moved TCM into a higher tier long ago
>>>> when they demanded higher compensation and I'm sure other distributors
>>>> did as well.
>>>>
>>>>> Only a few big hits like The Sopranos and Mad Men probably kept their
>>>>> heads above water this long. Now others with deep pockets like Amazon
>>>>> and Apple have entered the fray.
>>>>
>>>> Oh for fuck's sake. The Sopranos was on HBO. Mad Men was about men who
>>>> worked in advertising, so of all tv shows one might expect to have
>>>> commercials, that was the right series. In fact, you may recall it had
>>>> INTEGRATED commercials at times.
>>>
>>> So, 'Mad Men', being about advertising, is particularly well-suited to
>>> be broadcast with commercials?  That's a witticism, not a point...
>>
>> Gee thanks a million, now I've seen Mr. "Somebody Pissed In My
>> Cornflakes"'s post.
>>
>> But I should have said Breaking Bad or Walking Dead instead of The Sopranos.
>>
> 
> Actually you should have shut the fuck up in lieu of posting your idiocy
> about how AMC could have survived as a noncommercial satellite station
> given that you ignored that Ted Turner had taken away all their access
> to classic movies in favor of TCM.
> 
> The less STOOPID you contribute to Usenet, the better.
> 
> We are all so very impressed with your ability to kill file and ignore
> me. Of course it's a lie. Everyone on Usenet who claims to have kill
> filed me still reads everything I write, even after death.

Everything you write, even after death?  Hell, anybody'd read that...