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[MoHasanie]

Untamoi said:

MoHasanie said:

I didn't mean it in a bad way. People that DVR shows aren't stealing anything, but its better for the networks and the future of your favourite shows if you watch your shows live. Well actually it doesn't matter what you or I do, because unless you are a Nielsen family, what you do doesn't affect anything. 

Yes, the TV networks have to adapt now but still they haven't. 

It may be better for TV networks that people watch shows live but is that they still don't understand technology. People are still prepared to pay for content and are paying just to get rid of ads even if content itself wouldn't change. That is why people pay for Netflix and other streaming services which have no ads.

Heck, people have a long time paid extra money for cable channels which don't have ads. I'm not from USA but I think for example HBO doesn't have normal ads at all and they still can afford to make expensive quality TV shows. If you can make big-budget TV shows without any ads, it just shows that something is wrong with traditional TV network thinking...

That is true. The 4 main broadcast networks in the US are CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox. Both Fox and CBS have said that they would prefer to operate as a subscription based tv channel but they can't just become one so easily. 

The production and licensing costs of TV shows for the main networks are considerably higher than for a cable channel or anyone else to make and air shows. A show which can cost $1 million per episode for a network like HBO to make would cost $3-4 million for the main broadcast netoworks to produce. Its very strange but this is the system currently in place. I remember in 90's, the most expensive show ever to produce was ER. The show was in its 6th season, and NBC was paying Warner Bros. $10 million per episode to air the show. Before the new deal was negotiated, there was talk that the show could even move to another channel. But NBC wasn't willing to lose TV's No.1 show, so they decided to pay that much to continue airing the show.