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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
As long as the "Free" networks remain advertiser driven, pilot season will exist.
It's really easy to sit back and say "Netflix has a great model!" when Netflix is charging $7.99 a month for their service. They have money to spare and if House of Cards was a failure, they'd still be profitable.
Fox, CBS and NBC shell out a billion dollars a year for the NFL alone and barely break even. Those networks just can't put any old show on the air and expect to earn revenues.
Again, it's driven by advertisers, not by people willing to pay for their service.
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The NFL, to me, is their advertising budget for the year. Get people to sit through and see the commericals for their other shows.