[net.tv] 'NBC Overnight' has lost money

notes@pur-ee.UUCP (11/18/83)

#R:cornell:-564100:isrnix:14400005:000:681
isrnix!akp    Nov 17 19:13:00 1983

I hardly wonder that there's no money in Overnight... Where would it come from?
I watched last night (as I will watch (more faithfully than usual) for the next
twelve nights) and notced that the commercials were >unanimously< PSA's
(public service announcements). There was not a SINGLE product-commercial
on WTHR (Indianapolis) from 1:30 to 2:30 AM.  Is this because the show was
cancelled? I distinctly remember seeing commercials before (notably, Don
of Don's Guns saying, "I don't want to make any money, folks... I just love
to sell guns.") and can't quite understand this: a show with no visible
means of support?
							-- allan pratt
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notes@pur-ee.UUCP (11/21/83)

#R:cornell:-564100:isrnix:14400007:000:741
isrnix!akp    Nov 20 15:57:00 1983

Boy, talk about net.snobbery!  Just because they don't have a uucp path,
you think you can't communicate with your legislators!  Remember USnail?
Last resort, I know, but worthwhile -- avalanches of mail can be very
effective -- witness Star Trek and (we hope) Overnight.  You could probably
send a letter to "<congressman's name>/U.S. Congress/Washington" and it
would get there.  For 20 cents, it's a bargain! (Do you know that many net
postings cost more than that? Especially mail, when your system will call
the next system (long-distance) as soon as it gets something bound for there.
Some of us aren't rich/ambitious enough to have WATS lines or anything..)

				-- Allan Pratt
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