roth@ut-sally.UUCP (Mark Roth) (07/22/85)
The "real" winner in NBC's DH poll was the phone company with over $100,000 in revenue, almost all profit. These 900 number phone ins are the greatest thing to hit phone company's pockets since long distance.
tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) (07/25/85)
WRONG! The proceeds of both the DH poll and the Bob Eucker poll were donated to a charity by both the phone company and the pollers. You see, the call costs .50 cents. The phone company keeps about .15 cents and the rest goes to the pollers. You want to make money? Get a 900 number and and a tape recorder and get into the fun. The dial-a-joke line makes a pile of money every year for the owners of the 900 number. This is off the subject, however, the phone company did not make $100,000 on those polls. Right at the top of the program, they told us where the money was to go. I forget now, but it was some type of charity. Its attitudes like this that caused the breakup of the best phone system in the world. T. C. Wheeler
wlb@rruxo.UUCP (B Boutin) (07/25/85)
> The "real" winner in NBC's DH poll was the phone company with over > $100,000 in revenue, almost all profit. > These 900 number phone ins are the greatest thing to hit phone company's > pockets since long distance. Now wait a minute..... Who's the winner? AT&T ? Local Phone Companies? I would assume it would be AT&T so that money DOES NOT hit the phone company's pockets, only AT&T. -- Bill Boutin, Bell Communications Research, Inc., 444 Hoes Lane, Room 4D-336, Piscataway, NJ, 08854 201-699-4700
david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin) (07/25/85)
> The "real" winner in NBC's DH poll was the phone company with over > $100,000 in revenue, almost all profit. > > These 900 number phone ins are the greatest thing to hit phone company's > pockets since long distance. Much of the $100,000 goes to the company running the number (most 900 numbers are set up for the benefit of the company who rents the number, with the phone company making little more than it does on other business services), in this case NBC. NBC had announced that their share of the proceeds would go to charity, though I don't recall if they announced which. In this particular case, if NBC named only one receipient, X, than charity X is the biggest winner, with AT&T coming in second. David Rubin {allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david