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  • From: David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] for the tivio addicted
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:20:50 -0400

heck. he might not even be a CEO anymore...

dave ;)

On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 09:18 PM, Gina Norman wrote:

> In an interview with [INSIDE] Magazine, Turner Broadcasting
> CEO Jamie Kellner voiced this opinion on the issue: "[T]he ad skips . . .. It's theft. 
> Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to 
> watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. 
> Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually
> stealing the programming."
>
> When prompted, Kellner did admit that "there's a certain amount of 
> tolerance for going to the bathroom."

Wowsers.  Learn some thing new every day! I had no idea that the networks folks were so... Erm... take your pick:  idealistic or deluded.  I wonder what they think about the DVRs that their distributors are renting?

-Gina




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