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Multibank DRAM - I certainly did not intend to imply that this was your text.Besides the double line headers >>, I also changed the usualintroductory phrase to read that you "quoted" rather than you "wrote."Perhaps I should have stressed this even further, and I apologize toNeal and to anyone who may have been misled.Wes Leatherockwesrock@aol.comwleathus@yahoo.comIn a message dated Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:54:09 -0500, Neal McLain writes: Wes Leatherock wrote : Neal McLain quoted: There is a difference. The sports section in the newspaper is created either by the same wire services that they subscribe to or by their own reporters and doesn't cost a whole lot extra. The sports channels on cable networks are additional costs to the cable operator that they have to pass on to everyone because they have to pay for every subscriber. This indicates a complete lack of understanding of newspaper economics. The Sports Department is a dedicated organization in any newspaper of any size and probably the biggest single cost center in the news department. The sports section of a newspaper is by no means a by-product. And sports coverage doesn't come cheap. I've been there, both on a newspaper and on a wire service. I'd like to clarify something here: I did not write the "There is a difference" paragraph above; I was quoting an earlier message from another reader (Paul Robinson, TD 22:270). I realize that Wes indicated this fact in his posting by using ">>" line-headers, but I'm afraid that any reader who didn't notice those ">>" symbols might mistakenly assume that I wrote it. I used Robinson's quote in my message "A-la-carte v. Tiering (was Aftermath of DISH/Viacom)-1" to illustrate the following point: in order to recover their infrastructure costs, cable TV companies and DBS companies, like newspaper companies, need to maximize "circulation." In this context, "circulation" refers to the number of customers who pay to receive a medium (a copy of a newspaper or basic CATV/DBS television service) and who, in turn, are exposed to the advertising contained therein. Although the Arizona Republic might well favor so-called "a-la-carte" pricing for television channels provided by cable TV companies and DBS companies, I rather doubt that it would be willing to swallow its own medicine and offer its newspaper on an a-la-carte basis -- especially in light of Wes' description of the costs involved in putting together a sports section. Neal McLain nmclain@annsgarden.com
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