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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1066223" data-attributes="member: 7261">Anyone thinking that TV was always "Free", needs to look at the entire picture, no pun intended.  Yes, in the old days, you had 3-4 channels and big rabbit ears on the top of your TV to tune them in.  But free?  Not at all.  First, you invested in that TV and Rabbit ears, as well as the power to run them.  More expensive than that, the cost of the products you bought as a result of advertising on TV.  Life Cereal, Coca-Cola, etc. weren't just throwing money away advertising on TV for you to watch, they were selling you their products, and at a higher price to pay for that advertising.Heck even PBS isn't "free".  You pay for it in your tax dollars.So yeah, Pay Per View seems to be a more direct connection to "user fees", but we have all been paying user fees to watch "Free TV".</blockquote>

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