Dan Copps wrote:
I don't understand your comment
"I mean, can you imagine the backward logic of telling people, "We don't want you to see the ads for our products. no way. We'd rather you watch commercial free programming. In fact we insist."
The network feed for satellite is not commercial free programming. You pick up a new york station and a LA station and see their local advertising, news and weather. Your local network is trying to protect the local advertisers that you could not see if you were watching through a satellite. Also, in the case of my local ABC, they think they should also protect other ABC affiliates. They say, when I am traveling, I should be forced to watch the local affiliate that is in the town that I am visiting and their local advertisers.
Exactly my point. My comment, that you didn't understand, is that the Networks are telling us and by doing so are speaking for their advertisers. By denying us network reception they are also keeping us from seeing the advertisments which are the only reason Network TV exsists anyway.
And the loss of local adverting idenity is more Network hogwash because the majority of primetime advertising is done by national advertisers. We get ads all the time for products we don't have in our area. That doesn't seem to bother anybody. That's what the fast forward on the VCR is for anyway.