But in this decade, they broadcasted 24 hours a day. Is it because are there no informercials in the 80s?
2006-06-13 07:51:05 · 4 answers · asked by Malcolm uses Xbox 360 Avatar 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Sort of . No body wanted to advertise that late at night and the networks that were the local stations sponsor, stopped sending programming.
In the 80's the net was just getting its little web spread slowly over a small portion of the home pc users. The companies had not really seen and gotten the potential of the internetworking of acompany being a great tool and only used the net for communications over distance.
the phone companies were not fighting to get your long distance and no cell phones were as great to use as they are today only 20 years later.
People did not stay up as late or sleep as late as they do now. So there was really not too many people who sat up past 11:00p.m..
and they just had no audience and hence no advertising dollars coming in. They lost money if they sent out programming at that time of night and so they just shut it all down and I got to tell you it was a thing that was not a bad thing.
2006-06-13 07:59:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They ran out of things to show for the day. They didn't have all this crap like infomercials and Jerry Springer-like talk shows.
2006-06-13 15:03:01 · answer #2 · answered by Courtney O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is too much stereotyping in the twentieth century to go back to the eighties.
2006-06-13 14:56:01 · answer #3 · answered by preciousb123 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who really knows
2006-06-13 14:54:16 · answer #4 · answered by tardis1977 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋