We let our DirectTV service go. We got tired of paying for JUNK we never watch. It seems like EVERYBODY pays for the junk as well as the good programming. I'm not talking about the quality programming like FOX news, A&E, CNN, Discovery, but the third and fourth tier "networks" like Fishing, Home and Garden, Jewlery, type "networks". Who pays for those? The infomercial producers pay to play, do the networks in turn pay to play on the providers like DirectTV or Comcast? If all those "networks" pay to play, and the providers like Comcast sell local advertising, why are we the viewers stuck paying fifty buck or more a month for programming we might never watch?
Are providers like Comcast charging advertisers based on actual viewers or subscribers? If they are charging based on subscribers then the advertisers are getting ripped off just as much as the viewers who may never watch the "Fishing" channel.
How does all that work and are we the viewers getting ripped off?
2007-01-28 04:27:25 · 6 answers · asked by WhatAmI? 7 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing ➔ Other - Advertising & Marketing
I know somebody has to maintain the equipment and pay the offshore CSRs, but why would any business pay to advertise on a network that hardley anybody is watching.
2007-01-28 04:28:51 · update #1
This isn't an answer to your question - I don't subscribe to anything. But I would subscribe if I could hand pick a few select channels and not have to bother with crap laden majority of junk!
2007-01-28 10:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Alice Chaos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a set formula for charging customers.
It is: P=R x 3, where P is the price and R equals a rip off.
Books are a cheaper and healthier form of entertainment.
2007-01-28 04:38:50 · answer #2 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They charge according to how much they know people will pay.
They don't care if it's fair, they want all the money they can get.
Just like the gas companies, if the public will pay, raise the price to the highest level, and then if sales start to drop, then they will lower the price a little.
Thats why I like Dish Network, you get some lower price packages if you don't want to pay the higher price.
2007-01-28 04:32:14 · answer #3 · answered by You may be right 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The companies do vary in their pricing strategies. However most will firstly determine their total cost (Fixed cost+variable cost) and that will be the basis of their price.
Then, (presuming the firm is profit maximising) it will operate a "cost-plus" pricing plan. Which means they will add a percentage mark-up on top of the price they require to stay afloat.
2007-01-28 06:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
set the two equations equivalent to a minimum of one yet another comcast setting up + month-to-month fee (# of months) = att setting up + month-to-month fee one hundred forty + 15m = 70 + 25m sparkling up for m (months)...subtract 15m from the two factors one hundred forty = 70 + 10m, subtract 70 from the two factors 70 = 10m, divide the two factors by utilising 10 7 = m 7 months
2016-11-01 12:26:07 · answer #5 · answered by wolter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They make it up as they go
2007-01-28 04:29:42 · answer #6 · answered by Yahoo Answer Rat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋