[gurps] Treaty on Public Utilities and life support devices

[Evyn MacDude]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:11, Travis Watkins <terwin3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as not making a profit, might I point out how many radio
> stations there are, but how few of them are non-profit or listener
> supported?


Generally there is at least one NPR/public radio station in most markets. To
reverse the question how many stations in the same market have different
owners?

How many stations do you have on TV and how many of them are PBS?
> How much time do most people spend watching PBS as opposed to
> CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox/CNN/HBO?
>
> If you remove the opportunity to make a decent profit, you remove the
> incentive to get into that market, thus reducing the number of choices
> available and that in turn reduces the need to compete.
>

Well, you are forgetting the BBC.



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Evyn