re: #415 freetoken

I’ll point out that much of broadcast network television isn’t really controlled from Hollywood (or even made there), but from the advertising agencies in New York. Content is driven by the ability to generate ad revenue, which has always been true of “free” television (remember all the cigarette adverts from years ago?), and today ad revenue is gotten by selling to late teens and early 20 year olds. The over 45 market is too small to influence much television.

Of course there was always NYC for advertising and soap operas. Broadway as well and it remains in place. But there are no Hitchcocks, Serlings, or Roddenberries. We have to accept that fact. Television has past its prime. We used to have poets and painters on TV. That is no longer. Now it’s just the latest social trend mogul.