Expensive actors, falling advertising in 1980s spawned reality television
Dec 3rd, 2009 by Peter D. Marshall
“Television executives sometimes provide us entertainment. Occasionally they may even give us art. But the reality of what motivates them is neither of the above considerations. It is, and always shall be, profit. And that is the essence of why we are now bombarded with reality TV.
For a half century, network execs had the perfect business model to bring in the loot. In retrospect, it was a magical formula that made working for the networks almost as cool and often as lucrative as toiling in a Hollywood movie studio.”
Read this article from the Vancouver Sun.
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