"Pete C." wrote:

Don't get too used to your "free" broadcast tv/radio, broadcast is dying
since they have not found a new business model that will work in this
age of competition. You can readily see the death-twitching in the flood
of scam advertising (colon cleanser scam, work from home scam, payday
loans, etc.) that broadcasters would never have accepted in the past.
Now they are desperate for ad revenue and will accept anything, which
only drives away move viewers/listeners. The consolidation of broadcast
to a few big companies cut overhead and bought them some time, but soon
even that will not help ad revenues meet operating expenses and stations
will be going dark.


Then you've never heard any of the scam medical ads on early radio?
The boarder blasters were the worst. XERF ran lots of ads for 'medical
services' that were illegal in the United States. Just bring your money
across the boarder for some quack can do worthless surgery on you in an
unsanitary environment! Other ads were for quack medical devices and
scams that would have made 'Bigmouth Billy, the dead screaming pitch man
blush.


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