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Which makes perfect sense, if you think it through. General product ads run a lot of places, inlcuding broadcast, and have to conform to the FCC rules about relative volume level. It's not worth making a separate version that shouts, and - just perhaps - the manufacturers are more sensitive to complaints about this stupid gambit than the channel operators.
It was one of those stupid marketing tricks that became universal until sufficient complaints made the FCC step in. Of course, the broadcasters got around it by including short bursts of VERY LOUD AUDIO in the content, since the ad content was pegged to a complex "average" of the level of the program. There was a short time when it was positively absurd, with shows like "Murder, She Wrote" squeezing in a loud succession of gunshots just so they could keep ad audio level higher.
Right I know about the FCC complaints but when you think about it their ads for their own shows run everywhere too. You'd think they wouldnt remix those just for their streaming service.
Right I know about the FCC complaints but when you think about it their ads for their own shows run everywhere too. You'd think they wouldnt remix those just for their streaming service.
My point, which I failed to nail down, is that they have more control over their own promos - and still believe this One Secret Trick You Won't Believe works. Most conglomerates long ago learned otherwise (and are using truly secret tricks we won't grasp until they're obsolete).
The $6 million dollar man
The Bionic Woman
Knight Rider
Xena
plus many others! played with occasional commercials, but who cares..I was so stoked to see Steve Austen and Jaime Sommers fighting Sasquatch in the California mountains, Seeing Kitt vs Karr, and watching Xena save the world..
go check it out!
Where are you seeing this stuff? I must be missing something because I'm only finding Friday Night Lights, House, Saved by the Bell, and Heroes.
Its odd the selectiion of shows they include..Xena was never an NBC show, neither was Bionic Woman. I think that ran on CBS during its original run. Not that I am complaining..I am just finishing season 1
Its odd the selectiion of shows they include..Xena was never an NBC show, neither was Bionic Woman. I think that ran on CBS during its original run. Not that I am complaining..I am just finishing season 1
It's the result of media conglomeration, especially if you're talking about shows 20-40 years old. For instance, the new widescreen cut of MASH runs with a Fox attribution, and the Fox channels didn't even exist in 1983. Most shows belong to the studios that produced them, with certain rights locked up by the network that bought and showed them, and those rights revert eventually. So NBC probably bought or acquired a couple of production companies and all their assets.
It does mean a lot of short-run shows get locked up in the vaults, too valuable to just release and not worth any reasonable licensing fees. A little less so these days as streaming's voracious maw needs feeding.
It's the result of media conglomeration, especially if you're talking about shows 20-40 years old. For instance, the new widescreen cut of MASH runs with a Fox attribution, and the Fox channels didn't even exist in 1983. Most shows belong to the studios that produced them, with certain rights locked up by the network that bought and showed them, and those rights revert eventually. So NBC probably bought or acquired a couple of production companies and all their assets.
It does mean a lot of short-run shows get locked up in the vaults, too valuable to just release and not worth any reasonable licensing fees. A little less so these days as streaming's voracious maw needs feeding.
Tell me about it--I want my "Momma's family"! and "Adam 12"
Its odd the selectiion of shows they include..Xena was never an NBC show, neither was Bionic Woman. I think that ran on CBS during its original run. Not that I am complaining..I am just finishing season 1
"Bionic Woman" was an NBC show. Season 1 and 2 were on ABC. They cancelled it and NBC picked it up for season 3. This is why Steve Austin wasnt seen on the show after season 2. ABC wouldnt allow it but allowed Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman) and Martin E Brooks (Rudy Wells) which is why they appear.
Interestingly it was the first time an actor starred in two shows on different networks at the same time
"Xena" was produced by Universal Television later NBC Universal so while it didnt air on NBC they own it
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