Don't watch those roids tv shows!!! here's why!

[taste-icles]

Ok, here it is. You have cable or a tivo, and everything you watch a show, the raw data is uploaded to a media metrics kind of analysis service if you know it or not.

Remember when the most watched clip on tv was janet's nipple slip? ever wonder how they knew that?

The shows are flagged with 'keywords' and then the keywords are tabulated and even certain items in the timeline are flagged. if 100,000 people review one specific segment of a tv show, that is important to advertisers, producers, networks, everyone.

If we all sit around watching every damned ignorant show about aas, all we do is help fuel the fire. they know people are watching, not our point of view pro or con, it is simply numbers and ratings. raw data. they know that aas shows grab ratings, and the more inflamatory they make them then hopefully the wider audience. now boycotting advertisers is useless, they advertise on many shows at various times.

Now, the data is not only used by the cable provider, but sold to ad firms, networks, and producers. They see 100,000 people watched a show on hbo about baseball and aas, SO... they bring up the topic on everything from family shows about little billy taking juice on mainstream tv, to cnn, to mtv, to the after school specials, all over the board, magazines, newspapers and so on, then those 'natural alternatives' keep popping up, that cortislim/cortisol bullshit and so on.

fight the urge to watch OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPOGANDA!

how do i know this shit? well i am moving up in the world kiddies, going from working on set to producing and was shocked at what people actually watch on adult channels and ppv. fortunately what i produce involves naked girls, rabbits and that big 'house' i mentioned in another thread

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[turbogreek]

very interesting

 

[humperdink]

So tells us, what do people actually watch on adult channels and ppv?

 

[taste-icles]

So tells us, what do people actually watch on adult channels and ppv?

well, porn that isn't porn, but entertaining, like girls gone wild, totally busted, and even the playboy call-in shows, the other stuff where you actually see it happening, well, it is a bit flacid.

 

[obey]

makes you think what about the 13 million DTV subscribers? Satellites are only used for receiving info they dont send anything out so how do they track these people?

 

[taste-icles]

makes you think what about the 13 million DTV subscribers? Satellites are only used for receiving info they dont send anything out so how do they track these people?

you need a land line if you have tivo, it retrieves the programme info and tv guide style listings, it also does the authorizations for ppv purchases.

now digital cable is also two way, same idea, but rather than a wide bandwidth signal inbound and a phone line for data transfer, it all happens over a single coaxial or fibre line. it used to be where cable boxes were 'dumb' receive and decode only boxes, but to support ppv, they need to 'request' authorization.

this is called a 'phone home' idea, or 'ping'. no response from the cable company's command center means no tv.