Dan Grimes wrote: > My personal conclusion is that I must agree with Craig that > FOTA does not offer the programming that people want. Bert > says that nothing is stopping the FOTA stations from offering > the same content that is on cable but if that is true, why > don't they offer it FOTA? Something must be stopping them. > "Monk" did cross over. Why aren't more? Yah got me. Aren't some of those Stargate series also from a cable net? I thought they are SciFi channel shows, or am I wrong? > There is still some valuable content on FOTA and the networks, > and I do watch some of it. But it would be hard to convince > me that they can or will produce what the populous really > wants. I wouldn't expect station groups to produce anything at all. Not unless they really get ambitious. (More power to them if they can.) I would expect that station groups would buy shows that they can air, to have a steady audience every week. I just don't think you need $1M/episode actors to put on a good weekly show. And I really do not see the need for any overpriced local talent, for news or weather. If cable doesn't need this, why saddle OTA with that burden? Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.