Subject: Re: TP - Visualize Tibet - Visualize New Episodes of TP From: staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers) Date: 1991-05-28, 14:40 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <6879@male.EBay.Sun.COM> duane@thismoment.EBay.Sun.COM (Duane Day) writes: > >There probably aren't going to be 20 or 30 million people ready to get > >involved with Peaks. But there might well be 100,000 or so people who > >enjoy and admire the show enough that they'd pay, say, $10 or $12 > >apiece, via subscription, for high-quality video cassettes, each > >containing a new Twin Peaks episode, sent to their home 15 to 20 times a > >year. Add to that the inevitable 50,000 or so video stores who'd buy > >at least one copy per episode to rent out, and you've immediately raised > >the $1,500,000 each episode supposedly costs. Instant break-even, and > >then profit comes in from sales of broadcast rights in Europe and > >elsewhere - countries in which sufficient numbers *do* watch the show > >to satisfy advertisers and network execs. Very interesting idea. But Pay Per View is a little cheaper in the distribution overhead. If NBC is successful in selling the Olympics on PPV for $100-$150 per household, then we will no doubt see things like this occur. --Ken