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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
A domestic broadcaster bought the rights to show a foreign broadcast - of course they are going to sell their own ads to recover their costs and to profit from it. I'd imagine that any other country would have their own domestic ads as well.
Plus, with the advertisers' primary goal being for these ads to go "viral", they're not exactly going to be hard to find, are they?
The Canadian advertisers could step it up a few notches, for sure, and Budweiser should be commended for actually putting a bit of effort into a Canadian ad. But I certainly don't expect CTV to ante up the cash for a broadcast and then take a pass on the advertising revenues.
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Good post, I agree.
For all those complaining about sim subbing issues, network tv is essentially simsubbed for American's too. The local affiliate retransmits the broadcast with their commercials, and they do have their own issues with not cutting back to the program in time, etc. Don't even get me started about how much the affiliates screwed things up in early days of HD! There are cases where my local affiliate doesn't even show a forth round of a major golf tournament to show a college B-ball game.