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Re:Pricing Low-Touch SaaS by anonAndOn on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:24PM (#24546045)
Music royalties and professional VJ's (read, unionized) eat into those profit margins. That 70 year old man figured out he could cut costs by hiring unprofessional "reality" actors and running his network on the sweat of young perma-lancers.[0]

[0]https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/12/1968730/-Sumner-R...

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Re:Pricing Low-Touch SaaS by reaperducer on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:04PM (#24546495)
You’re not wrong, but it’s more complicated than that.

TV networks initially embraced reality television because of the Hollywood writers strike. The writers stopped writing, so the networks turned to content that didn’t require writers. Then they discovered that reality television is cheaper, too. The rest is history.

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