{"id":2368,"date":"2009-11-30T12:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2009-11-30T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T17:38:00","slug":"should-congress-ban-dvrs-to-save-network-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2368\/should-congress-ban-dvrs-to-save-network-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Congress Ban DVRs to Save Network Television?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, consumers still like options and the technology that provides them.\u00a0 Since late night host Jay Leno moved down the clock to the 10pm hour, NBC\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9C9BVNO0&amp;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">ratings have taken a substantial nosedive because people are recording his show on DVR while watching other shows when they air<\/a>.\u00a0 The problem for NBC doesn\u2019t just stop at drops in air time viewers.\u00a0 NBC\u2019s advertisers are feeling the pinch because later viewings on DVR recordings make it possible to skip commercials.\u00a0 The less people watch ads, the less companies will pay to air them, which means the less money networks like NBC will make to produce television shows.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, something must be done.\u00a0 Simply put, it\u2019s time for Congress to act because Jay Leno is too big (a chin) to fail.\u00a0 Network television executives just need a little help from Big Brother in \u201cequalizing\u201d the market in their favor.\u00a0 Think of it as \u201cnet neutrality\u201d for broadcasters and advertisers.\u00a0 Since the mantra around Washington right now is to do anything that increases consumption, it\u2019s time to ban the DVR as an impediment to economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, consumers still like options and the technology that provides them.\u00a0 Since late night host Jay Leno moved down the clock to the 10pm hour, NBC\u2019s ratings have taken a substantial nosedive because people are recording his show on DVR while watching other shows when they air.\u00a0 The problem for NBC doesn\u2019t just stop at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,566,564,565],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-dvr","tag-jay-leno","tag-nbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}