And AMC's response that the studios were overcharging them for movie rights
and that if they remained commercial-free, their subscriber fees would be
up there with ESPN. And to sell ads, you had to get the demos down--fact
of life in television.
And to get personal, to me Bob Dorian always felt t
I think you will find, upon closer investigation, that most of the old
movie fans' complaints revolve around three specific changes made over the
past several years at AMC:
- Commercialization (especially spacing of breaks at such short
intervals that the breaks seem longer than the cont