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Originally Posted by Decagon
Just curious, but does the cost of buying a TV slot to broadcast factor significantly into the budget or is it minor? Or is it one of those things where production committee members have a parent company or a stake in certain broadcasters and are just funneling--- I would assume that otherwise they are competing with bids from infomercial firms for those time slots?
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It really depends on who is on the production committee and such.
It's at least the same cost as an additional episode per 12/13 episodes. (Sorry, the writeup of that is really confusing, here (
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3) are the original links the presentation was based on. The rest of the documents can be found online.)
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I'm wondering what advantage the TV broadcast at rather inconvenient timeslots might have over a solely net based distribution. Is it about distribution or access to the TV broadcaster's audience?
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The advantage is that broadcasters provide more funds into the committee pool. Even productions which do not have a broadcaster attached have someone who has an interest in the TV eyeballs as the commercial slots are still commercials, even if they are passed around among committee members.
There is also the issue of sales with net streaming. Most shows that are net only have done terribly sales wise and while there is some evidence that shows do "better" after being streamed, it may not be more than "Five thousand additional people are watching it and thus you got a 50 sale bump." In other words, there is little to actually say "streaming produces sales." There is also probably an older otaku with money demographic that only watches a DVR.