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> When you buy ads on TV, the tv station quotes you a price with a certain guaranteed minimum of a rating. If the show the station sold advertising for fails to make that guaranteed minimum rating, the station has to make the ad-buyer whole through "make-goods." Usually just giving the advertiser free ads on other shows to make good for the promised, but undelivered, ratings.
> Usually. The networks don't want to actually return the filthy money they've collected.
> But this year, they have to do just that.
> Because NFL ratings are garbage.
>> When you buy ads on TV, the tv station quotes you a price with a certain guaranteed minimum of a rating. If the show the station sold advertising for fails to make that guaranteed minimum rating, the station has to make the ad-buyer whole through "make-goods." Usually just giving the advertiser free ads on other shows to make good for the promised, but undelivered, ratings.
>> Usually. The networks don't want to actually return the filthy money they've collected.
>> But this year, they have to do just that.
>> Because NFL ratings are garbage.
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