<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 9, 2008 8:16 AM, Chris Pinkham <<a href="mailto:cpinkham@bc2va.org">cpinkham@bc2va.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">* On Sat Feb 09, 2008 at 06:47:15AM -0500, Bruce Taber wrote:<br>> Nah, I don't buy this argument. If that were the case why do they<br>> shutdown the churches and places that get groups of people to go out and<br>
> sit through the entire game?<br><br></div>Probably because they have no way of knowing how many people<br>are there and can only count it as one household as far as<br>the advertisers are concerned. And possibly because if those<br>
people are sitting at church watching the game on the projector<br>and 20-foot screen, then they're not at home in front of their<br>Neilson (sic?) box.</blockquote><div> </div><div>The law they are using is kinda out dated. The federal law says 55" or smaller and exempts sports bars. Now this kills me why exempt people making money off the game but not the church who is just trying to attract people that normally might not go to church or who haven't gone in awhile, but don't make money off the game. Second I quote <span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody">NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy: </span></span><span class="vitstorybody"><span class="vitstorybody"> "We have no
objection to churches and others hosting Super Bowl parties as long as
they . . . show the game on a television of the type commonly used at
home," he said. "It is a matter of copyright law." I know more and more people with screens bigger than 55". My dad uses a projector on his basement wall for HD content. So with TV's getting bigger and bigger that the average consumer can buy (didn't CES have some 150" plasma's on display this year?) I think the 55" is outdated. <br>
<br>As far as the counting argument, that's what happens now anyways. How many of you know people who go to superbowl parties? (That's how the superbowl didn't get recorded in my house, doh) That only counts as 1 household. I guess you could say the church can hold more, but Bars can too and are they able to count how many in a bar for advertsing?<br>
</span></span> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>--<br><font color="#888888">Chris<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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