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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5367925" data-attributes="member: 15651">I am skeptical of this idea especially for new programming.  With advertising, you are pitching a new show to a limited number of executives to convince them to give you large sums of money.  As a result some of the risk of developing a new show is distributed between the network and the advertisers.  With subscription-based models, you are pitching a new show to a large number of people to convince each of them to give you a small amount of money.  The network (or whoever is airing the show) ends up assuming all of the risk until the show is proven to be a success.Unless things change dramatically, I don't see the model changing that much anytime soon.</blockquote>