Ops start to bring adult PPV out of the closet. (multiple-systems operators; pay-per-view TV)

Multichannel News, April, 1995 by Umstead, R. Thomas

Once shy about marketing adult pay-per-view programming, operators are beginning to step up promotional efforts to pump up revenue opportunities from the genre. Operators say they've enjoyed higher buy-rates and revenues from their recent aggressiveness in developing campaigns and doing on-air promos for the genre.

Such a strategy would have been unheard of just a few years ago when the controversial nature of adult programming encouraged systems to keep their efforts low key. For years most operators have done business on the assumption that adult programming does not need extensive promotion to sell. With many operators generating upward of 30 percent to 50 percent of its overall PPV revenues from adult product, most marketing efforts have been geared...

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