In many ways, Stan Hubbard would be a lot better off if it were 1985. Life was easier then for independent cable networks to get distribution, advertising and viewers.
In that era, Americans still watched just a few channels, and were far more inclined to drop everything for a week to watch a soapy historical miniseries like North and South.
But in 2011, the fledgling ReelzChannel is in just 60 million homes, stuck on upper-tier channels and receives no carriage fees from cable companies, missing out on that platform’s powerful dual-revenue model.
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