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by lostcolony 3827 days ago
Who -does- have the overhead of filling 24 hours a day with new content, exactly? Because broadcast TV is what gave us 'reruns' in the first place. All -they- have to do is fill evening TV viewing (and even then only a couple time slots on a couple days; the rest they can, and do, leave to reruns). The need for content production is no different. The benefit to Netflix is that it's on demand, so they aren't -limited- to that 24 hour block. Other TV studios, to air something, have to free up their schedule; Netflix just adds it to their catalog.