AFN - armed forces network.
Over here in Iraq we got about 7 channels of AFN. We just got over the super bowl but they didnt/werent allowed to show the (cool?) commercials that everyone else saw.

AFN even made a 15 second spot that said "we'd like to show you commercials during the super bowl, but if we did, we'd have to pay for programming and we can't afford to do that"

this seems like a failure of a few business paradigms.
I assume that the broadcast of the SB was donated or given at reduced cost to AFN
normally, TV stations get paid to air a company's advertisement.
Why can't AFN take them for free ? they'd be giving the advertising company a deal - we'll air your stuff, and not make you pay anything.

I'm sure that AFN plays by very different rules than NBC/ABC/CBC/Any cable station (I'd love to see public reaction to some of the 'anti-terrorism' commercials that I get to watch =) But this just doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone clear this up ?

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