What central role did the major networks play during era of the classic network system?
a. The networks provided movie studios with a space to air their failed movies, television manufacturers a way to sell continually evolving sets, and audiences with a healthy variety of programming choices.
b. The networks provided advertisers with quality audiences for their upscale corporate clients, local affiliates with payments that allowed them to provide innovative local primetime programs, and audiences with high quality public service programming.
c. The networks provided programmers with a space to air their programs, advertisers with a national audience for their corporate clients, and local affiliates with a steady stream of programming.
d. The networks provided the government with free time for presidential elections, programming to both VHF and UHF stations to help struggling UHF stations to survive, and amateur inventors with airtime to sell their new consumer inventions to television audiences.