But in case the industry doesn't get the message, the forces of change are already at work.

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"Innocent events -- anyone could go to a movie, but we wouldn't get the message that this was for us, " Resnick said.

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And just in case ad buyers didn't get the message this week, the networks made a point of dragging their luminaries to cocktail parties for handshakes and snapshots.

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