chiaroscuro wrote:When will our marketers ever learn than so-called "line-extention' doesn't work?
You have a popular product called "XYZ-product", so you start a new line called "XYZ-something" in order to ride on the popularity of the name "XYZ"
Sounds like a good idea, but in reality, it doesn't work! It actually weakens the original XYZ name.
There is a strong newspaper called "NATION"; they branched into broadcasting and started Nation FM and Nation TV...
The two performed so poorly and even started weakening the "Nation" name for the newspaper market.
They were revamped and re-issued as NTV and Easy FM... still didn't do too well but... at least surviving.
Then came a new kid in the stable: QFM.... according to @l o l e s t (above) this id doing better than Easy FM. So NMG thinks they can ride on the "Q" popularity and have created QTV
My prediction: it will flop flat on it's belly! This is a non-starter!
@chiaroscuro (What a name, I have to copy&paste). Anyway, I agree with you on this one. Same thing happened to Classic TV.