Hi Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Horse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hiya >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> [Case] >>>> Receivers do not require licensing transmitters do. >>> Unless you're British: >> But for just 50 pence (about 80 cents) a day we get probably the best >> broadcasting company on the planet - the BBC. It's not perfect by a long >> way but there's no advertising, good TV and Radio programs and an >> excellent web site amongst other facilities. Cheap at several times the >> price. I'm more than happy to pay such a small price for such an >> excellent service. Now if they could just forget about the ratings crap >> it would be nigh on perfect. > > You mean you have to pay to listen to Big Brother? Orwell is rolling in his > grave, poor chap. >
Well, comparing the Quality of the garbage that gets shipped in from the USA and the much higher Quality programming which the BBC produces, give me Big Brother any day (not the reality TV show crap). Most of the US stuff is aimed at the lowest common denominator and the problem there is that you get the lowest common denomination. There are a few US produced things which aren't too bad but most of it really is dire and it seems to be little more than filler in between the ads. Your program producers also seem to try and turn anything vaguely popular into a soap. God help us if that's the future of TV! At least the Beeb does provide a large amount of good comedy, documentary, satire, music, plays etc. and doesn't seem overly concerned about upsetting some with unpopular or different points of view. And they also have the advantage that they don't need to worry about if and/or when they might upset some company which pays the bills through advertising. That's where the real problem lies with advert sponsored TV such as you have in the US. So thanks but I'll stick with Big Brother, no ads and high Quality programs and you can keep the programs which don't offend the precious corporations. Horse moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
