Just what I was about to say - "BBC World" tries to be fully metric whereas
"BBC 24" (the UK version) is almost 100% imperial.
The odd thing is that legally you're "not allowed" to watch BBCWorld within
the UK - which I suspect is down to the limited advertising and sponsoring
that you find on BBCW - the very act of advertising on the beeb is frowned
upon by most Brits! ;-)
From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:35486] Re: Pleasure to hear the BBC
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:34:47 -0000
Ezra,
You are listening to the international version of the BBC - the local
version is full of imperial units. In much teh same way, the international
version of CNN is (almost) fully metric, I believe that the local version
is full of customary units.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ezra Steinberg
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: [USMA:35485] Pleasure to hear the BBC
Tonight I listened to the science segment of the BBC World Service about
tsunamis and the one that hit Asia recently.
Except for a couple of mentions of "miles" (to which they quickly added
"kilometres"), the whole discussion was in metric only. What a contrast
with any kind of American broadcast!
Maybe we'll get there over here, too ...
Cheers,
Ezra
