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Re: OT: articles on commercial television debut, 1939 [message #340192] Sat, 25 March 2017 06:36
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On 2017-03-24, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2017-03-24, Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> On 24 Mar 2017 18:56:31 GMT, Huge wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2017-03-24, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 6:49:41 AM UTC-6, Osmium wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > I wish the USA had followed the fee model of the UK. Television in the
>>>> > US is becoming more and more useless and unwatchable because of the high
>>>> > commercial content.
>>>>
>>>> Some people expressed that wish in Canada as well, in a column in
>>>> Macleans I remember reading, at least.
>>>>
>>>> I vehemently disagree.
>>>>
>>>> A TV license fee would mean that people couldn't economically keep
>>>> their old TV sets they no longer use around to serve as monitors for
>>>> the early 8-bit computers.
>>>
>>> Err, the license covers as many TVs as you like in the same house. We have
>>> three TVs - one license.
>>
>> Also zero? That's the case in Germany from what I heard: you pay that fee
>> no matter if you even own a single TV,
>
> No. Although you will be pestered by the enforcers from the licensing
> authority.
>
>

Book some years ago "1984" or similiar title, Japanese colonist
flees Manchuria after WWII, and gets back to Japan, and is forced to
work as a TV licence inspector, with the result that everyone hates
him.
(No, its not the Eric Blair one)


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