Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxe!chas From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho,net.flame Subject: Re: Government funded TV. Message-ID: <1007@ihuxe.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 19:03:27 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxe.1007 Posted: Fri Jan 4 19:03:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 03:44:52 EST References: <296@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.tv.drwho:724 net.flame:7468 > We DON'T want the government to pay for it. Who knows > what we will be watching??? I agree the pledge breaks > are in many cases very badly done, but it motivates the > station to play what we want, not what some conehead thinks > will offend the least ammount of people! But..... The BBC is entirely government-funded, by mandatory T.V. licence fee, and they MADE Dr. Who (and Monty Python). Charlie @ ATT "Going through hyperspace is unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's wrong with being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water."