Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site flame.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!flame!kay From: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Paying for TV programs, here and in UK Message-ID: <366@flame.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:23:05 EST Article-I.D.: flame.366 Posted: Wed Mar 6 04:23:05 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:03:37 EST References: <326@abnji.UUCP> <4741@mit-vax.UUCP> Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK Lines: 23 Keywords: BBC coercion commercials libertarian wonderbread accents english >Note that BBC is free to produce a high-quality, not particularly >popular show. It won't lose revenue by it. Unlike us... >Give me the British system any day. (Too bad they have such abominable >accents.) The wonder of it is, though, that even though they are free to do so, they almost invariably don't. If idiot-fodder looks like pulling up the ratings, idiot-fodder we get. In fact, (in my opinion) Channel 4 (the relatively new commercial channel) produces more higher-quality stuff than BBC2, the BBC "intellectual" channel. Mind you, I don't watch very much TV (rots the mind, you know). Oh, by the way: British people don't have abominable accents; on the whole we find them pleasant (apart from Lancashire :-)). I'm afraid, though, that I find most American accents either appalling or hysterically funny. (No flames, please; we're British) Kay. -- Ceci n'est pas un article. ... mcvax!ukc!ubu!flame!kay