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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: TV Lisence
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 14:48:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  3 14:48:27 1985
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> > The BBC as a result
> > does not require commercials.  Given a choice of paying $75/year (I beleive
> > the present fee for a colour TV is 56 pounds) or watching 16-20 minutes of
> > comercials/hour, I'd pay the money.
> 
> If you don't like commercials you can always watch PBS - a functional
> equivalent of BBC.  Of course, you also have 4-30 other channels to
> choose from here and none there ...

Oh, I too prefer paying money to watching commercials.  But I also like to
have twenty or thirty channels to choose from.  In fact, I'm going to have
both (unless I decide that any form of TV is a waste of time).  Ever heard
of cable television?
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

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