Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: TV Lisence Message-ID: <1438@dciem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 23:46:29 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1438 Posted: Tue Mar 5 23:46:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 06:15:08 EST References: <326@abnji.UUCP> <831@ames.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 15 Summary: > 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 ... Not true. Most places in the UK can get 4 channels or so. How many of the channels you can get in the US show different programs? Half-a- dozen unless you pick up satellite programs directly or have a cable service that does. Even that may be a high number except in big metropolitan areas. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt