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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
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 23:46:29 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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> 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
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