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From: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Paying for TV programs, here and in UK
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:23:05 EST
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>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.

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