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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: TV Lisence
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 19:58:31 EST
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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 ...