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From: pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell)
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Subject: Re: THE TRIPODS (based on John Christopher)
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:39:09 EDT
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In article <357@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>In article <585@stc-b.stc.UUCP> pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell) writes:
>>Then you have soaps for local consumption, 'Coronation St.',
>>'Crossroads', 'Brookside' etc. that run all year round and 2 or 3
>>episodes a week. These are *never* bought by the U.S!!!
>
>I beg to differ, I believe that 'Coronation St.' was an the USA cable
>network.  It was dropped as it wasn't getting viewers.

        Steps backward in amazement! I'm not surprised that nobody
        watched it. Just staggered that anyone bought it in the first
        place.
>
>>BTW, did you know that D****s runs only 47 minutes on the BBC?
>>Program lengths *have* to be flexible here!
>
>It's 47 minutes because the commercials are missing.  If I were to tape
>it here and leave out the commercials, it will be 47 minutes here as well.
>

        Yes, I know. It's good fun spotting the phantom commercial
        breaks on imported programmes. It's usually fairly obvious in
        the way the music swells up to a climax, the camera closes in
        on an agonised, etc. face, the picture fades... and then the
        same scene carries on as if nothing had happened!

        It may interest you to know that there is a movement here to
        have the BBC carry commercials to avoid having the licence
        fee go up again. The commercial companies are scared of
        losing their share of the ad market; the rest of us are
        horrified at the idea of having a good service wrecked. It
        seems that only our loony government likes the idea. I'm
        keeping my fingers crossed...

        Personally, I resent having to pay higher prices for products
        with large TV advertising budgets when I watch hardly any
        commercial TV.

        The current licence fees are 65 pounds p.a. for colour TV and
        18 pounds for B+W. I suppose this compares quite well with
        some cable services.
-- 
	Peter Kendell 

	...mcvax!ukc!stc!pete

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