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Posted by AlanG on 09/25/06 17:18
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:57:05 +0100, "Andy F Batter"
<uknewsgroups@gmail.com> wrote:
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>"Roberto Pirezzi" <roberto_pirezzi@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> The licence fee is worth it anyway, even if it is only to watch competing
>> channels shows, such as deal or no deal :-)
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>You have to take into account that the BBC provides a service no commercial
>station would. Broadcasters led by advertising revenue disregard minority
>needs, as they're always chasing the biggest audience.
So the (*1)BBC needs a 3 billion pounds a year subsidy to cater for
minority needs?
ROFLMCO
I'm sure the BBC could manage on half a billion a year from the
exchequer and produce minority programs to counterbalance the more
commercially successful. I have no doubt Top Gear would be snapped up
by and commercial station so there is no need to worry your head on
that score.
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>During my nan's last days, she was regularly tuned into BBC Radio
>Cambridgeshire, which seems geared-up to cater for those who want to hear
>"we'll gather lilacs" and other similarly nauseating tunes from the pre-war
>era. It's a public service that's appreciated by many, but were it not for
>the Beeb, what else would old folk have to listen to?
I'm sure a commercial venture would step in. You have heard of classic
FM?
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>Those who are dissing the Beeb now, may well be more thankful of its
>existence in 40 years time... Can you imagine commercial radio blue rinse?
>"Sponsored by Stannah stairlifts, coming up how to stiff your kids out of
>their inheritance with equity release with Norwich Union, but first, do you
>worry about who's going to pay for your funeral? Why not pay now, die
>later?"
So what? There are three channels currently available where they show
free programs in the hope the viewer will buy a product advertised.
Seems to work quite well.
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>The whole I want to pay just for what *I* watch is a selfish argument, and
>you're not seeing the broader picture.
Nah. The selfish are the people who want others to pay for their
entertainment. Want to see single mothers and pensioners sent to
prison because they can't afford the TV tax.
> The BBC, like the NHS and the Police
>is a state service funded by the taxpayer. Healthy people could argue that
>it's unjust that they're forced to support the NHS, it's effectively the
>same argument.
You equate saving people's lives with Jonathon Ross asking someone if
he wanks over (*2)Margaret Thatcher?
*1 (British Broadcasting Company AKA as ' The Evil Empire. Given to
sending men round to harrass people into paying TV tax even when they
do not have a TV.)
*2(Twentieth century Tory Bitch Goddess to whom the tories sacrificed
their first born. Wonder why she never privatised the BBC)
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