To: agere_contra
Interesting...so now the State has competion from private TV? Hadn't heard that.
76 posted on
02/24/2005 4:57:47 AM PST by
Abundy
To: Abundy
Interesting...so now the State has competion from private TV? Hadn't heard that.
First, to call the B.B.C. a state-broadcaster is misleading it is a public-broadcaster. Secondly, yes is has competition, and has had competition since the '60s (if I remember correctly, might be '50s). There are currently 5 analogue terrestrial channels 2 are B.B.C., then there is I.T.V.1 and Channel 5 which are entirely private and funded through advertising, and Channel 4 which is a private company (owned by the state, though not controlled) also funded by advertising. Additionally most households now have some extra system, the most popular being Sky (satelitte) which gives a few hundred channels.
84 posted on
02/24/2005 5:18:10 AM PST by
tjwmason
(For he himself has said, and it's greatly to his credit, he remains an Englishman.)
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