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I cant fuss with $4.50 a week.Probably some of us just pay that much and probably more for cable box rentals.
Now Comcast and other cable companies in the states are charging a broadcast TV fee of US$5.00 per month on the cable bill. Why dont the stations jack up the advert fees instead of screwing the public with this BS charge. |
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The BBC is the very essence of Socialism; it used to be Capitalist until a brutal government takeover in 1926.
Socialist BBC radio failed to give the kids what they wanted the most in the 1950s & 60s: Rock and Roll, (due to an Anti-American bias). Entrepreneurs filled the gap with Pirate Radio stations. Sixty years later the BBC still does not deliver the media kids (Millennials) - and people of color - want. Yet they enforce $20/month from Millennial households when they would rather use the scarce money for smartphone web media. |
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Suggest you also read Briggs, Volume 1 pp327 et seq for a greater understanding of this period of BBC history. |
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Sigh. If only there were a some sort of political forum where this angst would find a happy home...
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Part of me has been considering locking this thread, but I think that would be a bit too heavy handed at this point...
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Well I've found it interesting and learned more about early 20th century Socialism and its connection to media.
Even Milwaukee was run by Socialists at the time of the formation of the BBC! |
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Funny if you read Briggs, he describes how in 1925 none other than David Sarnoff visited John Reith the Managing Director of the British Broadcasting Company to study the funding model. You see in those days, it was thought crass to have selling on the airwaves.
The tide changed when RCA acquired the AT&T station WEAF in 1926 when NBC began. Then William Paley stepped into the picture and US broadcasting was forever changed. As a crown corporation, the BBC maintained government independence, followed capitalist principles and yet secured a funding model which to this day eliminated crass and annoying on air advertising. It is a matter of culture, not socialism vs capitalism. |
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It's a False Dilemma to imply Government needs to get involved. |
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I agree 100 percent.
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The reason the TV licence is so unpopular here is compulsion, as Centralradio says it's cheaper than a US cable TV subscription. But no one in the USA is forced to have cable, over the air TV through an antenna is free. Over the air antenna TV in England is not free, even if you never watch the BBC you are forced to pay for it. Bit like doing your shopping in Albertsons & having to pay Walmart some money as well..
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Heard about terrestrial DTV coverage not covering areas that were covered by terrestrial analogue TV in the USA. In UK the terrestrial DTV (Freeview) coverage is if anything even better than the analogue terrestrial TV coverage was, in the few areas where they cant get good DTV reception (we couldn't get a good DTV signal in Norfolk in the caravan) they use Freesat or Free-cable instead as that carries most of the Freeview channels. A lot of people in nearby European Countries have Freesat. I myself have Freeview & Free-cable from the phone/broadband company (Virgin Media)...
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Just a thought. Is there anything like Freesat or Free-cable in USA? Or do you always have to pay a subscription? When I was in USA (Miami) 20'odd years ago I had a rabbit ears antenna on top of the TV, almost perfect pictures (apart from a bit of ghosting) on the VHF channels, all UHF ones were fuzzy..
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