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steeljack · 18-01-2007, 05:35

Chipping in as a foreigner, just want to say that the BBC produces some of the best television in the world and you guys don't know how lucky you are , obviously some of the on-air talent is grossly over-paid, their wages could be cut by a half and these folks would still be climbing over each other for air time, where else are they going find to work ...the northern WMC circuit ? or the end of a pier somewhere .
Television here in the US is an abombination , designed for the best advertising demographic (young urban males aged between 18 and 30) incidentally the same demo has the lowest attention span , i.e. television programing for dolts, not sure what the limits are in the UK , but here in the US advertising takes up a minimum of 18 minutes of every hour of broadcasting and radio even more , I'm sure the folks calling for wholesale commercial television don't want that .
One of the few bright spots we have are our PBS stations which show BBC programs, (a one hour episode of Prime Suspect without any interuptions is priceless), and carry BBC World News , believe me when I say the BBC World News 1/2 hour program beats any US news program hands down.
I'm not sure how the finances work at the BBC and can understand folks being upset at the licence fee considering how much money, effort and energy is spent on the world service , (to my mind the world service should be financed by the Govt. since its an arm of the Govt. 'propagnda' division).

18-01-2007, 05:35	#24
steeljack God Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SF/ Bay Area California Posts: 4,002 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 1338	Re: TV license Chipping in as a foreigner, just want to say that the BBC produces some of the best television in the world and you guys don't know how lucky you are , obviously some of the on-air talent is grossly over-paid, their wages could be cut by a half and these folks would still be climbing over each other for air time, where else are they going find to work ...the northern WMC circuit ? or the end of a pier somewhere . Television here in the US is an abombination , designed for the best advertising demographic (young urban males aged between 18 and 30) incidentally the same demo has the lowest attention span , i.e. television programing for dolts, not sure what the limits are in the UK , but here in the US advertising takes up a minimum of 18 minutes of every hour of broadcasting and radio even more , I'm sure the folks calling for wholesale commercial television don't want that . One of the few bright spots we have are our PBS stations which show BBC programs, (a one hour episode of Prime Suspect without any interuptions is priceless), and carry BBC World News , believe me when I say the BBC World News 1/2 hour program beats any US news program hands down. I'm not sure how the finances work at the BBC and can understand folks being upset at the licence fee considering how much money, effort and energy is spent on the world service , (to my mind the world service should be financed by the Govt. since its an arm of the Govt. 'propagnda' division).