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Originally Posted by steeljack
OK , see your point about "stealing" cable and thats fair enough , but the point I was trying to make is that every TV owning household in the UK is forced under threat of court action to puchase a TV Licence to support the BBC . to my mind thats as much of a monoply as what they 'accuse' Murdoch of having
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True. But most people in the UK are more than happy to pay roughly about £2.50 a week to watch some decent TV without an advert for KFC, Coca-Cola or some other dog food breaking in every six or seven minutes. It's a case of quality over quantity, although that does not mean we don't appreciate good US stuff such as CIS which we now get on digital terrestrial.
That £2.50 compares pretty well with roughly the £7.50 a week you additionally need to pay to tune in to Murdoch's channels; apart from just one or two good 'uns - such as the National Geographic - there is nowt of any value there. Unless, of course, you're interesting in watching a bunch of foreign sodomites kicking a ball around every weekend in which case good luck to you.