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December 5th, 2010, 06:08 AM | #51 |
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Benny was totally juvenile... No wonder I loved him! Totally subversive and atavistic. Kind of like a Limey John Belushi....
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According to the latest Top Gear magazine, a US Top Gear is being aired (about now) on the History Channel. It looks like a clone of the BBC programme with "A Big Star In A Small Car" feature, an American "Stig", and an airfield test-track. Apparently it's also filmed in a disused hangar at an ex-marine airbase called El Toro. The presenters are Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust, and Adam Ferrara.
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Where I live I can get 4 chanels at the moment as we have not had digital switchover yet and our relay station does not carry the 5th chanel that most of the UK gets. My son lives 12 miles away and he is tuned to a new digital transmitter and he gets around 60 free to air chanels (only pay for the BBC TV licence). This is through an ariel and not a satelite dish From what I can see, a lot of the free stuff is repeats of classic shows like Star Trek, Top Gear, Dad's Army etc and there are quite a few mind warping shopping chanels. We are due to digiatl switchover in about 6 months and should get around 20 free to air chanels once we have upgraded our old ariel and bought a set top decoder box for each TV in the house. We will still only have to buy the yearly BBCTV licence In addition we do have the option of Pay cable or Pay satelite on monthly sunscription but these do not work in all the country, for example my village does not have a cable hook up and becuase of hills and trees we cant get a view of the satelite and hence we are waiting for them to upgrade our old Wharfe Valley Relay transmitter to digital |
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December 5th, 2010, 09:23 AM | #54 |
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Somewhat ironically, I pay the BBC for a licence, but (with the exception of the F1 Grands Prix) I now only watch the Freeview channels ... Dave, Quest and Yesterday.
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So as not to confuse people, I should make it clear that we in the UK do *not* pay the BBC for a licence. What we do is pay for a licence to receive television (and radio) broadcasts, which would be required even if you fixed your system not to get BBC-origin transmissions at all. It is basically a tax, but in this instance one which is essentially ringfenced and given to the BBC as operating capital. Which is, I believe, a wonderful thing as it means we are spared, on at least four channels of tv and several on radio), the curse of advertising. Which is actually even worse on the digital channels than it is on the (formerly) analogue broadcasts, with breaks being dropped in with no warning and without any regard to the flow of the programme.
I am a huge fan of the BBC - in particular BBC 4, which seems to me to embody eveything that used to be so good about BBC2, and Channel 4, before they were compromised (by the gutter press rather than actual public demand) to dumb down to a degree that Channel 4 in particular is largely uninteresting today. And I say that as someone who watched the first night of C4 transmission boggle-eyed with delight and was a big fan for years thereafter. And I'm not taking what the red-tops call an elitist attitude either; in a typical week I watch as much of the much-maligned Channel Five as anything else. Yes, lots of it is rubbish and I am particularly disengaged by whole evenings of nothing but US-origin films and programmes (and yet they have a sister channel called 5-USA...why?!?!?) but there'd some spiffing stuff on there from time to time. yes, I love documentaries about big technology. I don't entirtrely agree that 'most' of the material on the digital channels is repeats. A lot, but less than you think. And anyway, if something is worth seeing, its probably worth seeing again. Would you throw a book away once read, never to want to read or even think about it again. Well, depends on the book I supppose, as well as what you choose to watch on tv. |
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When it comes to documentaries, politics anything "highbrow" the Brits win hands down. The BBC is probably the most respected broadcaster on the planet. I still tune into the world service when i'm on my travels.
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I'm a fan of US round and round in ovals racing, which has very little coverage in the UK, so to watch anything beyond the Cup races I have to seek out illegally broadcast internet streams. These come with all the US advertising that goes with the broadcast on the local channel.
Oh dear, there seems to be a break every five minutes, two if there's a caution and it seems to be mostly aimed at men who either can't get it up or can't pee . They advertise perscription medication and spend half the advert advising of side effects. Long live the BBC and the way it is funded as far as I am concerned! |
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I've seen some of the broadcasts you describe, and the "small print" they have to read out in the adverts is amazing! There was one which said something along the lines of "In clinical trials, heart attacks and deaths were observed, but it's not entirely certain that these were a result of the medication"!
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