Re: How does the BBC work? (was Jazz)

From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 17:03:05 CET

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    i live in the netherlands, we have a similar system as in the UK...

    we have 3 gouvernment supported channels (non commercial), and only one of
    them is interesting enough to watch...the other 2 try to compete for viewers
    with the commercial channels.....because of these channels are funded there
    are a lot of programmes that are for a minority of viewers, which is a good
    thing imho....

    then there are a bunch of commercial channels, how many depends on the city
    you live in, because the channels and the local cable-company have to make a
    deal about transmission....where i live we have about 10 commercial
    channels...these are almost all full of crap...bad movies, bad soaps, lots
    of commercials...but they have the largest viewing audience......you
    probably now these channels: Fox, MTV, NBC, CNN, national geographic,
    discovery...

    the result: me and my friends watch videos and DVD's almost all the
    time.....or we receive foreign shows or movies in DivX or RealVideo
    format....we create our own programming......

    Olaf

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: stephanie <nnine@yahoo.com>
    To: ajlist <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:14 PM
    Subject: How does the BBC work? (was Jazz)

    > Can anyone across the pond over there explain a bit
    > about how European tv, specifically British tv, works?
    > I know it's a completely different system with fewer
    > chanels, but government funded, with what's generally
    > considered to be better programming. A German friend
    > of mine says the programming that would be comparable
    > to public tc and radio over here is much for
    > up-to-date and experimental, less stuffy. I assume
    > the questions about commercialization v/s gov't
    > control are very different under a system like that.
    >
    > What do you think of that system? How does it work?
    > strengths and weaknesses? i know that's a lot of
    > questions, but i dont' need a thesis, just some
    > general impressions. =)
    >
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