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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Power
- From: Power@cup.portal.com (Ron A Uitz)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.satellite
- Subject: Re: BBC WSTV
- Message-ID: <72154@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:35:24 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Dec21.220625.16957@news.mentorg.com>
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- >BBC WSTV is currently News and documentary oriented, since the interesting
- >(read saleable) programs are picked up by BBC enterprises, and sold
- >individualy.
-
- I disagree with your assumption. You've no doubt noticed that CNN is
- news oriented and seems to be quite "saleable"; it's picked up around the
- world. CNN is also a private for-profit entity. So I see nothing wrong
- with the BBC setting up BBC WSTV as a profit oriented market-driven
- enterprise, to the relief of the beleaguered British taxpayers. Imagine
- the United States government instituting a television tax akin to the
- British tv receiver tax in order to subsidize the marketing of Hollywood
- programs overseas!
-