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- From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
- Subject: Re: BBC WSTV
- Sender: news@news.mentorg.com (News User)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.181402.17912@news.mentorg.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:14:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.220625.16957@news.mentorg.com> <1992Dec23.131802.488@orbital.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <1992Dec23.131802.488@orbital.demon.co.uk>, steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec21.220625.16957@news.mentorg.com> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
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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.
- |>
- |> However, if WSTV is willing to pay the appropriate price for
- |> distribution in a particular market then it can carry such programming.
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- What you are really saying is that BBCWSTV != BBC enterprises != BBC
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- So continuing to use "BBC" is really misleading - they should use
- some other name for it.
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- I see this as simply a parasite organisation on the back of the BBC - living off
- the BBC's reputation ...
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- Philip
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