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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If advertisers listened to the movie industries' slogan "Movies are your best entertainment," and had not taken a chance on the new medium of television, we might be like countries with 2-3 state-sponsored stations, and that's it. (We won't debate whether what we have now is much better...  ) |
Just for interest, IMHO the two taxpayer-funded, ad-free, terrestrial BBC TV channels here in the UK have 10x more "worthwhile" content on them than the 200+ crappy commercial stations I can also receive via satellite
. The enormous benefit the BBC has is that, because it doesn't have to make a profit and is funded by the taxpayer, it's able to make programmes which wouldn't be commercial viable for a broadcaster which has to make a profit - "costume dramas" and so on.