Well well, I learn something every day. I just had a look and enjoyed some full screen Lords whining about housing. Good times.
I occasionally watch it for PMQ or some of the debates on subjects I'm interested in. I like that it is there. But yeah, it hasn't been a quarter screen for years.How long is it since you watched Parliament?
Whenever I first got freeview, plus about an hour.![]()
It just irritates me when the BBC can't be bothered to put out the necessary money for quality imports, even when they're proven ratings winners on the BBC channels. I remember when 24 started on the Beeb, it was a gold mine for the BBC but they lost it after season 2 because they weren't prepared to bid for it in a grown-ups market.
Oh and a big reason they lost the rights to 24 and Simpsons was political, News Corp were just being bastards and trying to prove Murdoch's point, that rights to shows would become prohibitively expensive for BBC if they stopped paying Sky for encryption on satellite.
good postIn the end everything will suffer because of this, the demand for popular programming then gets them in trouble for not having more highbrow and challenging shows, they do highbrow and challenging they get in trouble for it not being popular. They bow to media pressure and get in trouble for censoring things or not being edgy and moving with the times.
In the end everything will suffer because of this, the demand for popular programming then gets them in trouble for not having more highbrow and challenging shows, they do highbrow and challenging they get in trouble for it not being popular. They bow to media pressure and get in trouble for censoring things or not being edgy and moving with the times.
In the end everything will suffer because of this, the demand for popular programming then gets them in trouble for not having more highbrow and challenging shows, they do highbrow and challenging they get in trouble for it not being popular. They bow to media pressure and get in trouble for censoring things or not being edgy and moving with the times.
Nicely put. Like every other public service (hospitals, teaching, police, councils, etc etc) they simply cannot win. They get criticised whatever they do.
In the end everything will suffer because of this, the demand for popular programming then gets them in trouble for not having more highbrow and challenging shows, they do highbrow and challenging they get in trouble for it not being popular. They bow to media pressure and get in trouble for censoring things or not being edgy and moving with the times.
Nicely put. Like every other public service (hospitals, teaching, police, councils, etc etc) they simply cannot win. They get criticised whatever they do.
seriously? so you have a public service, gathering news and a private company deciding what of that to use? seriously?There's also an argument for the state continuing to maintain its world-class news-gathering operation since it has some intelligence benefits (production/presentation of the news could be privatised though, separately from the gathering side of it).
seriously? so you have a public service, gathering news and a private company deciding what of that to use? seriously?There's also an argument for the state continuing to maintain its world-class news-gathering operation since it has some intelligence benefits (production/presentation of the news could be privatised though, separately from the gathering side of it).
^The problem with this though is that, in this country at least, none of the private options do do the job BBC do....I think some Pay TV operations might spring up to fill the void left by the BBC, but that really defeats the point.^Not if the point was to get rid of a "publicly funded premium service" and replace it with a privately funded one.
I suppose you could argue without the BBC there to fill that need others may spring up in their place, but judging from American TV the only area that would be filled would be decent drama.
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