Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MULTI+2.11; site stc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!pete From: pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.tv Subject: Re: THE TRIPODS (based on John Christopher) Message-ID: <602@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 13:39:09 EDT Article-I.D.: stc-b.602 Posted: Tue Sep 24 13:39:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 04:19:56 EDT References: <1128@mtgzz.UUCP> <577@stc-b.stc.UUCP> <1152@mtgzz.UUCP> <585@stc-b.stc.UUCP> <357@nicmad.UUCP> Reply-To: pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell) Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB. Lines: 47 Xref: watmath net.sf-lovers:10314 net.tv:3264 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: Xpath: stc stc-b stc-a Xref: ukc net.sf-lovers:5020 net.tv:214 In article <357@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes: >In article <585@stc-b.stc.UUCP> pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell) writes: >>Then you have soaps for local consumption, 'Coronation St.', >>'Crossroads', 'Brookside' etc. that run all year round and 2 or 3 >>episodes a week. These are *never* bought by the U.S!!! > >I beg to differ, I believe that 'Coronation St.' was an the USA cable >network. It was dropped as it wasn't getting viewers. Steps backward in amazement! I'm not surprised that nobody watched it. Just staggered that anyone bought it in the first place. > >>BTW, did you know that D****s runs only 47 minutes on the BBC? >>Program lengths *have* to be flexible here! > >It's 47 minutes because the commercials are missing. If I were to tape >it here and leave out the commercials, it will be 47 minutes here as well. > Yes, I know. It's good fun spotting the phantom commercial breaks on imported programmes. It's usually fairly obvious in the way the music swells up to a climax, the camera closes in on an agonised, etc. face, the picture fades... and then the same scene carries on as if nothing had happened! It may interest you to know that there is a movement here to have the BBC carry commercials to avoid having the licence fee go up again. The commercial companies are scared of losing their share of the ad market; the rest of us are horrified at the idea of having a good service wrecked. It seems that only our loony government likes the idea. I'm keeping my fingers crossed... Personally, I resent having to pay higher prices for products with large TV advertising budgets when I watch hardly any commercial TV. The current licence fees are 65 pounds p.a. for colour TV and 18 pounds for B+W. I suppose this compares quite well with some cable services. -- Peter Kendell ...mcvax!ukc!stc!pete 'Only too far is far enough' Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com