On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:49:20 -0400, mike wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:18:17 +0100, "|--Spike=-"
><|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:04:36 -0400, mike wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:17:51 GMT, |--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK (|--Spike=-)
>>>wrote:
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>>>It's interesting hear the Welsh language spoken fluently. I have welsh
>>>ancestors and grew up in an area of the eastern US with many towns
>>>with Welsh names but I never heard it spoken at length. It kinda
>>>sounds like a mix of scandanavian, german and hebrew. I didn't realize
>>>there was a Welsh language TV station in the UK :)
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>>Yep ! S4C has been running for many years (afaik), not that they air
>>many interesting programmes though, but I don't suppose they have the
>>budget of the BBC either, who charge us $190.00 a year Licence Fee for
>>the very few channels they provide. (2 channels that are ANY good to
>>watch).
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>$190 is not bad for quality commmercial free programming. I pay more
>than that for HBO alone. Local commercial filled TV and basic cable is
>$80/month. Free antenna TV is long gone thanks to govt/corp collusion.
>Add in internet and a landline phone (all 3 from one company) and
>we're up to over $3000/yr.
>
>Subscription services where you pay montly fees whether they are used
>or not (like insurance premiums) are a corporate gold mine when you
>consider millions of customers paying hundreds a month. That adds up
>to billions for them each month. Its mind boggling.....
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Even if you don't watch the BBC... but own a TV OR a radio, the TV and
radio are also capable of picking up the BBC channels... therefore...
you are forced to buy a licence !
Shouldn't people be able to choose... as you would when you subscribe
to a provider ? The BBC give us NO choice but to pay.
'My' household also pays for Virgin Media services which total $1855 a
year, (which is still NOT the Full package price) but... I suppose...
We have less to complain about than you do :|
(apart from Petrol prices) <g>
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