"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:37:25 +0000, David Looser wrote:

So if you'd been glued to your TV from Sept 1939 to June 1946
you'd have seen the film twice, thus not "resumed at the exact point"

And complain that all the BBC television service does is
show repeats.

BBC's service to the US over cable seems to be pretty serviceable. They
have at least one channel on our local 999-channel digital system, and
they also have a number of offerings on OTA PBS. PBS is a nationwide
consortium of TV and radio stations, mostly initially operated by large
universities.

The last time I was in the States I complained to someone about just how
utterly dire all the radio stations were that I had tried to listen to on
the radio in my rental car. The response was "try PBS" which I did, and
found that about 50% of the output was simply a relay of the BBC world
service.

David.