On 2016-11-22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Ian

wrote:
Advertising is a cancer. Once it gets established it takes over and
eventually destroys the host. Television used to be to "Entertain,
Inform and Educate", now it's just an advertising platform with the
programmes as a necessary but irritating cost.

Perhaps you don't know history, but ITV started in the mid 1950s. Called
by one of its owners, 'A licence to print money' And the competition also
kicked the BBC into making better programmes.

Oh, I know history, and count the launch of ITV as the point of infection.
Of course in the early days it was good, as with the internet the money
from advertising helped produce some real gems (cf. google earth), and
as you say the competition was beneficial. But eventually the greed takes
over from the well-intentioned, and they're now on the way to being as bad
as American TV - a constant stream of adverts interrupted by brief segments
of programme (with overlay adverts just to get an extra few cents...).

And now the BBC seems to be competing to be as /bad/ as ITV...


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Ian

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