In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Bob Eager
wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:10:50 +0000, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:50:39 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article , Broadback
wrote:
What is the point of spending TV license money Broadcasting
outsides simply for the effect of it. What a load of garbage.

Very true. Move Wimbledon into a studio. You just know it makes
sense.

I'd be more than happy to move Wimbledon to the bin ...

Nothing against tennis or it's devotees personally, but when - in
2019 - programmes are still being bumped for the ****ing tennis, it
reminds me how much I detest sport on TV. A hatred borne of (a) not
really liking sport at school and (b) a childhood of missed TV thanks
to sport overrunning, or simply just being there. Made all the worse
with only 3 channels to chose from.

You had 3 channels? We only had one, until I was eight.

Youngster. None at all until I was 8 or so, and they built a local BBC TV
transmitter.

We didn't get anything in Edinburgh until Coronation year - I was 13!
My parents didn't buy a tv set until about 1960, we watched the Coronation
in a friend's house. The room was packed

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