Surely they can't find more garbage to fill yet more channels? I really am more interested in program-content quality than watching shopping channels, house-flogging and porn in extremely fine screen detail with 20 minutes of adverts every hour. I think the BBC does a great job and would rather pay a higher licence fee than subsidize the big M's barrel scraping any day - and I really don't want local TV channels to give me on-the-spot reports of Mrs Pepperpot's drain blockage at no.56 down the road. I've got local radio stations I can avoid listening to for that purpose. Let's provide quality programming to everybody first and then think about opening it out to all the garbage.
Tuesday 4 December 2012 1:16AM
Surely they can't find more garbage to fill yet more channels? I really am more interested in program-content quality than watching shopping channels, house-flogging and porn in extremely fine screen detail with 20 minutes of adverts every hour. I think the BBC does a great job and would rather pay a higher licence fee than subsidize the big M's barrel scraping any day - and I really don't want local TV channels to give me on-the-spot reports of Mrs Pepperpot's drain blockage at no.56 down the road. I've got local radio stations I can avoid listening to for that purpose. Let's provide quality programming to everybody first and then think about opening it out to all the garbage.