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Sky at Night
I remember when anything that you were not commenting about was cut out, but
that was in the early days of news groups when we had slow modems. :-) I remember Open University programmes on BBC2 being very grey and staid but carrying real information and being fascinating. You know - really teaching something. Latterly, though, they had become very colourful and musical but were more like introductions to the subjects and didn't go in to any detail. At that point I lost interest in them. I was a student with the Open University and the programmes were a part of the course work, but if you missed the programme you missed part of the course and they may not have been on when a student should have watched them. It was these programs that got me into studying with the OU. The biggest problem was that the courses were update so the programmes were no longer relevant, by putting the course work on a CD/DVD we could use them when we needed them. They still make good programs with quality camera work and access to places where normal people would never get. But why do they seem to treat each program as a beginners guide. I can think, imagine and discuss most things in-depth, but from my experience the BBC seem to pander to the masses whose attention span is limited and will switch off if it is not edu-tainment. For example, Country File is all fragmented reports with the same reminder cropping up three or four times of what is actually being reported. Why can't they do a single report from beginning to end in one go and cut out the repeated reminders. Maybe that would give time to included a more in-depth report or another completely different subject in the same program. Fragmentation means that they need less content for a programme, the constant reminders of what is coming up or has been shown before wasting time What is the fixation about pandering to the ratings? If people switch off they still get the licence revenue. If people zap through ad breaks on commercial TV then tough titty for the advertisers but the TV but the TV companies still get the ad revenue. If people don't watch the BBC there is no argument for the licence fee. If people don't watch commercial TV Channels the advertisers don't use that Channel. I suspect that most commercial channels are supported by package charges for the none free to view channels. tisers don't use that station. eople don't watch commercial TV the advertisers don't use that station |
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