in mexico ( i know, nobody asked, but well. . .) . . .
we used to have a government TV system, but it got sold a few years ago in
what has now been known to be a huge fraud, to a private company . . .
still, at least in mexico city, we have four independent tv stations and
two of them are non-commercial. one of them is government funded through
the national council for arts and culture, but it is uhf and most people
still own vhf-only tv sets, plus if you have mutlivision cable, you cannot
watch it. in any case, it is pretty good. half national, half imported
shows. the imported shows come from bbc, pbs and the like and are all very
outdated (which becomes very funny in shows like technology news and the
like), because it takes a while for them to be subtitled. But thei
national programming is very good . . as are the movies! Excellent
international film, uncut. The other one is owned by the National
Polythecnic Institute and it is more science and technology based, but
both are great!
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Olaf Molenveld wrote:
> i live in the netherlands, we have a similar system as in the UK...
>
>
> we have 3 gouvernment supported channels (non commercial), and only one of
> them is interesting enough to watch...the other 2 try to compete for viewers
> with the commercial channels.....because of these channels are funded there
> are a lot of programmes that are for a minority of viewers, which is a good
> thing imho....
>
> then there are a bunch of commercial channels, how many depends on the city
> you live in, because the channels and the local cable-company have to make a
> deal about transmission....where i live we have about 10 commercial
> channels...these are almost all full of crap...bad movies, bad soaps, lots
> of commercials...but they have the largest viewing audience......you
> probably now these channels: Fox, MTV, NBC, CNN, national geographic,
> discovery...
>
> the result: me and my friends watch videos and DVD's almost all the
> time.....or we receive foreign shows or movies in DivX or RealVideo
> format....we create our own programming......
>
> Olaf
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: stephanie <nnine@yahoo.com>
> To: ajlist <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:14 PM
> Subject: How does the BBC work? (was Jazz)
>
>
> > Can anyone across the pond over there explain a bit
> > about how European tv, specifically British tv, works?
> > I know it's a completely different system with fewer
> > chanels, but government funded, with what's generally
> > considered to be better programming. A German friend
> > of mine says the programming that would be comparable
> > to public tc and radio over here is much for
> > up-to-date and experimental, less stuffy. I assume
> > the questions about commercialization v/s gov't
> > control are very different under a system like that.
> >
> > What do you think of that system? How does it work?
> > strengths and weaknesses? i know that's a lot of
> > questions, but i dont' need a thesis, just some
> > general impressions. =)
> >
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