OFF: Silly laws in the UK

[Paul G Ward]

On 19 Jan 97 at 13:10, Carl E. Anderson wrote:

>         Also speaking as a person who has experienced both the US and UK
> television systems, I can completely agree with all this.  The TV license
> in the UK basically is like a mandatory public television system except
> without fund drives :)  Ya sends in your "donation" and Auntie Beeb
> sends you the good stuff.

Down Under, we all pay about $8 per week to have the priviledge of
receiving the ABC (our equivalent of the BBC). There's no fines or
anything involved tho ... it comes off our income tax.

> > Of course, the BBC does put on some really crap stuff - one of the things
> > you don't get in the US is the Australian Soaps - but at least there are
> > only 2 channels of crap at any one time rather than 57 channels of crap all
> > at the same time.

At least the ABC doesn't show our crap soaps ... we have commercial
TV for that ;^)

And we can even watch BBC soaps on cable as well as on the ABC now
.... lucky us.

Paul

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