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on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.
BBC:
More than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after colour broadcasts began.
London has the most TV licences for black and white sets at 1,768, followed by 431 in the West Midlands and 390 in Greater Manchester.
A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.
BBC2 was the first channel to regularly broadcast in colour from July that year with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The number of black and white licences has almost halved in the past five years and is down from 212,000 in 2000.
Aha! Those must be the last Manichaeans.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @02:31AM (1 child)
You are obviously not a PBS viewer.
Otherwise, you would be very familiar with the corporate sponsors named before a show starts and those periodic weeks of public begging (er, pledge drives).
PBS gets 80% of its funding from non-government sources.
https://www.quora.com/What-portion-of-PBS-funding-comes-from-the-federal-government [quora.com]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday November 10 2018, @12:44AM
True enough, however, what corporate sponsor supplies more than 20% of PBS' funding?
Mr. Rogers made a very compelling case to Congress, and I'm sure over the years Congress has made a compelling case or two to PBS executives - whether that was made public or not.
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