All posts by Kentman
Below are all of Kentman's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
To Ian Grice
I am very happy to pay the licence fee the cost of a pint of beer a week, for a house hold, and not plagued by adverts. The average
cost of Sky is £10 per week and adverts on top of that, do you really want a TV system like that.
Why did the PSB channels give Sky a leg up to start off! it was political interference of course. If someone had a corner shop business running for 30 years would you give a new start up shop a leg up to start, of course not. If Sky was to start up in a true
free market they would have failed within a couple of years, so once again as with Banks
Capitalism for some Socialism for Bankers and Murdoch when in trouble.
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Duncan
Sometimes I wonder if you are on the same Planet as me!
The Licence fee paid is to fund the BBC, it is not a subsidy, it is a way of paying for a Radio TV system without advertising revenue or a subscription to pay for an alternative system.
I used the reference to the price of a Pint of Beer as cost equivalence. But as you wish to use beer as an analogy then I would conpare it with the way English beer, in the main a very good product, was very nearly destroyed by Monopoly big business, who tried to foist upon the nation the very beer that you mention, frothy watery rubbish, a bit like Sky TV.
I have never worked for the BBC infact for ITV as Coms Engineer I was working at Martlesham Heath Post office research Station in 1988, (we injected signals into the PO infrastructure) when I was informed that the PO did infact want to put fibre optic cable throught the nation but was stopped by Mrs Thatcher, who allowed companies such as NTL into the country who dug up our roads and put in copper wire cable. NTL lost $11 billion and had to be refinanced, what a loss to the country.We could be ahead of the world on Broadband coverage not lagging behind once again due to ignorant politicians, some with vested !! interests.
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Duncan
The Government did not sell all of it's share of the PO until the early nineties
and most of the efforts of the Engineers and investment in the research regarding fibre optics was during the Post Office management time.
Again what Planet do you live on, you have fallen for the old choice myth, propogated by
so called free marketers. Look at the Utility companies what a choice, the Banks what a choice? The bus companies/railways what a choice.
Leave the choice to Fruit and veg sellers etc,should we run a parallel Electrical Grid system, Gas infrastructure or more to the point Radio & TV system. No! Privatisation only piggy backs on these systems and cherry picks the market.Radio and Television is far to important to be left in the hands of commercial interests or governments. The UK had evolved a very successful compromise system, that had served the people well, would the privateers have bothered with the less profitable areas of the listening or viewing population. Many people do not wish to have advertising interupting a program and they are entitled to a choice, to have an alternative system available and are happy to pay a licence fee, your ideas would put a stop to their choice.
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Duncan
You do wish to live in a different world,
your right to think that way, But do not run away with the idea that it will make a better TV system, I have worked and travelled in many countries and believe me The UK system is still one of the best if not THE best. Many people do not wish your system implemented here in the UK, there is quite enough commercial inroads and we need a counterbalance,healthy for democracy, have you seen Fox news?
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Ofcom have taken the Iranian Channel PRESS TV off the Sky Platform. However Press TV is transmitting on Hotbird @12437 H S/r27500 and on Astra 1 1246 H 27500 they also say they are transmitting on Eurobird @ 28 degres transponder frequency is 11222 H S/R 27500 I have tried two free to air tuners and have been unable to locate Press TV all other Channels are present on that Transponder Have Ofcom managed to block that channel on that transponder?
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2 days ago Any one tried to get this channel on Eurobird @28 degrees??
Ofcom have taken the Iranian Channel PRESS TV off the Sky Platform. However Press TV is transmitting on Hotbird @12437 H S/r27500 and on Astra 1 1246 H 27500 they also say they are transmitting on Eurobird @ 28 degres transponder frequency is 11222 H S/R 27500 I have tried two free to air tuners and have been unable to locate Press TV all other Channels are present on that Transponder Have Ofcom managed to block that channel on that transponder?
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You get better coverage of the Middle east
situation from RT Ch 85 Al Jazeera is run by a "Royal family" and many journalists have resigned because of biased coverage
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Tuesday 22 February 2011 5:19PM
Dump the Sky Boxs and get a free sat Reciever cheapest is from Argos a Bush at £29.99 I have three folks using them all working ok has UK EPG but can add extra channels if needed. Just plug in the Sky dish it is looking at Astra 2 so will need no further adjustments