On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:18:17 +0100, "|--Spike=-"
<|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK> wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:04:36 -0400, mike wrote:
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>>On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:17:51 GMT, |--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK (|--Spike=-)
>>wrote:
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>>It's interesting hear the Welsh language spoken fluently. I have welsh
>>ancestors and grew up in an area of the eastern US with many towns
>>with Welsh names but I never heard it spoken at length. It kinda
>>sounds like a mix of scandanavian, german and hebrew. I didn't realize
>>there was a Welsh language TV station in the UK :)
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>Yep ! S4C has been running for many years (afaik), not that they air
>many interesting programmes though, but I don't suppose they have the
>budget of the BBC either, who charge us $190.00 a year Licence Fee for
>the very few channels they provide. (2 channels that are ANY good to
>watch).
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$190 is not bad for quality commmercial free programming. I pay more
than that for HBO alone. Local commercial filled TV and basic cable is
$80/month. Free antenna TV is long gone thanks to govt/corp collusion.
Add in internet and a landline phone (all 3 from one company) and
we're up to over $3000/yr.
Subscription services where you pay montly fees whether they are used
or not (like insurance premiums) are a corporate gold mine when you
consider millions of customers paying hundreds a month. That adds up
to billions for them each month. Its mind boggling.....
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