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  • #32
    Sin e an Fear
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    watty wrote:
    And BBC World is better than BBC News 24 unless you live in the English Home Counties.

    I do, but I don't want News 24. However, BBC Four shows The World, which is fine as it's at peak time. When the explosion in Hemel Hempstead happened at the weekend I changed over to CNN to get away with it - only to have an interesting documentary interrupted by a breaking news update on the frigging fire...
    I have no idea why Sky News is FTA on most satellites while Fox News is a Pay channnel. Frankly Fox News is rubbish compare with Sky and yet are essentially the same owner.

    That's one channel I don't get on Telewest cable. I heard somebody at Fox News accuse the BBC of 'frothing-at-the mouth anti-Americanism'. 'Frothing at the mouth'? now that's rich coming from the home of Ann Coulter. (She told a Canadian TV interviewer that Canada supported the US in Vietnam, when she actually meant that some Canadians served in the US Army there - could you imagine a Brit asserting the same about Ireland in the Second World War, just because some Irish citizens served in the British Army?:p)
    Charles Slane wrote:
    Poor old Scott Chisholm.

    Imagine starting a new high-profile job on a TV station, believing it to be the restart your career needed, only to have the channel close down the next month .....

    Oh my heart bleeds :rolleyes: - especially after the way his old man behave when he took over BSB in 1990. Abusive, hunchbacked little Nazi with a chip on his shoulder the size of New Zealand who went around kicking people in the shins. He's got emphysema - hope he dies a painful death....


  • #33
    Elmo
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    could you imagine a Brit asserting the same about Ireland in the Second World War, just because some Irish citizens served in the British Army

    Quite different. The British had to go to war in 1939. America didn't need to go to Vietnam.

    We are a Neutral country.

    It would be more like if some was to suggest that we help the British with the Falklands war.


  • #34
    DMC
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    Less of the history lessons, lads. On topic, please :D


  • #35
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Frankly Fox News is rubbish compare with Sky and yet are essentially the same owner

    Actually not the case. News Corp only own 36.8% of BSkyB.

    I can't help but wonder was ITV's acquisition of friendsreunited.co.uk inspired by News Corp's purchase of myspace.com though! The funding has to come from somewhere..


  • #36
    Sin e an Fear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Sin e an Fear


    Elmo wrote:
    Quite different. The British had to go to war in 1939. America didn't need to go to Vietnam...

    Whatever, you get the point I was making.

    Anyway, the introduction of ITV bulletins on ITV2 and ITV3 should compensate for ITV News Channels, and if anyone's desperate for a full-length ITV News bulletin on the weekend they can watch the early morning one on ITV1 at 05:30. It used to be presented by some of the most wooden people you'll ever see on television, and incorporated the unlamented ITN World News


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