PGage, to Adam Bowie: > > I have always assumed that in the US, making baseball (and by analogy > football and basketball and some others) easily accessible to as much of > the public as possible is part of the public service the networks owe the > people in exchange for their use of the public airwaves to make tons of > money. That model has basically broken down here in practice - but is there > a similar understanding in the UK - at least in history? >
While some degree of sports may have been considered part of what was basically in the public interest back in the pre-satellite years, there's never been any mention of them in the applicable regulations... they talk about things like promoting diversity, but things like sports events are left to the discretion of the license holders... B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
