Dave Plowman (News) said:
In article ,
Richard Robinson wrote:
The bit about carrying advertising for its own products is right, though,
and I'd rather it was free of adverts.

I'd rather not have adverts in the cinema either. But, like the BBC, they
only run them before the programme starts. Not several times within it.

True. It increases the likelihood of my turning it off rather than seeing
what comes next ...

But I only listen to its radio output, so I don't contribute to its
upkeep either way.

Very surprising the numbers who claim to never watch TV. ;-)

Not me. Going on the last 20 years' average (ono), I expect to watch it for
about an hour a year, while visiting friends who are into it. I have seen
Big Brother, $Somewhere's Got Talent, Springwatch ... More than "never",
anyway.

I've met people who tell me it's "fashionable¨ to claim not to own one, at
the moment. I wouldn't know, these fashion things change so fast ...

I *did* own a telly, once. I had it plugged^Hsoldered into the output of a
Sinclair Spectrum.


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