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Does more choice equal less quality TV channels?

renegadefm · 2020-01-26 22:58:14

I remember when I was a child television seemed to cram so much variety and quality programmes on just 3 channels, now we have all this choice via hundreds of channels it feels like we actually have a lot less quality. Hence the saying quantity verses quality. I was just 13 when Channel 4 was first broadcast in 1982, but…

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A_Lert Posts: 609 Forumite

28 January 2020 at 12:31PM

90% of everything is crap. Over time we forget about it and only remember the good.

The numerous channels often are filled with repeats. Not always a bad thing, if you're tech-averse or live somewhere with useless internet.

The TV License needs to take a hike though. The BBC should be funded by general taxation. But collecting the license fee it is a juicy contract outsourced to a private company who make millions from it. You think the government will stop that?

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