BBC in France

In article ,
"T. Fink" wrote:

It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.

There is no advertising on any BBC channels except World (and possibly
Prime) - apart, that is, from the BBC's own adverts.

Simon Gardner wrote:
In article ,
"T. Fink" wrote:


It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.


There is no advertising on any BBC channels except World (and possibly
Prime) - apart, that is, from the BBC's own adverts.



I as answering to Watty about him watching German, Italian, etc. programmes.

CU

Torsten

Simon Gardner wrote:
In article ,
"T. Fink" wrote:


It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.


There is no advertising on any BBC channels except World (and possibly
Prime) - apart, that is, from the BBC's own adverts.



I as answering to Watty about him watching German, Italian, etc. programmes.

CU

Torsten

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:50:22 +0100, rnet[dot]co[dot]uk (Simon
Gardner) wrote:

In article ,
"T. Fink" wrote:

It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.

There is no advertising on any BBC channels except World (and possibly
Prime) - apart, that is, from the BBC's own adverts.

For such products as all of the various spin-off magazines from all their
garden/house/animal makeover programmes. And the Radio Times.


--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:50:22 +0100, rnet[dot]co[dot]uk (Simon
Gardner) wrote:

In article ,
"T. Fink" wrote:

It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.

There is no advertising on any BBC channels except World (and possibly
Prime) - apart, that is, from the BBC's own adverts.

For such products as all of the various spin-off magazines from all their
garden/house/animal makeover programmes. And the Radio Times.


--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:57:24 +0100, Noel
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:22:56 GMT, Nigel Barker wrote:

And everybody knew that! But maybe Jomty didn't want to upset the people
who don't like the idea of Johnny Foreigner watching the BBC when they're
not paying for it. You know how these UK TV Licence payers get on their high
horse about paying for stuff that others in Europe can watch for free.

Radio 4 coverage of Europe on LW is pretty decent. Why don't the British
taxpayers complain about that?

I regularly listened to Radio 5 on 909 from as far south as Rome,
albeit only in the evenings.

That's because it's MW, it's got a much longer range than LW. Mind you Rome is
pretty amazing. South of Lyons BBC World Service on 648KHz is pretty variable.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:57:24 +0100, Noel
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:22:56 GMT, Nigel Barker wrote:

And everybody knew that! But maybe Jomty didn't want to upset the people
who don't like the idea of Johnny Foreigner watching the BBC when they're
not paying for it. You know how these UK TV Licence payers get on their high
horse about paying for stuff that others in Europe can watch for free.

Radio 4 coverage of Europe on LW is pretty decent. Why don't the British
taxpayers complain about that?

I regularly listened to Radio 5 on 909 from as far south as Rome,
albeit only in the evenings.

That's because it's MW, it's got a much longer range than LW. Mind you Rome is
pretty amazing. South of Lyons BBC World Service on 648KHz is pretty variable.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:27:58 +0100, Noel
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:48:44 GMT, Nigel Barker wrote:

That's because it's MW, it's got a much longer range than LW.

That depends on what is in between the two locations. Over water, LW
fares better.

As most of Europe is land excepting the Swiss/Italian lakes. It's particularly
those bloody Alps that get in the way preventing reception further south

Thank goodness for crystal clear satellite nowadays:-) Except in cars:-( When
will Europe implement something similar to that neat XM satellite radio system
that they have in the US? All the Avis hire cars seem to have it now.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:27:58 +0100, Noel
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:48:44 GMT, Nigel Barker wrote:

That's because it's MW, it's got a much longer range than LW.

That depends on what is in between the two locations. Over water, LW
fares better.

As most of Europe is land excepting the Swiss/Italian lakes. It's particularly
those bloody Alps that get in the way preventing reception further south

Thank goodness for crystal clear satellite nowadays:-) Except in cars:-( When
will Europe implement something similar to that neat XM satellite radio system
that they have in the US? All the Avis hire cars seem to have it now.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

I think that all Expat living south of the paralel that cover the French
riviera are fuming by reading this NG.
Since BBC mouved to Astra2d, unless you have a dish at least 3mt or 4mt in
Greece we can not get the SKY package anymore, and the funny thing is that
BBC mouved to Astra2d because it cover only UK.
I'm a SKY subscriber and I'll cancel it at the end of the year, because my
2mt dish is non big enough and I have no space for a bigger one.
I understand the reason why BBC did this change, but, at least they could
have choosen a satellite that cover all EU.
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