My New Year Resolution - Goodbye Television

In article ,
Alan wrote:
If you listen to Radio 4 you will soon find that everything is repeated
many times each week and the day-time programs rival the worst that can
be found on terrestrial TV.

Are there two R4s?

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*Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

Dave Plowman London SW
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Pyriform wrote:
Steven Fletcher wrote:

Just to let you all know that I have just given away my only
remaining TV and digibox. Tv is now such a waste of time, I have
decided not to own one anymore. I'm sure life will be much better
without one in the house. I feel better aleady! I suggest you all
do the same, as Bristish TV is now an insult to the Great British
people. Its time to get your life back. Do it today. Television in
the UK has lost its way. All the broadcasters have no idea what
entertainment is anymore.....


I see. Do please remind us all of the Golden Age, before TV lost its
way.

The rest of us would do well to remember the wise words of Homer
Simpson:

"Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover."

"When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom
of a bottle, they're on TV!"

Do you have so little self-control that you are unable to stop yourself
watching crap? Perhaps you are like an alcoholic, and total abstinence
is the only answer. I pity you. Fortunately, I possess the ability to
select my viewing, as well as technology which ensures I can watch my
choices at a time convenient to me.



That's a reasonable point, although I seem to regret watching to the end
certain choices I have made.

I'm not far from the point of letting TV go, and just watching DVDs as
and when.

Rob

Steven Fletcher wrote:
Hi,

Just to let you all know that I have just given away my only remaining TV
and digibox. Tv is now such a waste of time, I have decided not to own one
anymore. I'm sure life will be much better without one in the house. I
feel better aleady! I suggest you all do the same, as Bristish TV is now an
insult to the Great British people. Its time to get your life back. Do it
today. Television in the UK has lost its way. All the broadcasters have no
idea what entertainment is anymore.....

Goodbye TV, I won't misss you, infact my life will be far better without the
constant irritation in the corner of the room.

Happy New Year to all....



Good for you - a friend took the plunge a couple of years ago. Being a
sport nut he spent hours watching ludicrous 'competitive' drivel and
skewed old news.

He has no regrets, but becomes amusingly obsessive with the remote
control on ours when he visits ;-)

Rob

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote
In article ,
Alan wrote:
If you listen to Radio 4 you will soon find that everything is repeated
many times each week and the day-time programs rival the worst that can
be found on terrestrial TV.

Are there two R4s?


No.

Radio 4 is not the quality channel that many people believe it to be.
Have you actually listened to some of the day-time content or checked
the schedules to see how many times a program is repeated within the
week?

I bet that if they cancelled that poorly written and patronising soap
opera called the Archers (repeated 3 times each week) you would be the
first to complain

It does have some highlights such as the rolling news programs which are
spoilt by the inclusion of the ' God slot sermons' and fake and
pointless discussions stage managed so that there is always a pro and
anti participant.

Some of the best of the 6:30pm comedy can be quite good but remember
some of these programs failed miserably when transferred to TV.

Familiarity with a program content and popularity with the Radio 4
audience doesn't make it quality broadcasting - it just puts in the
same category as Big Brother on Ch4.

IMO, Radio 4 has the same ratio of quality to crap as most of the main
terrestrial TV channels. This doesn't mean that it is a bad radio
station - but it is not worth the 'quality' tag often attributed to it.

--
Alan
news2005 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:46:49 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Pyriform wrote:
I see. Do please remind us all of the Golden Age, before TV lost its
way.

You can see most of it on FreeView - repeated endlessly. ;-)

I think the point is when asked about the 'golden age' people offer a list
of shows from 20-30 years. That list when looked at in perspective of the
schedule from then indicated there must have been a fair amount of dross
at the same time.

"Alan" wrote in message
...
snip

It does have some highlights such as the rolling news programs
which are
spoilt by the inclusion of the ' God slot sermons' and fake and

Spoilt for you perhaps, a useful time to put the kettle on for me,
but to some it's one of the programme highlights - how ever much 'we'
might dislike the slot.

pointless discussions stage managed so that there is always a pro
and
anti participant.

Well it's rather pointless to have a discussion were everyone agrees!


Some of the best of the 6:30pm comedy can be quite good but
remember
some of these programs failed miserably when transferred to TV.
snip

Much of the new style of comedy should not be on 'Auntie', let alone
R4, in my opinion - total crap, I would prefer yet another repeat of
'Round the Horn'...

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Pyriform wrote:
I see. Do please remind us all of the Golden Age, before TV lost
its
way.

You can see most of it on FreeView - repeated endlessly. ;-)


Hmm, at times BBC1 and ITV1 seems to be the 'alternate' channels
now...

"Major ChrisB" wrote in message
.. .

"Steven Fletcher" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Just to let you all know that I have just given away my only
remaining TV
and digibox. Tv is now such a waste of time, I have decided not
to own
one
anymore. I'm sure life will be much better without one in the
house. I
feel better aleady! I suggest you all do the same, as Bristish
TV is now
an
insult to the Great British people. Its time to get your life
back. Do
it
today. Television in the UK has lost its way. All the
broadcasters have
no
idea what entertainment is anymore.....

Goodbye TV, I won't misss you, infact my life will be far better
without
the
constant irritation in the corner of the room.


I rarely watch british shows. I watched the BBC series Egypt
recently, I
watched Teachers untill it got **** and I watched space cadets.
The only
other thing I have planned to watch is The Worlds Strongest Man
starting
tommorrow but it's now on 5 instead of the BBC so who knows how
that will
go...at least the great Mr Inverdale is still presenting.

snip

I do, however, watch about 6 to 8 hours of TV a day, but its almost
always
downloaded from newsgroups and it's almost always american shows.


So you only like watching the crap programmes then, no wonder you
don't have time for 'British shows', as you call them!..

"Rob" wrote in message
...
snip
Good for you - a friend took the plunge a couple of years ago.
Being a
sport nut he spent hours watching ludicrous 'competitive' drivel
and
skewed old news.

He has no regrets, but becomes amusingly obsessive with the remote
control on ours when he visits ;-)


Have you noticed him spending more time visiting you than he does
living in his own home?...

"steve" wrote in message
news
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:46:49 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Pyriform wrote:
I see. Do please remind us all of the Golden Age, before TV lost
its
way.

You can see most of it on FreeView - repeated endlessly. ;-)

I think the point is when asked about the 'golden age' people offer
a list
of shows from 20-30 years. That list when looked at in perspective
of the
schedule from then indicated there must have been a fair amount of
dross
at the same time.


Not really, remember that TV programmes aimed at adults (opposed to
kids or schools) started at about 6pm and closed-down at around
midnight, the percentage of dross *was* relatively low.