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:: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 ::

This makes my blood boil. Spot the ulterior motive:

“BBC ought to be forced to sell its most successful programmes... to its commercial rivals, who would screen all future episodes instead. The money raised by such sales should then be ploughed into experimental programming... it would not be such a disaster if the BBC were eventually to become a marginal broadcaster.”
“The BBC should be banned from buying any foreign-made material. This would prevent the BBC from pushing up the price of American sitcoms, Hollywood movies and Australian soap operas, the staples of many commercial channels. I really cannot see why public money is being diverted to those poor struggling Hollywood studios"
Tony Ball, chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting (some quotes are paraphrases from the article rather than direct quotes from Ball, but you get the idea)

:: Dan 26.8.03 [Arc]    ::
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