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Re: Channel 4 opportunity
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:40 am
by John McKenna
MJMcCready wrote:Hard to remember what it was like to have so few options regarding home entertainment back then. Now we have 1000 channels of rubbish more or less.
Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth.
Re: Channel 4 opportunity
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:50 am
by Clive Blackburn
Bruce Springsteen put it very well in his 1992 song "57 channels and nothin' on".
At that time of course we could only dream of 57 channels in the UK, now we are inundated with them!
Re: Channel 4 opportunity
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:38 am
by Ian Kingston
Pink Floyd made a similar point in The Wall in 1979: 'Got thirteen channels of sh*t on the T.V. to choose from' ('Nobody Home').
Re: Channel 4 opportunity
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 2:47 pm
by MJMcCready
Always remember Channel 4's excellent coverage of the Short-Kasparov match, and Carol Voderman having a hard time with Garry in the beginning of the match at times.
Re: Channel 4 opportunity
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:35 pm
by Peter D Williams
Mike Truran wrote:Is that where you keep the tortoises?
No i live in the greenhouse.Tortoises live in the house
Re: Channel 4 opportunity
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 10:33 pm
by Jon Mahony
Sounds about as appealing as a junior chess summer camp run by Brian Ely
No matter how nice and normal the young lasses are, their words and actions will be twisted out of context in editing, until they all look like eccentric, neurotic, figures of fun, for the viewing pleasure of the entire UK.