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Quote Originally Posted by JB
Are those shows on cable? We can get any shows from any country with cable or dish but very few British shows on the regular TV channels.
In St Pete we mostly have cable. Very few households stick to terristrial. It's so boring and low quality. With cable you get all terristrial + tons more. And there's bags and bags of British programming on every day. To us, Double Petersburgers, cable is regular. Every district has literally dozens if not hundreds of cable operators and TV studios (that's in addition to a wide selection of terristrial and satellite channels that you get on cable), in some districts I believe they even have a bunch of TV channels that broadcast entertaining images for your pets. My block of flats is huge enough to have a small CCTV studio of its own with a lot of amateur yet quite high quality children and DIY programming. Also, we have our own interactive message boards based on teletext. I have two video on demand systems in my apartment- one at the level of the district cable operator and one inhouse system, run by the above mentioned CCTV studio. The latter offers an excellent choice of old Formula 1 videos.
Wow you are very luck in respect of having access to so many channels, In England we only have access to English speaking channels, any other channels and they are mainly Hindi or Gujarati are premium channels so you have to pay more . It is very difficult for anyone to learn a foregin lanugage by listening to or even watch any foregin lanugage channels unnless you buy extra equipment and even then it is not reliable

Everything is set up England to extract more money out of people we pay more for most things than other countries and that includes TV, not only do we have to pay for a licence for the BBC channels which is none negotiable there are other main commercial channels but they are subsidised by advertisments all the time, any other channels like "Sky" which is a company run by Rupert Murdoch and beams channels in from mainly the U.S.A You have to subscribe to the more channels you have the more it costs. We do have cable operators but they show the same channels that Sky do so there isnt a much difference and a lot of the channels that are shown are shopping channels which no one is realy intersted in.



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