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Subject: "But US studios would never agree to it"

Author:
Lew

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Date Posted: 02:22:32 12/10/03 Wed
In reply to: Charles 's message, "Re: Cross Frontier Television" on 09:19:34 12/09/03 Tue

>Hi Guys who have replied. Thanks very much and to
>those who have read this thread and not replied may I
>ask that if you can add anything on this subject
>please make a posting as I want to make the strongest
>case I can in my submission. The more so as we have a
>little time on our side as Professor Miley's petition
>will not now be heard until sometime in January 2004
>and we owe it to him to add as much supporting
>arguement as we can and we need to make our numbers
>count by copying Roy Perry (see message).
>
>Personally I find it totally unreal that we can work
>anywhere in the EU, obtain reciprocal free medical
>aid, import and export without restriction but yet we
>cannot choose what TV we watch and if we try to we
>have to do it covertly! It's absolute nonsense and I
>personally object to having to resort to so-called
>"illegal" actions to do so.

One of the arguments put forward against the BBC not allowing people on the continent to have their programmes is the one that the US studios would never agree to their programmes being seen in English by a limited and known number of subscribers on the continent. This is evidently on the grounds that it would be impossible for them to sell the X Files to a French broadcaster if 1% of the population had already seen it in English.
In that case, what about BFBS? Here you have an organisation broadcasting US programmes (including the X Files) throughout Europe to a limited number of people in Germany, Cyprus, southern Serbia etc. I doubt that the fees they pay to the US studios are based on them broadcasting to 500 million viewers.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: "But US studios would never agree to it"	Charles	11:13:57 12/10/03 Wed
Re: "But US studios would never agree to it" -- Ken, 14:55:10 12/10/03 Wed