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Postby DHLawrence » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:36 pm

Hmm, I'd forgotten about Channel 4. Yeah, it does sound a bit like CBC.

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Postby Blue Blur » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:48 pm

Ugh, I hate that Channel One. Those people are the worst news anchors ever.
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Postby Muninn » Sat Dec 10, 2005 10:38 am

<!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Dec 8 2005, 03:39 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Dec 8 2005, 03:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> ...namely Raven. Both of which are on every weekday. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Is that the gameshow where kids tackle obstacles and puzzles, winning rings. They had that on BBC Prime and I loved it because the sets were well designed and the games interesting.<br><br>BBC Prime is an international version of the BBC that has a lot of it's shows, dramas, comedies, gameshows, children's, documentaries, educational programmes and so forth. I watch it regularly along with BBC World, which is mostly a 24 hour news channel. I don't pick up many other foreign channels, just a few like MTV or CNN but I never watch those.

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Postby Gizensha » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:05 pm

<!--QuoteBegin-Jack Ravendawn+Dec 10 2005, 10:38 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Jack Ravendawn @ Dec 10 2005, 10:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Dec 8 2005, 03:39 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Dec 8 2005, 03:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> ...namely Raven. Both of which are on every weekday. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Is that the gameshow where kids tackle obstacles and puzzles, winning rings. They had that on BBC Prime and I loved it because the sets were well designed and the games interesting.<br><br>BBC Prime is an international version of the BBC that has a lot of it's shows, dramas, comedies, gameshows, children's, documentaries, educational programmes and so forth. I watch it regularly along with BBC World, which is mostly a 24 hour news channel. I don't pick up many other foreign channels, just a few like MTV or CNN but I never watch those. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> That sounds like it's the one. Just to confirm - www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Raven Best kids gameshow since <a href='http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Knightmare' target='_blank'>Knightmare</a>. (or alternatively www.knightmare.com for info on that)<br><br>Thought bbc prime was the military services acting outside of UK borders BBC channel, though...
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:29 pm

<!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Dec 9 2005, 10:32 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Dec 9 2005, 10:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Actually, the BBC is publicly funded to provide public service broadcast, not government owned. Very important distinction there.<br><br>Out of the five terrestrial (that is, analogue channels delivered via the arial) channels, two are bbc, and are publicly owned channels, one is ITV, which is commercial. One is channel 5, which is commercial, and one is Channel 4 which... While publicly owned is commercial (iirc with Channel 4)<br><br>There are also the digital channels, the sky channels, the cable channels. Quite a few of which overlap. Some of the digital channels are non-subscription and transmitted via the arial, but you need a digibox in order to recieve them. Of these free digital channels... 8 are BBC (including the two regular BBC channels), 4 are ITV (including the one...), 2 are Channel 4 (including the one) and one is channel 5 (including the one) there are other channels which were originally sky channels until Freeview came about as well.<br><br>As for ITV - it was merged a few years ago into a unified ITV. Except for making programs, Granada, Yorkshire, LWT, Thames, etc no longer exist as far as I'm aware. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>So, let me see if I have this right. There are five broadcast networks, two of which are BBC (BBC-1 and BBC-2), one is ITV, and the other two just have numbers for names, right? But if what Richard said is true, those numbers would have to have nothing to do with what number you actually punch in on the remote, correct? And then there are free HDTV stations that are owned by the same five networks but there are more of them? And then the rest is cable/satellite? Am I even close? This is very confusing (though I doubt it would be any easier to explain the American TV system to you.)

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Postby Dr. Doog » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:51 pm

The American way is we have the stations like ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS, and others that have local stations. Then we have allllllllllllllllllllllllll the rest you get have to be purchased through a satellite or cable TV company. those go up to like... 90, and then there are more sets of channels that start at 100, 200, 300, and what not but I don't think they go all the way to 199, 299, 399, and what not. But I wouldn't know, since I have almost standard cable.
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Postby Gizensha » Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:59 pm

<!--QuoteBegin-Octan+Dec 10 2005, 07:29 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Octan @ Dec 10 2005, 07:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Dec 9 2005, 10:32 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Dec 9 2005, 10:32 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Actually, the BBC is publicly funded to provide public service broadcast, not government owned. Very important distinction there.<br><br>Out of the five terrestrial (that is, analogue channels delivered via the arial) channels, two are bbc, and are publicly owned channels, one is ITV, which is commercial. One is channel 5, which is commercial, and one is Channel 4 which... While publicly owned is commercial (iirc with Channel 4)<br><br>There are also the digital channels, the sky channels, the cable channels. Quite a few of which overlap. Some of the digital channels are non-subscription and transmitted via the arial, but you need a digibox in order to recieve them. Of these free digital channels... 8 are BBC (including the two regular BBC channels), 4 are ITV (including the one...), 2 are Channel 4 (including the one) and one is channel 5 (including the one) there are other channels which were originally sky channels until Freeview came about as well.<br><br>As for ITV - it was merged a few years ago into a unified ITV. Except for making programs, Granada, Yorkshire, LWT, Thames, etc no longer exist as far as I'm aware. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>So, let me see if I have this right. There are five broadcast networks, two of which are BBC (BBC-1 and BBC-2), one is ITV, and the other two just have numbers for names, right? But if what Richard said is true, those numbers would have to have nothing to do with what number you actually punch in on the remote, correct? And then there are free HDTV stations that are owned by the same five networks but there are more of them? And then the rest is cable/satellite? Am I even close? This is very confusing (though I doubt it would be any easier to explain the American TV system to you.) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Five broadcast networks, correct.<br><br>Two are BBC (BBC1, BBC2), correct.<br><br>One is ITV, correct.<br><br>One is Channel 4, one is Five. They are called that. Five used to be called Channel 5 but decided to change it's name at some point. So, almost right.<br><br>In Britain (I'm in the UK, Richard is in Canada), these numbers are the numbers you press on the remote. BBC1 and BBC2 are 1 and 2 respectively, ITV is 3, Channel 4 and Five are 4 and 5 respectively.<br><br>The rest is wrong.<br><br>Digital channels aren't HDTV channels. There are no current HDTV services in the UK. Sky launch theirs in 2006, the BBC launch there free one in... Well, no-one's sure when but I keep hearing 2007.<br><br>All of the free digital channels are available via Freeview (arial) or sky digital (sky) or, presumably cabel. Well, that's the theory anyway. Some are available via freeview only, others via sky digital only. Six are owned by the BBC (though I think two of those aren't digital only, but not via the arial), three are owned by ITV, two are owned by Channel 4. Channel 5 own none of them. There are others that offer freeview channels, though.<br><br>Everything else is via sky and cabel.
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Postby norsenerd » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:58 pm

PBS has plenty of comercials in it. (this is American TV)
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Postby Gizensha » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:19 pm

<!--QuoteBegin-norsenerd+Dec 12 2005, 09:58 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (norsenerd @ Dec 12 2005, 09:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> PBS has plenty of comercials in it. (this is American TV) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Trailers and "Please donate money to us now" don't class as commercials.
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Postby DHLawrence » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:11 am

Actually, we're starting to get real commericals on PBS over here. Granted, they're between shows and not during shows, but they're there.

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Postby Richard K Niner » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:14 am

And its a question of "Are they on the original Buffalo-based broadcast, or did Rogers add them?"
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Postby norsenerd » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:44 am

<!--QuoteBegin-Gizensha+Dec 12 2005, 06:19 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Gizensha @ Dec 12 2005, 06:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-norsenerd+Dec 12 2005, 09:58 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (norsenerd @ Dec 12 2005, 09:58 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> PBS has plenty of comercials in it.  (this is American TV) <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Trailers and "Please donate money to us now" don't class as commercials. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> If you watch PBS they realy are comercials. Even if they dont; qualify they are in every aspect comericials.
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