Posted on 06/25/2005 10:35:31 PM PDT by SmithL
"I don't give rat*** about PBS I think they are bia in lib agenda only good thing about PBS is animal shows Masterpiece theatre and Brit comedies"
And a lot of that programming (especially the BritComs) are available on DVD and you do not have to endure pledge drive pleas.
I just happen to flip by Aaron Brown's show last night and caught Bill Moyers on with him.
That man is E V I L.
All I could think of was there are no two people on earth that love to hear their own voices more than those two.
The toys at Toys R Us, etc. are licensed from the shows. They get a royalty for each toy sold, but it's not huge money compared to say, Pokemon, where the show supports the licensed product and brings in advertising revenues.
Bill Moyers is a self-aggrandising, pompous a$$hat. He has been living on the Welfare Broadcasting Network (he is getting a handout from our taxes) and couldn't hack it in the real world. He is typical of the hard left: arrogant jackass who wants socialism for eveyone BUT him and his elite pals.
I thought he retired....
I worked with a guy from Scotland for a while and his sister was with "Lionheart TV" which is the source for BBC programming in America. I remember he told me that she used to fly back and forth from the UK via the Concord. She wasn't even all that high on the pecking order. At 8K per ticket one way, it was a waste.
I'm willing to contribute to any candidate that wants to eliminate funding.
BROWN: Is there a moment, when you became two organized conservative groups? Because I'm not sure it's true of people who are conservative politically necessarily, but organized conservative groups essentially journalistic Satan?
BILL MOYERS, JOURNALIST: There must be. Because suddenly I did sprout horn. They saw it. I didn't see it. I think it's because they didn't -- they weren't hearing what they wanted to hear from somebody who knows them very well. I tracked the conservatives for 40 years. I was in the Johnson campaign against Goldwater. I watched them grow. I did many documentaries about them when they emerged into power. I was the -- I offered Ronald Reagan the first hour on public broadcasting before he was a presidential candidate. I know these guys, and I don't buy their party line, and I don't spout their party line. And so there was a point at which they didn't like -- they weren't hearing what they wanted to hear, and I became their bad boy.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/24/asb.01.html
That has nor prevented him from pontificating and making "guest appearances" on NPR and PBS programmes.
OH WOW they are OH MAn that is cool
Oh, sorry. I don't watch much TV. Only PBS show I liked, aside from some of the movies, was Charlie Rose.
Harrison was named to the post Thursday, the same day that the House voted to rescind proposed cuts of $100 million to the corporation's budget for next year.
Now maybe it's the cynic in me, but could these two actions be tied together? And if that's true does the Republican party now just differentiate itself by offering a more conservative version of socialism?
The BBC website has a store where you can purchase danged near every show they have aired. I am considering starting a collection of "Are You Being Served?" and "Allo, Allo." Of course, I will have to make room in the budget for the beginnings of a "Dr. Who" collection. Circuit City and Best Buy also offer many BritComs online or in the stores.
Because they don't have the ratings to do so. Plus no one with a brain gives a shit about them anyway.
There was a day when I would argue with you about that.......but now I know better, bill. :-)
Yeah, yeah, yeah....so did Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and all those other leftists. They're convinced that we're too stupid to notice it. Brokaw used to get all annoyed and defensive when he was faced with that question.
We're on to you, lefties. Drop the arrogance and look at the reality.
So you all are basically saying that if the Bird and the Dog didn't have PBS, they wouldn't be popular?
Well, then, if that's the case, why doesn't PBS own the toys and pay that $46 million from that?
An important thing to remember is the CPB is not the only government funds going to PBS. There are the money from National Science Foundate, Endowment for the Arts, Department of Education, Department of Energy, the US Army. That is why at the end they mention the CPB, but then list other sources.
Without the government money, they would belly up in week.
OH MAN thanks for the info I wonder if A&E has it too I do get Biography channel some of A&E programming came that channel I would'nt mind scoring Old school Masterpiece theatre like Upstair downstair and I Claudis that when Masterpiece theatre had Alstair Cooke back in da day LOL!
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