The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67193 Message #1121656
Posted By: Steve Parkes
23-Feb-04 - 06:45 AM
Thread Name: A new definition of Folk?
Subject: RE: A new definition of Folk?
Well, I've never heard of Ian Carr on this side of the pond. I didn't even know there was folk on the telly -- although I think I might have heard something along those lines being on BBC 3 TV a while ago, now I think about it. Of course, here in Milton Keynes we have the Oldest British Cable TV Network In The World: you have to put a shilling in the meter and throw a six to start. And since the council sold it off to NTL we have to pay for what everyone else gets for free; the off-air signal is crap and Channel Five is non-existent (so it's not all bad news), and we might just get digital freeview or not (I'm not wasting money on an aerial and a box to find we can't), and we can't get broadband 'cos the cable's not up to it, and we can't get ASDL becase BT's not up to it. None of this stops NTL and BT telling us about all the goodies they could sell us if we moved somewhere ese.