[BITList] corrected pbs

[CT's]

> yo mike
>
> NPR (national public radio) and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service for TV) 
> are
> regarded as a liberal voice by the republicans (like bush, cheney, 
> limbaugh,
> coulter, beck), so I expect both to be very supportive of obama's efforts 
> to
> get health care for all americans. Some NPR stations relay the BBC radio
> news as does PBS on TV. But I can get BBC video programs and BBC radio
> programs via the internet anytime.
>
> Not very long ago I was listening to Paul Temple and the Missing 
> Spectacles
> from BBC on-line radio - a francis durbridge whodunnit from the 1940/50's
> (remember the intro music? - "coronation scot" by vivian ellis) - 
> nostalgic
> indeed.
>
> I don't watch PBS very often and I generally only listen to the radio when 
> I
> am driving. npr only has news on from abt 0600 to 0900 and 1600 to 1800
> (the rest of the time it is classical music and other cultural stuff)- but
> these are not times I usually drive, so I don't listen to it very often.
>
> I do listen to npr on a saturday morning at 0900 for "Car Talk" by the
> tappet brothers - click and clack (google that and you can hear them on
> their site). people call in about car problems and click and clack (they
> really are brothers) try to answer them in a very amusing way. The two
> brothers are long-time car mechanics. Ray Magliozzi has a bachelor of
> science degree in humanities and science from MIT, while Tom has a 
> bachelor
> of science degree in economics from MIT and an MBA and DBA from the Boston
> University Graduate School of Management.     this is followed by a very
> funny quiz program - "wait, wait don't tell me".
>
> for many years npr here broadcast the bbc quiz program "my word" - I loved
> it.     it is not on now - I guess every one has passed on (dennis norden,
> frank muir, ann scott-james and antonio fraser, etc).
>
> both npr and pbs are funded by grants from the government (much to red
> necks, fat white bastards and republicans chagrin), various endowments and
> donations from listeners/viewers. they generally don't have masses of
> commercials like the other stations here. some of the more well-heeled
> stations don't have any commercials - they have enough funding from local
> donations not to need the revenue from the broadcasting of commercials.
>
> pbs plays a lot of bbc stuff - some very strange plays!
>
> and yes, both have local fund drives to help pay for the services.
>
> you said you listened to pbs when you were at sea - perhaps it was 
> national
> public radio as pbs is only tv as far as I am aware.
>
> ct
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Michael Feltham" <mj.feltham at madasafish.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:03 PM
> To: "BIT List" <BITList at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>
> Subject: [BITList] NHS & US Equivalent ?
>
>> Colin,
>>
>> What is the Public Broadcasting Stations saying about this ?  When I
>> was at Sea I used to listen to the PBS for factual news, they also
>> relayed a lot of BBC stuff.  I also remembered that you were asked to
>> pay to keep the stations going.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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