Posted by Gav on December 3rd, 2005
By Daniel’s definition I’m a neo-con, but I don’t believe that tax cuts in themselves reduce the amount of tax revenue that can be spent on public services…
If you reduce taxes, very quickly people use their money more wisely than the government did and create wealth that they then are taxed upon. This self-fulfilling loop of fiscal benefit obviously has its limitations (as taxes get too low), but there’s no risk that the UK is anywhere near that!
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Posted by Gav on December 3rd, 2005
ITV is piloting a local TV station for Brighton and another for Hastings.
This is the start of a new era in television - use of the internet to reach an audience smaller than is economical or logistically possible using traditional transmission methods. And the omnipresent BBC is planning to do something similar soon.
A brief watch this afternoon has convinced me that this is the future. In the connected home where this can be streamed onto TVs in living rooms and where internet TV and Freeview/satellite can be switched between seamlessly, the very local focus of the channel will have many, many viewers.
The weather forecast is focused on the Brighton area with attention directed from Worthing to Newhaven along the coast and not as far north as Crawley. There are separate, concurrent channels showing News and Sport, Weather, What’s On, Classified Ads, locally-produced films and a couple of others I haven’t watched yet.
The channel’s not completely finished yet - you cannot upload content or classified ads yet - but the power to communicate via the televisual medium to a very local audience will be very, very useful.
ITV Local
I do believe it is long past the time we should have been able to watch BBC television on the internet - but I can see the licence fee problem for this availability… But commercial television (Channel Four and ITV) - they’ve got nothing to lose by having a new audience consuming their adverts! I look forward to further exploitation of the internet’s potential!
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Posted by Gav on December 3rd, 2005
Posted by Gav on December 3rd, 2005
Can you believe this is their response to my previous post?
Thank you for your e-mail.
Please mention your query in details so that we can help you.
Regards,
Priya Rajurkar
Customer Services Advisor
Or am I being unreasonable?
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