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Date Fri, 6 Aug 1999 112215 +0100

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Plans for the new digital TV tax and BBC subsidy have now been 

formalised and it looks like users will have to pay £24 for the 

privilege of owning a digital TV or box. The money will presumably be 

used to pay the BBC to set up lots of committees, employ legions of 

secretaries and clerks, and have lots of expensive lunches. Any dosh 

left over will be parcelled up and sent out to their old-school chums 

and former employees to produce half-arsed sit-coms for digitised 

suburban consumption.


Back to the real world, Sky and On are competing for the commercial 

digital TV space to the ultimate benefit of the consumer, who is already 

able to get free hardware (subsidised by content charges, of course). 

Unfortunately for Sky and On (and the consumer), neither operator gets 

any bung from the £24 which will act as a disincentive to digital 

uptake, an unfair tax on both operators, and a big bonus to Auntie's 

time servers.


The BBC (god bless their cotton socks) is a fine British institution, 

one of the few things us Brits can still boast about, has done some good 

stuff in the past, helped us to win two world wars, set the standard for 

quality TV worldwide (though still surpassed by the likes of Granada who 

did it without government hand-outs), and you have to love them to bits, 

etc., etc.


But, like the Royal Family, the BBC has had it's day, is a dying 

institution, and should be put out of its misery pronto. So let's have a 

big fanfare and three cheers for these two great British institutions, 

stuff them, and put them in a museum dedicated to the 20th Century.


Oh, and while we are at it - no tax on digital TV!


Ray Taylor

Campaign for a brave new century, not just a repeat of the current 

disastrous one

+44 181 249 6313 

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