Second channel
Sir, —lt would be a tragedy if our second television channel should be handed over to “the real world” of the Chamber of Commerce and private enterprise. It is commercial greed and bad taste which has already secured private profit for a few above the rights of the biggest shareholders — the paying public — so that we have black and white repeats ad nauseam except in prime time, when new programmes clash deliberately on the two channels. Then we have another “real world,” profit-before-people protagonist, Mr Muldoon, who is surprised at the idea of “gratuitous programming for education.” In America, commercial television is truly competitive, limiting advertising, while federal control insists on increasing time for education and other public services. In this small country, lacking constitutional rights, we must choose either democratic control or dog-eat-dog private television with no licence fee. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. April 18, 1979.
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Press, 20 April 1979, Page 14
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