On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 13:57:05, Mike <
mjb@signal11.invalid> wrote (my
responses usually follow points raised):
In article <sjedou$c0p$1@dont-email.me>,
Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Bring back the test card and its associated music.
Nah, you wait forever for her to get on and make the next move
in the Noughts and Crosses. That's *too slow* TV!
I remember some years ago someone pointing out that - then, and I don't
_think_ anyone will have passed it even now, even though the test card
is rarely seen these days - that Carole Hersee had clocked up more hours
of airtime than any possible competitor, by a factor of several.
The ITV "unwind" strand seem to vary in content, the one I saw
was "seaside view slow-tv" shots. But others have been
computer-generated abstract graphics, a sunrise in real time,
all sorts of stuff could show up there.
(Where do I see this "unwind" strand?)
It's better than some gambling-scam-competition fill-in content :)
I'd like to think the gambling industry is in some sort of last-chance
saloon, like the tobacco-advertising companies were towards the end of
their era - they became quite surreal (anyone remember the Benson &
Hedges ones)? Sadly, I fear nobody now has the power to do the same to
the gambling industry as happened to tobacco, as it has too much money
(and thus influence).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)
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