Name That Tune

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

alan_m explained on 05/07/2020 :

It really was, I watched a few minutes of it..

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Bob Eager was thinking very hard :

I've just discovered another interesting channel - CCXTV 23 on Freeview. They show a wide mix of old TV series, general interest and specialised interests and the occasional film. I cannot seem to find out who or how they are financed.

[tim...]

"Harry Bloomfield"; "Esq." [e-mail]> wrote in message news:rdt3q4$vtn$ [e-mail]...

let's see if I survive longer

I got fed up with DC5, Catch Us If You Can, after 20 minutes and that rated

5.8

It was just so formulaic, and for some reason the music didn't compensate

Every Day's a Holiday's a bit more watchable, but there the music does help a lot, even though the story's equally soppy

[michael adams]

To restate to the bit you snipped...

" They occasionally broadcast showcase compilations on BBC4 such as say "Photography on the BBC" or "Architecture on the BBC" comprising clips from various documentaries they've made down the years. To some people at least its clear that these original documentaries

Are you saying that while they were able to use clips for these compilations they wouldn't necessarily have been able to use the entire documaentaries ?

Only for programmes whose rights they sold to other broadcasters. The market for most of this stuff is small enough in the UK as it is, I can't imagine any English language braodacaster from abroad falling over themselves to buy up the rights at any time.

And little of any of this suff includes music which would attract prohibitive roaylty payments.

Stuff like drama which *is" sold abroad is widely available on DVD etc. THis material simply isn't. I quoted Jonathan Meades as an example. On his own website he commends a fan who's downloaded a lot of his suff onto Vimeo. That's how ridiculous the situation is. Watching 25 year old home recorded VHS tapes of his stuff even in LP mode with snow at the bottom offers better quality TV than most of the current BBC4 Dross. And all to pay Yentob's pension.

michael adams

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[michael adams]

Whatever format they are, they still need to be converted into a digital stream in order to be broadcast.

So there's the cost of that. Then there's the cost of hiring the slot on the transmitter 24/7 365 days a year. Plus presumably the ongoing cost of a broadcasting licence. None of which can come cheap.

I'm sorry. While this film buff and his daughter and a friend may be the public face of this channel - and indeed its exactly what you'd expect them to produce - IMO its pretty obvious the actual backing must be coming from somewhere else

michael adams

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[Dave Plowman (News)]

Of course. Lots of cases where you can show a snippet of something but not the entire thing.

The BBC - or any other broadcaster - rarely owns all the rights to anything. After a given time they might have to re-negotiate terms with artists, musicians, writers etc.

You may well have a different idea as to what is viable to repeat than others.

[tim...]

ITYF that you are wrong

HTH

tim

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

michael adams formulated the question :

Many of the more commercially run channels seem to have not that many advertisers supporting them, lots of the same ads repeated at every advertising break.

[Bob Eager]

Adams probably thinks Soros is behind them.

[michael adams]

Films are always bought as part of a package from places like the BBC and Fremantle. A single package can cost ?200,000 or more.

Whilst the technical work is carried out by specialists, everything else is done by them in-house.

HTH

michael adams

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" I have less income now than the minimum wage by a huge margin. So I use my time to save money. I cook, do DIY, sew, mend, repair and in general live the way my postwar parents taught me, and their Depression era parents taught them. On a shoestring." The Natural Philosopher

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Odd the way the capitalist system Turnip so loves has failed him?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Turnip has just confirmed he lives firmly in the last century. Absolutely nothing is shown from film or spliced in these days. And adverts never were spliced into a film anyway.

[alan_m]

Out of interest I recorded it The plot was from an idea put forward by Freddie and the Dreamers. I'm surprised it got a rating as high as 3.6 I watched 5 minutes, fast forwarded a bit and watched another two minutes- the latter 2 minutes were a lot worse than the first 5 minutes :)

[tim...]

I watched it, FF some of it

It wasn't any worse than some of the more farcical Dad's Army episodes

IMHO

tim

[alan_m]

But Dad's Army episodes were only 25 minutes :)

Talking pictures have had some films with Clive Dunn

Did he ever play a character that wasn't identical to Lance Corporal Jones ?