But they are small minorities with deep pockets.
The unholy connection beween islamic terrosrism and seriously large middle eastern oil funded bank accounts is the elphant in the room., and drives more policy than anyone is prepared to admit.
The same money is propping up banks and governments.
After a decent programme, the credits are one can sit back, take stock of what has just been watched and generally wind oneself back into the real world. Of course if you're watching cack and just using the telly for wallpaper that doesn't really apply.
I'm suprised he can get it via the web in Australia a friend of mine say he can;t listen to things on the BBC site as it's blocked, but he may have meant catch up. I hope you're paying for this service unless of course it's now free I thopugh everyone that listened to the BBC radio had to have a TV license.
There are proxy servers that can be used by overseas listeners.
BBC policy seems to vary with the programme - having spent some time in France a couple of years ago I was surprised to find some podcasts available as normal and others "not available in this country". From a sample of about half a dozen it seemed those with significant music content were not available.
Oh, piss off. I paid through the fecking nose for the BBC for fecking years and it's about time I got a little bit back.
TV is blocked but radio isn't
Out of respect for the artistes and technical staff.
Bill
If you're putting that forward as a *good* reason, you'd need to answer the question of why it doesn't apply equally to other things in our lives. There's plenty of talent and creativity in this world that isn't named on its products.
As I understand it, the credits are only shown at the start or end of programs and movies because it's in the contracts of the people who are credited. They, in turn, use credits shown as a reference when applying for jobs, and producers and directors use them to look for people when they're considering making a new production.
Do you cut the flyleaf out of any books you buy?
So say we all.
No doubt that's true, but somehow the rest of the creative labour market gets along fine without inflicting their CVs on their customers. I've yet to hear a good reason why the moving picture industry should be regarded as a special case.
I get the feeling that if a production company wanted to omit credits - especially for junior members of the team - that would prompt a demand for more money in lieu. So the company is effectively underpaying their workers and giving them "free" advertising as compensation.
"Dave Plowman (News)" :
No.
Do you know what a flyleaf is?
They would also have to make the programme longer to fill the same slot. Which would cost a great deal more than credits.
Not necessarily. So many programs are stuffed with repeated snippets - especially after ad breaks (real or potential) - a bit more repeated footage at the end wouldn't make much difference to the cost, would it?
Indeed the amount of time spent in programs saying how sad they are to have run out of time to show something or other after wasting ages repeating footage is another source of extra footage, is it not? The stuff they couldn't fit in.
I'm sure these days the trade use IMDB to find out who did what on a film
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