On 5 Dec 2018 graham wrote:
>On 2018-12-05 GM wrote:
>> graham wrote:
>>> On 2018-12-04 itsjoannotjoann wrote:
>>>> On December 4, 2018 Jill McQuown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I saw this on PBS on 'America's Test Kitchen' a couple of days ago.
>>>>> They tasted shrimp burgers all up and down the North and South Carolina
>>>>> coast and settled on the shrimp burgers from the Shrimp Shack on Saint
>>>>> Helena Island (where I live).
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>>
>>>> Right now, for the month of December, my local PBS station is going through
>>>> it's tired and worn out membership drive. Most all their regular programming
>>>> goes out the window while they do the membership push. For about 30 days
>>>> I don't even turn on that channel as what they air is garbage, at least
>>>> it is to me.
>>>
>>> Same here! All that Irish clog dancing, screaming Irish sopranos and
>>> syrupy tenors, and pensioned-off rock bands from the 60s.
>>> Why the hell they think we want to watch that stuff again and again
>>> beats me!
>>
>> Because the demographic for public broadcasting (at leaat in the US) is 60++ ... thus the vapid Brit murder mysteries, cookery shows, armchair travelogues, etc....
>>
>> US public broadcasting should not get *one* penny of public funding, public broadcasting would thus be empowered to improve itself...or die in the process.
>>
>Then how would you improve Fox? No public money there and it is
>appallingly bad.

Um, you must have more than 100 other channels, oh dim bulb.