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RE: Our Schools Are Meant To - Day 140 - Daily Haiku
We are incredibly lucky here to have SBS TV (aren't we @quochuy) that plays a lot of foreign and independent films. It's always been a part of Australian life, well for us, since the 1980's and we appreciate it so much. It's funny you show a clip from Stratton. His movie show was on SBS. So we got to see a lot of great films and hear a lot about what was worth watching that way.
I can relate - I grew up with PBS, which was the Public Broadcasting System, which not only showed classic and foreign films and programming, but many stations also produced programming of their own.
Our local station in L.A. was KCET, and having ready access to a number of L.A.-based actors and film personnel, they produced some amazing teleplays over the years.
Unfortunately, being publicly funded, PBS has been subject to budget-slashing by the infantile powers that be, and as I don't get cable, I have no access to it any more.
Ugh... they were talking about cutting funding to put ABC and SBS and thete was a huge outcry against it.. thankgod they didn't. The Whitlam government in the 70s and early 80s really pushed for funding for broadcast and support of Australian culture and if we lost the fairly liberal mediums by which this culture and education was distributed we would be screwed. We have been lucky in terms of austerity... The US and UK hasn't faired so well at great cost to the people. I have heard of PBS of course. Is cable a subscriber thing???
Yes, cable is any one of a number of different providers.
I ditched it in 2006 because every time I heard our illustrious president's voice I wanted to throw something heavy through the screen. Less of a fire hazard without it. ;-)
Haha. We dont pay for tv here and watch it all via internet. All the TV channels are free to air and have apps so unless you are sport mad and need Foxtel or like Netflix you are good. We took down our terrestrial aerial as the magpies used it as a perch and shat all over the deck!!! Plus we use a VPN for some things. It's frustrating when rest of world gets a show and we have to wait. In a world globalised and connected in real time via internet it's unfair we should miss out. In 1860 it took two years for a letter to arrive from Europe. Sometimes it feels like that here lol
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Yeah, I tend to watch a lot via internet as well.
And we do have Netflix, though we're trialing DirecTV, so if that works out we won't need Netflix any more.