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Candid as the explanation was, it did not satisfy his customers. "It is really intolerable that power supplies should be inadequate," declared the Times, and other papers agreed. Tongue in cheek, BBC Television Commentator Cliff Michelmore appeared "on behalf of the electrical industry" to report that the blackouts were not "anything like the disgraceful failure of the electric supply in New York last week. Ours were on purpose." As if to prove him right, the Electricity Board's engineer pulled the plug again the next night...
...house, with a vase of flowers in the window, in a "council housing estate" (public housing project) several miles east of Manchester. Last month police turned up a suitcase containing a scrambled skein of recording tapes in the checkroom of a Manchester railway station, played the tapes at a BBC studio. On them were eerie sounds not unlike the voice of a terrified child...
...BBC? While these amounts are small compared with U.S. television revenues, the annual totals are rising into more substantial figures in some countries. Last year Italy sold $21 million worth of TV advertising. In West Germany, where eight regional networks run almost nothing but "slice-of-life" commercials portraying housewives at work, ad revenues rose from $33 million in 1960 to $94 million last year. Britain's ten-year-old ITV now airs more than $300 million in TV time for advertisers as varied as chocolate-maker Cadbury's and Procter & Gamble...
...channels to rearrange their schedules. The new rules: "Between 8 and 9 p.m. on weekdays, not more than two programs a week should be American." Not that he was anti-American, explained Lord Hill, a physician who won fame a generation ago by dispensing friendly medical advice over the BBC. It was just that "the authority recognizes that this is an appropriate time for popular family programs, and wishes to see it occupied by programs of high quality...
...Unfair," wailed an ITV executive, pointing out that the BBC, which is unaffected by the order, was already showing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and had just bought a police thriller called Z Cars. And, although some critics cheered the ruling, it seemed unlikely that ITV's replacements would be much of an improvement. Most British commercial TV shows are faithful adherents of the mindless U.S. format, and the audiences seem to like them that way. "At 8 p.m. I do not welcome heavy discussion programs, political investigations or information about how to have a baby," wrote Evening News Columnist...