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Back then, viewers had only four channels to choose from and no cable, and all the channels were required to include some socially redeeming content: BBC1, home of the BBC's most popular output; the more esoteric BBC2; the commercial network ITV; and Channel??4, then only four years old and set up to break the duopoly...
...existence by attracting mass audiences, which, as Fox Television has proved, tend to gather at the bottom of the taste pyramid. Consider the huge popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel??4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants...
...passengers, an average of 172 per day (among them: Chilean Ambassador Don Carlos Davila, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, a baby wildcat, presidents of seven corporations, two infants in arms). Proudly, officials of the company compared that with the latest available average of all air lines operating across the English Channel??? 118 per day. Traffic for the week was 65% of capacity...
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