quoted 6 lines Good grief; I just (like two seconds ago) heard 'to cure a weakling>> Good grief; I just (like two seconds ago) heard 'to cure a weakling
>> child' on a 30-ish second advert on UK's Channel 5 for Orange
>> telecom/telephones/whatever.
>
>Err, pardon my naivety, but I thought there were only 4 channels in the
>uk?
The fifth channel has only recently (a couple of months now I think)
started broadcasting. So far its programming has been very, *very*, poor
- it sells itself on a "what the people want" sort of line and has fixed
times for certain types of broadcasting (film at 2100hrs; comedy at
2300hrs; sport for 5 and a half hours a night from midnight [even though
they don't have the rights to much actual sport bar baseball...]).
Viewing figures indicate that the maximum audience they've had so far is
around 1.7 million which, for a terrestrial channel, is not so good (even
the cookery show "Ready, Steady, Cook" on one of the other four channels
can boast around 2.6 million viewers) :)
Rubyjune.