more on BBC makes fun of FCC Puritism

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:39:54 +0000
From: Andrew Walkingshaw <andrew () lexical org uk>
Subject: Re: [IP] BBC makes fun of FCC Puritism
Sender: Andrew Walkingshaw <andreww () colon colondot net>
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:49:19AM -0500, Dave Farber wrote:
> Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:59:42 -0500
> From: Barry Ritholtz <ritholtz () optonline net>
> Subject: BBC makes fun of FCC Puritism
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> It seems some of the Brits are rather amused at the goings on recently at
> the FCC. One of the BBC channels has been running a very, very funny R
> rated advert.

Channel Four is definitely not part of the BBC, inspired though the advert
is. C4's somewhat odd governing structure and remit is at:

http://www.channel4.com/about_c4/information.html

- Andrew

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