I'm watching Ascot on the BBC and it is sad to hear that Ascot like so muck before is leaving the BBC. The British Broadcasting Corporation, for most of my lifetime the mainstay of British Television, for many still the main stay of TV with maybe freeview. Yes I have Sky but many don't. The BBC live off the licence fee and most of us will complain if that goes up so how do the BBC compete, my view is they should not have to. I remember Grandstand, the boat race and so much more but now the BBC is being reduced to second or third rate, is that right? When we all have to pay a licence fee is it not right that we should expect our national broadcasting service to get preferential treatment to ensure it can provide coverage of major events? If it's right that the BBC should have to fight it out for contracts then should they not be given the chance to compete by allowing advertising? Maybe I am showing my age, maybe I am a man of times gone by, maybe its not that important, it just makes me sad.
**** Sky, **** Ascot, **** the Queen. Long live illegal feeds. The BBC either scrap the Licence Fee and use adverts or etc., they can't have both (unfair advantage, Monoploies and Mergers Commision). Keep the BBC as is, you need a bit of quality in your life and the News with canned laughter would just be wrong!
Smart arse, lol. OK then, there is a town, across the Clyde a bit like Gateshead is to Newcastle. They used to have a SPL side years ago & the late, great Davie Cooper played for them. Any ideas?
I'm not sure of that one Bill, but I'm hoping the clue to the answer is in the question, so I will say Clydebank
