Originally Posted by zaeon:
“Yet another channel wasted. What next another shopping channel? This is getting beyond a joke.”
Not wishing to play Devils Advocate, but this is the problem with the free market capitalist system we run in this country, as long as a broadcaster has the cash and a licence from Ofcom (operates on the same free market capitalist ideology), the multiplex operators cannot refuse their trade. And at the moment, who are flush with cash? The shopping and babe channels.
Only way to solve it is to bring in a completely new and fresh political party who don't believe on the same free market capitalist values and who will introduce quotas and rules as to which channels can broadcast. Not likely to happen in reality imho.