The show's on ITV is a more idiomatic final line. Historically, when I was young there was only BBC. Then there was ITV (Independent Television) with advertisements. That was the way it was for a long time. Now everybdy has seventy channels. I think six are BBC, the rest are other things. Of course the BBC includes the Radio also which is probably more important, particularly the sainted Radio 4, the only solid reason in my book for retaining the BBC at all. I just thought you'd like to know that.
We all pay £150 each for a Licence. This money goes direct to the BBC. These days it is easy to evade this, and the young mostly do, or so I gather. We oldies pay, kicking and screaming. Governments deny this is a tax, but it obviously is.
There is another reason for liking the BBC. He is an old guy called David Attenborough and he makes the best naure programmes ever in the whole wide world.
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