23February
SKY Broadcasting is preparing to remove its channels from basic cable. SKY, which takes its name from its original target broadcast area - the area of west London approximately bounded by Staines, Kingston, and Yeading - airs some very populist, though unpopular, nonsense, including a continuous stream of heads talking about football, a channel of cheap imported tat, and the UK's longest running continuous comedy channel, which recently marked 18 years of pretending to report the news. From next Thursday, the UK's six million cable viewers will be spared such tedious dross as Eamonn Holmes's Good Morning Isleworth
, gold-Blue Peter badge-holder Simon Thomas on Your Isthmian League (Division II) Matches Tonight
, or the imported nonsense Lost Plot
.
If the Murdoch-owned purveyor of crap goes off air, it will be interesting to see who loses out; we reckon that losing the six million cable viewers will shoot the morally bankrupt SKY below the waterline, which must be A Good Thing. We rather hope that Flextech, the programme-making arm of The Cable Corp., will make some good programmes of its own.
