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Originally Posted by towny
lol ... sadly not! But I'm interested to know how many people who claim 'never' to use the BBC actually never use BBC online, never listen to a BBC radio station, never watch any BBC TV content or, for that matter, don't take advantage of innovations like NICAM stereo, which IIRC BBC engineers were heavily involved in developing.
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Or Colour Television, Teletext, Digital Television transmission, RDS (Radio Data Service, used to display station names on radios) or DVDs (the BBC advised on the MPEG 2 standard).
One final thing. If you have ever watched TV, or listened to the radio (commercial or BBC) the chances are at least some of the personnel involved in what you are watching/listening to were trained by the BBC..