30-07-2018, 11:37
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With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
Virgin Media under Liberty Global
Sky potentially soon under Comcast ownership
Viacom owning Channel 5
Itv having so much speculation about being a potential takeover target by bigger media companies.
The rise of the streamers like Amazon and Netflix
With all this overseas involvement do we risk losing our identity and also risk seeing less and less UK content ?
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30-07-2018, 11:44
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
That is the globalist agenda.
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30-07-2018, 12:01
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
The Cable Companies in the UK (when they started in the 90s) were mainly owned by US companies (PacBell, Jones Cable, Nynex, Videotron, United Cable, Telewest, etc.).
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30-07-2018, 16:27
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
I don't think it's possible for us to lose our identity provided we bother to remember our history.
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30-07-2018, 16:57
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
I am sure we will get more foreign content (mostly inane USA series)
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30-07-2018, 17:07
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
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I don't think it's possible for us to lose our identity provided we bother to remember our history.
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Our society is changing though and a greater percentage year by year have a different history.
As we keep getting told we are now milticultural, my concept (and your) of history could well be totally different to my neighbours.
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30-07-2018, 22:33
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
It's the rewriting of our history to suit modern tastes that's the real danger..the tearing down of our historical heroes like Nelson or our literary heroes like Kipling to suit modern day values is to be resisted.Also much of our history is entwined with that of our multicultural society because of our colonisation of much of the globe and incessant wars across many centuries.
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11-08-2018, 18:04
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
I can actually see where OP is coming from. The UKTV mess was likely from an American perspective (afterall, all the replacement content minus The Weakest Link is from the other side of the Atlantic - who the $!@% wants to watch repeats of 'Allo 'Allo?). I think with globalisation comes a loss of culture, accents and phrases are merging... if you look at some young people today they're gaining language from places they've never seen the skies over.
British TV will always have it's place - the Yanks lap it up and it is undeniably a part of our history.
But, we need to be responsible for preserving our identity in the media and in the real world as otherwise it will be cast aside.
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11-08-2018, 18:13
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
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who the $!@% wants to watch repeats of 'Allo 'Allo?).
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Fortunately we don't all share the same tastes and I'm sure there are many, many people who do want to watch repeats of 'Allo 'Allo even if you don't.
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11-08-2018, 18:15
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
I'm pretty sure my identity is not in any danger.
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16-08-2018, 09:03
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
As a country we may be watching more US content than ever, but there's still a rise in home grown commissions and our own commissions are having a lot of success across the pond as well. So, no, I don't think we're losing our identity.
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16-08-2018, 10:46
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
Its not just cable though is it. Almost all big companies are now owned by even bigger companies overseas.
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16-08-2018, 12:59
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
If you ask me, we've already lost our identity. We will all be living under Sharia Law within a couple of decades if things continue to move in the multicultural direction we have taken.
There is a rapidly decreasing percentage of native British living in my area now, and if this is reflected in towns and cities all over the UK, it's too late now to regain it.
So we just have to accept it, I guess, and just hope that there will still be some British programmes still being made in years to come.
Otherwise, UKTV will be the only British option left! (Sorry, had to get that one in!).
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16-08-2018, 13:26
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
Wow
---------- Post added at 13:26 ---------- Previous post was at 13:24 ----------
I thought this was one of the few places left on the net where I didn't encounter offensive claptrap
Sadly I was wrong
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16-08-2018, 14:35
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Re: With the rise of the big players do we risk losing our identity ?
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If you ask me, we've already lost our identity. We will all be living under Sharia Law within a couple of decades if things continue to move in the multicultural direction we have taken.
There is a rapidly decreasing percentage of native British living in my area now, and if this is reflected in towns and cities all over the UK, it's too late now to regain it.
So we just have to accept it, I guess, and just hope that there will still be some British programmes still being made in years to come.
Otherwise, UKTV will be the only British option left! (Sorry, had to get that one in!).
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