In message <47930608$0$15893$edfadb0f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mik Svellov
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> writes
>The answer is - as always - pretty simple: it doesn't attract enough
>viewers!
Yes, but.
The but is that back when we had three television channels, the
audiences
were high enough for one of those channels, admittedly the minority one.
Today we have lots of channels, and a viable audience is much smaller.
And chess is not expensive. So in theory it could be possible.
The problem is I think that if it were stuck in the middle of programmes
that were a complete mismatch to it, it wouldn't get found. And a whole
channel of material that chess fitted into somehow is a lot tougher to
do.
In British terms, about your only hope would be BBC4. And to get it
there
would need someone who cared enough to make it happen. After all as I
type this the next programmes on are foreign language film awards, the
art of Spain and a comedian I've never heard of on what Sundays mean to
him. There are more serious chess players than people who are going to
watch any of those.
--
Christopher Dearlove
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