ng given to you completed. You can walk out, fall asleep if you so wish, but the option of flipping over the channel or tweeking the tuner is abscent. The cinematic experience is a captive one, the VCR experience offers a fast-forward forward, but this is film on tv and not cinema. When listening to radio or watching television there are many simultaneous options available. The three medium are interwoven and each copy, steal, borrow, and bodge ideas from the other. Television has lifted music from radio. Music is radio’s trump card, but from that the music video was born has become a monster industry in itself, with television channels devoted entirely to it. But radio need not fear, music is music and it is to listen to, not watch. All three are subject to advertising for means of finance, even though films do not have adverts as such, the film is an advert for itself, whether for future screenings, merchandise or video/DVD success. The advertisments inbetween a quality film on terrestrial TV, will be subject to its popularity and pay a higher price for its slot. There is always the media and the consumer. The saving grace for all three in this day and age is variety, there is an abundance of each,there has always been choice with film but with the onset of digital television people will find their own areas of entertainment. Everyone should be able to enjoy and consume the presentations they individually wish to. The years roll by and the choices increase, maybe with it the constraints of censorship, within these media, will be reduced. This can only be good. With radio, television and film within television, the content has, on a broadcast level been constrained because of the need to avoid offending the majority. The minority has never had it so good, airtime can be and is made available. Subscription and pay per view lets people choose to watch what they wish to. If you don’t want to watch i...
