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How is history taught at British Private Schools?
How is history taught at British Private Schools? By Bryan McElearney in 2022 Editor’s Note: CCETv must be non-political to respect our commercial operation and having concerned Founding Sponsors. Yet we have purpose: to increase our audience’s comfort, energy saving and therefore the planet. In the following article we draw parallels, not to score points…
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Trust in messages?
Being congratulated by the expert is gratifying, I was making a programme about a man who led horses against tanks, as he fought Mussolini in the Sahara. Our presenter was Denis Mack Smith – Senior Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford – a world expert of Modern Italian History, he was greatly impressed by the…
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Being first brings success forever!
The original uploader was Shermozle at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0
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Battle of the big boys – for our planet?
Although CCETv’s focus is very much helping keep our audience comfortable; using clean energy and saving money, we do feature all forms of sustainability to our concerned audience, so they know what is going on in the world to help our planet. It has often been reported that enough energy falls on the Sahara in…
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Sharks to Spring – A picture tells a thousand words.
This old saying is so apt, probably even more so in a digital world when an image can be included at the flip of a finger. At CCETv we use this “Sharks” image when we want to make the point about the dangers of climate change. We would love to credit the creator, but we…
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The scientist, the campaigner, and the schoolgirl, where sits the power?
A few years ago when the originators of CCETv drew more attention to the fact that houses leak and waste massive amounts of energy, they were aware of the dangers of looking like financially unfashionable “tree huggers” but we felt strongly that when people improved their home’s the addition of energy efficiency would save long…
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Television sponsorship
Updated: Apr 17, 2021 We now easily accept television sponsorship in the UK but for over 50 years from when commercial television started in 1955 the television governing bodies – the IBA and then OFCOM – forbad anything that would look like sponsorship. The source of adverting income was limited to spot adverting, the commercial breaks.…
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Sponsorship – the beginning?
Updated: Apr 12, 2021 Exactly when and where did it start? Probably in 1780 and it is still going strong, a good investment for just over £1,065. It also has many imitators all over the world all named after the 12th Earl of Derby, consequently the original is now known as the Epson Derby. Over the…
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Origins of CCETv
Whilst being a founding partner of Roger Cherrill Ltd. – the extraordinarily successful film postproduction house – Barry Chattington led Southern Counties Television which came a very close second to winning the South and South East IBA franchise. In the last franchise bids through Barry’s endeavours Central Television won their franchise for only £2,000 pa…