Even in British homes with a Sky+ box, which allows for easy recording of programmes, almost 85% of television shows are viewed at the time the broadcasters see fit to air them".People want to watch 'Pop Idol' when everyone else is watching it," says Mike Darcey of BSkyB.
But for all the stated concern about poverty in developing countries, Peabody, unlike Gates or indeed several other big coal companies, has no record of funding programmes to reduce energy poverty.
In a statement, Mr Brennan said the report "tells part of the story" but "there are too many flaws for it to stand as the official record of the programme".
They record many hours of programmes on hard-disk drives similar to those used in computers.
When I was a kid, there weren't any DVD extras, so you had to record the "making of" programmes off the TV.
On his record as director of programmes, he remains defiant, convinced that the (abortive) axeing of News at Ten three years ago was correct, and that its reinstatement has created "a bugger's mess" - a news clash between BBC1 and ITV1, less choice for viewers.
The Supreme Court ruled then that Sony was not liable because the equipment had "substantial" uses other than infringement, such as the recording of TV programmes for later viewing.
Central/ATV studios in Birmingham were the location for the recording of many programmes for ITV including Tiswas and Crossroads, until the complex was closed in 1997, and Central moved to its current Gas Street studios.
Data were collected from the written records of the programmes and through semi-structured interviews of NGO staff.
The cost of the other recurrent goods was noted from the official records of the programmes, except for behaviour change communication materials about which information was obtained from the Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society as it supplies these materials to the sex worker programmes.
