Given that there is very little worth watching on FTA TV in non sporting times I'm afraid your summer is going to be a wasteland regardless:)Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
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Given that there is very little worth watching on FTA TV in non sporting times I'm afraid your summer is going to be a wasteland regardless:)Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
Not an issue here..Quote:
Originally Posted by djhampson
We (this region) dont get Channel 9 :angel:
1 HD is a startQuote:
Originally Posted by loanrangie
Can't believe people don't know about 1HD..... so many free to air shows now.Quote:
Originally Posted by JLo
For those who don't like sport.............;) Plenty of other free to air programs now.
I have fox at the moment & I am about to tell them to bugger off, been to many adds for my liking.
The doco chanels on fox are awesome, spend just about as much time there as I do the sport...:p
I just can't believe that people pay to watch TV and ads! When PTV came to Aus it was marketed as being ad free. Had it for 2 years until they started the advertsing. Because they tried to maximise profits by over charging on subscription fees & being inflexible by not allowing people to tailor the channels that they wanted they didn't make the profits they had hoped for, so they bring in advertising.
I am so peeved about the super 14 not being on FTA or even re-broadcast later that I have been that close to going the PTV way but just can't bring myself to paying to watch ads irrespective of when they broadcast them.
As far as quantity of ads on FTA I think that it is a max. of 13mins per hour. However this is an average so it does get screwed around with by some during 'special events'. Channel 9 have no idea how to satisfy their audience (not in my house anyhow) and that is why they aren't winning the ratings. If another channel had the Winter Olympics I may have watched them.
They think we will just sit there and take whatever they dish out.
FTA digital is a good thing so support the campaign to keep major events on FTA. Personally, I cannot see why both PTV and FTA can't broadcast major events simultaneously and there should be no exclusives. That way people can choose when they see the ads.
Cheers
JLo
Each to their own I guess, I was merely passing on the info as I received it. We at home rarely watch any form of TV, and when the TV is on usually "Bananas in Pajamas" or "Bob the Builder" or whatever our 2.5 yo wants to watch :D
Personally TV is a waste of life, I much prefer being out in the scrub camping or taking photography than sport. But, I prefer Sport than the other tripe they put on TV.
I just wish that I could pay for just the doco and BBC channels and maybe some of the movie channels the rest are a waste of time.
They suggest that some of the channels are free - Ha - when you ask them to remove the christian channel they won't and they come up with the free bit, so then you ask them for equal time for the other religions, Buddist, Hindu, Jewish and Islam etc they won't do that either.
".....Personally TV is a waste of life, I much prefer being out in the scrub camping or taking photography than sport.
no disagreement from me there Stooge.
And yes each to there own
Cheers
JLo
I agree. I hate the fact that I can't tailor the package for what I want. Most channels I don't watch but I have to pay extra to get the channels I do watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
The FTA networks are absolutely hopeless with sport.
I know that not many people here are interested in tennis - but the network broadcasting the Australian Open this year (Seven) should not have had the rights.
They frequently interrupted transmission of huge games (Hewitt, Serena Williams vs. Stosur - a major game frequently advertised by Seven - and appalling Federer when he was a set and a break down) to broadcast Home & Away, or worse today tonight (FROM THE TENNIS!).
When Federer was down a set and a break (or two?) in the second set of what I think was a quarter-final, they cut to today tonight (I won't them with capitals :p) and returned after Federer had staged an amazing comeback. For those uninterested in tennis, it's like watching on Origin game with NSW (or Queensland :angel:) coming back from 25-0. :mad:
This was also one of the Grand Slams - the Australian Open! :angrylock:
When they cut transmission, they didn't even defer it to one of their many digital channels (and Foxtel did not have the rights).
The argument holds for those here who don't want to watch the tennis - you would have been (as would I) better off if Foxtel had the rights.