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Originally Posted by Sarge
Stephen
I refuse to "pay" to watch TV. Its bad enough watching it for free. I agree with you - current affairs programs are really crap. I am looking forward to ABC 24, promos sound great. But I wish Aunty would put "Time Team" back on, it is one of the best shows coming out of England.
Rod |
Rod, in regards to Time Team, ABC started showing the new 2010 series last month, but stopped after only 5 episodes. The feedback I have received from ABC Programming is that the ABC only had permission to broadcast these episodes as the rest of the series has not been aired in the UK to date. But the very strong rumour circulating on discussion boards is that the ABC have had their broadcasting rights for the rest of this new season temporarily withdrawn because they aired these first 5 episodes out of sequence. And by the way, they were fantastic episodes too
Al, I agree that there is some news programming on free-to-air, but I cannot agree that there is any news bulletin on free-to-air at this time which I can walk away after viewing and confidently say I have been better informed on genuine national and world events.
On the commercial networks alone we have the "morning shows" (
Sunrise,
Today), Mid-morning news bulletins and news crosses between
Kerri-Ann,. 9 has an 11am bulletin. Most of thses news stories are pulled from US feeds and are simply not news! I watched on mid-morning news service last week which included stories on Danni Minogue, then Lindsay Lohan going to jail??? How is this news, please? And the three networks have their nighly news. Well, in my opinion all these services are sub-standard,tabloid puff with no substance.
I guess it depends what you want from your information. I have been relatively pleased with Sky News, I used to enjoy CNN back when I had no other new source available. I believe this is a step forward for broadcasting, but time will tell.