Posts by Steve Barnes
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@Steve: I think the key concept is "icons". I've heard it said, for example, that much of the audience of History Channel is not particularly knowlegeable about history, but they do recognise icons,
But why do they have to show what people already know about?It's not like the History Channel actually carries advertising, apart from advertising more shows about Hitler and Sharks. This is the sort of channel that I would like to see receive funding, if their programming was a little less "SENSATIONAL!!!" and a bit more educational.
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And another thing...
Why is the majority of programming on the History channel all about Hitler??? is it just that the rights are in the public domain and the History channel folks are just cheap bastards?. -
I've said this before somewhere. Unlike Radio, TV has little loyalty.
People will tune in to a radio station and stick with it a lot of the time, not so with TV, sure you have your favourite programmes but they aren't all on the same channel I suspect. Like a lot of media outlets the number of TV stations has grown over the years driven by the mighty advertising dollar and to populate that space there has been an explosion in content and a lot of that content has been rubbish.
I have a full set of "The Ascent of Man",Jacob Bronowski 1973, a ground breaking series at the time. I tried to watch it the other night but kept being interrupted by people saying it was boring. This gave me cause to think about how the style of presentation has changed over the years. In the presentation there were long segments of Dr. Bronowski talking direct to camera with little or no cutaways or illustrative overlays, no snap pans to "Interesting" background action, nothing but information. There was certainly no repetition or deliberate "Ad Slots" as we see these days but then "Ascent of Man" was a BBC production and the BBC did not rely on Advertising.
The question has been asked about who will do the News reporting when all the outlets are aggregators?, why will anybody bother to report unpopular and unproductive News? Will they just aggregate press releases and leave the hard news untold?.
I think we have an answer right here. If there are people with a Passion for truth and Justice and those that care enough to listen then who needs those big corporate bastards anyway.
So. what to do? Government funding for TV News? Now there's a can of worms. -
All cried out now.............
My heart goes out to you and your family David.
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Your Grandfathers book has a life of its own and your Grandmother will live on between the covers. -
Heh, I once recommended against hiring this guy based on the fact that he mentioned that he was a fan of Coronation Street.
Such blatant prejudice - I'm guessing he was ginga as well?And worked for OKI and believed that music sounded better through Monster Cables?.
Coro. as it is referred to by its acolytes, was one of the reasons I left the UK. You can understand my disappointment with the Antipodes. -
We have to watch our aitches in NZ now!
;- )"Young man. Where are your aspirates" Asked the Master.
"Why Sir?. Ave ya got a nedache?" -
Better to keep money coming from general taxation which is at least partially progressive.
A licensing fee now would probably be at least $200 to raise anything meaningful, which is a lot for a low income family.I sort of agree but how many of those low income families pay up to $90 a month to watch Sky TV? We all complained about the licensing fee but are quite willing to pay for Sky.
I still don't understand why our "Public" Tvnz has to return a profit to the treasury, I think somewhere along the line, someone lost the plot. It's supposed to be the other way round, surely?. -
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