Advertisments on SBS

[Rossluck]

Have you noticed that SBS have recently started interrupting programs with advertisements. Two shows that we watch, Mythbusters and Iron Chef, are now almost unwatchable.

Bummer.:mad:

[ptc]

Gives You The Sh!!!!

[Flowboy]

Rossluck,

There's a lot more on SBS ads in the link below.

Regards

Rob
http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=39179

[Bob38S]

Have you noticed that SBS have recently started interrupting programs with advertisements. Two shows that we watch, Mythbusters and Iron Chef, are now almost unwatchable.

Bummer.:mad:

Yep, get onto their website and tell them that you are not happy - the garbage of having to raise revenue and then showing self promotion ads just doesn't wash.:mad::mad::mad:

[Sir Stinkalot]

Have you noticed that SBS have recently started interrupting programs with advertisements. Two shows that we watch, Mythbusters and Iron Chef, are now almost unwatchable.

Bummer.:mad:

I have almost given up on Mythbusters all together (Especially after enjoying Top Gear for a few months).

It seems as if the show is now focused on the helpers more often than not and they seem to spend 75% of the time with the voice over guy recapping what they are doing. You can now turn on the last 5 minutes get the voice over update which shows everything that has happened for the last 55 minutes and there is your show.

Perhaps they need to constantly recap for the American audience to keep them up to speed.

The above and the advertisements are almost enough to give up on the show.

[ptc]

sent this to abc :

Getting more like comercial tv every day.

NOT HAPPY.

[echnidna]

With johnny & co selling everything off including medibank then dear ole aunty abc's fire sale wont be far off.

[Sturdee]

sent this to abc :

Getting more like commercial tv every day.

NOT HAPPY.

Under Johny's funding rules SBS must obtain 20 % of their income from sponsorships etc. The adds previously came between programs, but as most people go and do other things during these breaks, they will (with Johny's blessing) show them during programs.

Normal ABC will be next if this trend is succesful.:mad:


Peter.

[Waldo]

G'day Rossluck,

I noticed it two weeks ago when watching OZ. :(

SWMBO had to hear of my great displeasure over it, yes it does kill the beauty of watching great programmes with no commercial thrown in to annoy you. Hopefully they stay as short ad breaks - like the old days where it was just enough time to head to the kitchen for something, unlike the other networks where you could make a coffee and cut 6 dovetail drawers :rolleyes:

[Metal Head]

Well how do you lot think SBS is going to survive long term unless it gets its revenue from advertisers. They still have a lot of quality programs to watch but have missed out on others - in the bidding wars with rival networks - because they couldn't afford them.

It used to be great to watch the English premier league on SBS (free of charge) but they dipped out to Foxtel in a bidding war. So if it means having to watch some adverts so they can compete with the bigger networks then let it be. After all, the FOXTEL thread showed that the majority of members who wrote on it were complaining about the cost and lack of "value for money" which cannot be said of SBS:rolleyes:.

Regards
David

[julianx]

Our local dvd store has a great selection of tv series' on dvd now. I go in on there cheap nights and borrow a whole series and watch them at my lesiure without adds.
A word of warning! don't watch the entire series of league of gentlemen in one sitting it will really mess with your head:D

[Daddles]

Haven't you heard - watching stuff on Free to Air is a LUXURY. We should be gratefull that anything gets onto FTA at all and if you can't afford Foxtel, well stiff *that word that get's censored out*

Pah. I know that's not the prevailing attititude here, but I've recently copped that on a soccer forum full of late teens and early twenties, all of whom believe that it's fine to have to pay to watch stuff because it's a luxury. Most of these arrogant young twits have their mummies and daddies paying for it for them (yeah, that came out about six months back so I'm not exagerating). The sad part is, it's these same idiots who are driving the market places either now or in the near future.

Why does it feel like we're moving towards a more sneaky version of the 'greed is good' generation again?

Richard

'grumpy is a lifestyle, not a mental aberation' - me, 2006

[julianx]

Why does it feel like we're moving towards a more sneaky version of the 'greed is good' generation again?

I think it might have something to do with our government

[Daddles]

I think it might have something to do with our government

I'm not cynical enough to believe that ... yes I am :mad:

Richard

[Honorary Bloke]

Perhaps they need to constantly recap for the American audience to keep them up to speed.

You'd better smile when you say that Mister. :D ;) :D

[martrix]

Why does it feel like we're moving towards a more sneaky version of the 'greed is good' generation again?



mmmm, yes....a revisit to the lofty heights of the late eighties? the one we had to have...again?

[Studley 2436]

Actually owning a free to air license which is basically a license to print money means the ABC is worth something. They could sell it and then just put out for tender everything that the ABC should do like make historical docos and the like.

Can't see why that shouldn't happen.

I thought the greed is good generation was the Baby Boomers? After all Gen X ers were too young then to be trading shares. Gen Y hadn't even made it to kindy

Studley

[Bulli]

This very topic was discussed recently in Canberra at Senate Estimates (http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s9768.pdf) (interupted by a suicidal bogong moth):
Senator CONROY—Is there a natural program break in Inspector Rex? Can we look forward to ads in Inspector Rex?
Mr Brown—We have not put Inspector Rex on the list of programs to be dealt with.
A moth having flown into one of the spotlights and smoke coming out of the light—
Senator CONROY
—We are on fire.
Senator Coonan—That is a natural break!
Senator CONROY—This is definitely a natural program break. If SBS are covering this, they can put an ad in right now. We were just wondering whether we could look forward to Inspector Rex having ads.
Mr Brown—Inspector Rex is a drama. There is a guideline established for natural breaks in drama programs and, if those guidelines identify breaks inside Inspector Rex, then, yes, Inspector Rex will have breaks.
Senator CONROY
—When he stops for a drink or has some food? I am just wondering what your definition of a natural break is. The burning bogongs are back. Is that you on fire over there, Senator Fierravanti-Wells? Are you burning something? We may need a natural program break here. The devil has arrived: I can smell the incense burning.

[Rossluck]

Well I hate ads at the best of time, and have them in the same category as mosquitoes and dumb traffic lights (you know, the ones that stop fifty cars and trucks for five minutes to let one wander through).

I understand the economics of it, ie., economic rationalism, rampant capatialism, ram it down their throats over and over so that they buy it automatically the next time they're shopping, and so on!

But that's why we look to sanctuaries like SBS and the ABC to avoid ads, insect repellant to get rid of the mossies, and live in semi-rural areas to avoid traffic lights. Well, that's what I do anyway. :D

[Studley 2436]

But Ross you can get that on cable can't you?

The arguement for selling ABC is that the government can't control it so sell it to someone who can. Then the Government can get on with regulating things which is the one thing it is best for.

Mind you the media is so political witness the new media regulations.

Studley

[Bob38S]

Well I hate ads at the best of time, ........

I understand the economics of it, ie., economic rationalism, rampant capatialism, ram it down their throats over and over so that they buy it automatically the next time they're shopping, and so on!

But that's why we look to sanctuaries like SBS and the ABC to avoid ads, insect repellant to get rid of the mossies, and live in semi-rural areas to avoid traffic lights. Well, that's what I do anyway. :D

Hear Hear,
I would have the fastest trigger finger in the east on the remote control :D:D

It absolutely amazes me [when I'm not quite quck enough] as to who in their right mind would be interested in washing products, buying a car etc at 10.00 pm

I believe that the word boycott is not legal to use - so I won't - but surely blind Freddie would be able to see that if you annoy people enough with some insulting, mind numbing tripe that some people would avoid your product like the plague or go out of their way to buy their opposition's product :p:p:p . Are you [those responsible] listening????

Thank the tech gods for recorders with up to 5 times scan speeds which allow the reduction of interruption time to be dealt with in a few seconds. :D:D

Bob
:D:):D

[Rossluck]

But Ross you can get that on cable can't you?

The arguement for selling ABC is that the government can't control it so sell it to someone who can. Then the Government can get on with regulating things which is the one thing it is best for.

Mind you the media is so political witness the new media regulations.

Studley


Maybe you're right. I'm clinging onto the past a bit. Cable's not the answer for me. It's not the cost of it, it's just that it seems to rerun the same old programs over and over and over, and it's cultural tone just doesn't do it for me.

Turning over to SBS or the ABC from the commercial stations was like stepping from a truck into a roller. Now SBS has gone with the money. I suppose we should all just give up and head down to Macca'a for dinner and have a good old shop ....:rolleyes:

[Clinton1]

I thought the greed is good generation was the Baby Boomers? After all Gen X ers were too young then to be trading shares. Gen Y hadn't even made it to kindy



trouble with the Gen X and Y'ers is that the Baby Boomers raised them....

SBS and ABC will have to fight their corner to survive the current Fed Govt. I don't think having independant minded media is particularly wanted with the current mob.... after all, it does nothing to keep interest rates down and the incumbants at the trough.

Raising revenue through adds destroys the ABC and SBS's differentiation, helping to make them similiar to the commercial stations and assisting in eroding their support base. :(

[Rossluck]

Raising revenue through adds destroys the ABC and SBS's differentiation, helping to make them similiar to the commercial stations and assisting in eroding their support base. :(


Yes.