Why do they frig about with TV channels so much still?
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The other day it was BTCC hopping from itv4 to itv and back again.
Today just went to flip on bbc1s already-recording sewing bee FINAL to find they've decided they'd like to show some tennis racquet weilding tvvats and the sewing bee has, sorry HAD, been flipped to BBC 2
WTF is the point of this, why can't they just decide on a channel they'd like to use and show the thing in a predicable way? Do they think everyone watches everything live? If so can someone tell how I inform the bbc/itv etc how media is consumed in the c21?
I've got a sky box showing mostly 9000 channels of trite and 9000 +1 channels of the trite that was on a hour ago (less the channels with stuff you want) and i can't just watch the thing I told it I wanted. Yes I'm irrationally pissed off but should it be so f
king difficult.
Today just went to flip on bbc1s already-recording sewing bee FINAL to find they've decided they'd like to show some tennis racquet weilding tvvats and the sewing bee has, sorry HAD, been flipped to BBC 2
WTF is the point of this, why can't they just decide on a channel they'd like to use and show the thing in a predicable way? Do they think everyone watches everything live? If so can someone tell how I inform the bbc/itv etc how media is consumed in the c21?
I've got a sky box showing mostly 9000 channels of trite and 9000 +1 channels of the trite that was on a hour ago (less the channels with stuff you want) and i can't just watch the thing I told it I wanted. Yes I'm irrationally pissed off but should it be so f
king difficult.The BTCC switch to iTV from ITV4 and back for a couple of rounds was agreed in advance and is an attempt to try and get some more viewers into BTCC. It was also publicised in advance.
With regards to Wimbledon, I don't understand it either. They end up disrupting the schedules for 2 channels rather than just the one. It's not like the old days when some people couldn't get BBC2. However, there must be a reason whether it be in a contract somewhere, to manipulate viewing figures and as a consequence it will come down to funding somehow. No doubt someone will have written to Points of View.
With regards to Wimbledon, I don't understand it either. They end up disrupting the schedules for 2 channels rather than just the one. It's not like the old days when some people couldn't get BBC2. However, there must be a reason whether it be in a contract somewhere, to manipulate viewing figures and as a consequence it will come down to funding somehow. No doubt someone will have written to Points of View.
cuprabob said:
The BTCC switch to iTV from ITV4 and back for a couple of rounds was agreed in advance and is an attempt to try and get some more viewers into BTCC. It was also publicised in advance.
With regards to Wimbledon, I don't understand it either. They end up disrupting the schedules for 2 channels rather than just the one. It's not like the old days when some people couldn't get BBC2. However, there must be a reason whether it be in a contract somewhere, to manipulate viewing figures and as a consequence it will come down to funding somehow. No doubt someone will have written to Points of View.
How does switching to itv get more viewers? Are they relying on people being too lazy to switch the station?With regards to Wimbledon, I don't understand it either. They end up disrupting the schedules for 2 channels rather than just the one. It's not like the old days when some people couldn't get BBC2. However, there must be a reason whether it be in a contract somewhere, to manipulate viewing figures and as a consequence it will come down to funding somehow. No doubt someone will have written to Points of View.
It must be a vanishingly small number of people who couldn't access itv4 if any will is there - is analog 5 channel TV even still broadcast?
Agreed. My wife was furious at missing part of the Seeing Bee final ( she was planning on watching it 30 mins in arrears) and I’m annoyed after her moaning so much about it. Why not watch it on demand iPlayer I hear you say? Spoilers apparently. Point is it just messes up other peoples plans who have no interest in the whatever it is going on.
Greedydog said:
Agreed. My wife was furious at missing part of the Seeing Bee final ( she was planning on watching it 30 mins in arrears) and I’m annoyed after her moaning so much about it. Why not watch it on demand iPlayer I hear you say? Spoilers apparently. Point is it just messes up other peoples plans who have no interest in the whatever it is going on.
If that happens again, the iPlayer app allows you watch TV "live", and to go back to the start of the programme that is currently being broadcast.gareth_r said:
Greedydog said:
Agreed. My wife was furious at missing part of the Seeing Bee final ( she was planning on watching it 30 mins in arrears) and I’m annoyed after her moaning so much about it. Why not watch it on demand iPlayer I hear you say? Spoilers apparently. Point is it just messes up other peoples plans who have no interest in the whatever it is going on.
If that happens again, the iPlayer app allows you watch TV "live", and to go back to the start of the programme that is currently being broadcast.Teddy Lop said:
How does switching to itv get more viewers? Are they relying on people being too lazy to switch the station?
Gravitas.Despite the number of channels that exist, BBC1 and ITV remain the two prime channels. This is partly perceptional but both channels do tend to put what they call 'premium' content on those channels unless there's a natural home for it elsewhere.
So when someone's flicking through and sees BTCC on ITV1, there's a subconscious thought that "this must be good otherwise it would be on ITV4". Whether this translates into more viewers remains to be seen.
Zarco said:
Pisses me off too.
Similarly I don't understand why in this day and age my TiVo box can't tell that something has over run its slot and needs to keep recording the programme, rather than cut off the last 5 laps of the race I was enjoying.
It's American, and they don't (or, at least, didn't) have "accurate recording".Similarly I don't understand why in this day and age my TiVo box can't tell that something has over run its slot and needs to keep recording the programme, rather than cut off the last 5 laps of the race I was enjoying.
https://slate.com/culture/2013/06/accurate-recordi...
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