All posts by Bally python
Below are all of Bally python's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Briantist: Hold up! What they put on in the C1 slot may be up to them but I was under the impression that watching TV was about being entertained and not about making one very rich man even richer while good channels are either filled up with the kind of dross that is about to replace C1 or closed down altogether.
As the channel that is to replace C1 is to be an "archive" channel, I take it that means that all the programs shown on it will be repeats. Why would anyone want to watch ten to thirty year old game shows instead of programs like V, Criminal Minds and yes Star Trek. After programs like these do you really think we will want to watch such rubbish.
KEEP C1 GOING AND SHUT THAT OTHER GARBAGE CHANNEL DOWN!
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Briantist: This may well be the case but TV providers, no matter who they are also have a responsibility to provide good quality programs that "eyeballs" want to watch and not fill the airways with dross that those said "eyeballs" do not want to watch and many of them are paying good money for. Many freeview only watchers can not afford to pay a monthly subscription for Sky or any other pay TV. Because these people either can not or will not pay that means that they are not worthy of decent good quality programs that they want to sit and watch. It seems they want to get rid of freeview only people by boring them them to death while they get very rich in the process.
Yes it is that word that should not be mentioned. RESPONABILTY.
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Perhaps everyone should cancel their subscriptions to Sky and use the money to put towards a good hobby or pass time or buy some really good books to read. This would send a message that they would not be able to ignore as it would threaten their massive profits. While people are content to sit and pay for and watch crap then that is all anyone will get and freeview will be swamped with even more of it. They want to fill the slot that will be left by the demise of C1 but I suspect they have gone for the cheapest option.
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Briantist: Why are said advertisers and share holders not held responsible for the building torrent of crap that passes itself off for TV at the expense of good quality programs and channels.
Illiad: I, for one have been going back more and more to what I was doing before multi channel TV and voting with my feet. Instead of moaning lets do something about it, use the off button on the TV.
Linda Fletcher: I am sorry to see the end of Star Trek and all the other good programs that C1 broadcast and I think that what RM has done here is totally despicable and he should not be allowed to monopolise the TV and media in the way that he has. Before anyone says that it is a free market let me point out that it WAS a free market until RM started to swallow everything up and shut it down, C1 is a case in point. He has got away with it for far to long and the result is anything that will make the most profit for the cronies at the top while those who pay do not get value for money and those who only have freeview see it go down the pan under an ever growing pile of junk. But we make the biggest mistake of all when we turn on the rubbish TV. Use the off button instead, if no one watches it there is no point in them broadcasting it and it sends a clear message that we want quality channels and quality programs and not entire channels that are literally old rubbish.
Briantist: It is no longer a free market when one company has the monopoly and can do exactly what it pleases even to the point of shutting down good quality popular channels and replacing them with pure garbage. Just because something can be done does not mean that it should be done.
My TV off button beckons as does the book I want to finish writing.
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Tony: You are not the only one who is upset at the demise of C1 and Star Trek not to mention all the other top quality programs as well. I suspect the reasons why this channel is being shut down are down to envy, jealousy and above all greed.
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Briantist: I see what you are saying but this being the case then TV is really set to go down the toilet. As for them not caring about the quality of TV, my mother has a saying that should apply to them and it is this: Don't care was made to care. I have already explained how we make them care. If enough people switched off they would have to take notice.
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No more C1. This channel will be sorely missed just so the greedy fat cats can make even bigger profits. Lets face it what these people have done is obscene. It seems to be the way of the world at the moment though. Take it away from the poor and give it to the rich. I will not be taking out a subscription with Sky or anyone else and as I refuse to watch crap TV I will be using my off button. Maybe every one should cancel their subscriptions to Sky and take up a hobby.
Rupert Murdock should be made to read this entire thread so he can see how unpopular the killing off of C1 actually is. Mind you, he would not care one iota.
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Briantist: If that is all Sky is there for then the sooner they are got rid of the better.
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Wednesday 26 January 2011 11:30PM
I like C1 and I am bitterly disappointed that it will be replaced some waste of space game show channel that I will never watch. As for C1 being the same as Sky 3, how do they arrive at that. They both have different line ups so I fail to see where these two channels are in any way similar, this is just an excuse to shut down a good channel and replace it with a load of old rubbish. I think the only way we will see the quality programs that are on C1 will be to subscribe to Sky as they may not be coming back on freeview. This is all very well but many people can not afford to pay for a monthly subscription. So this is a form of discrimination against those of us who are not that well off, we get dross TV because we can not afford anything better. They could have at least tried to replace C1 with something for those of us whose IQ is not in the toilet.
I will not subscribe to Sky on principle. I took out a years subscription and when I could not receive Sky due to a faulty communal aerial and wrote and told them about it they still charged me for it. They even chased me to my new address for a measly £20 Telling me I had to pay a months subscription when I had already moved out of the old place with the bad aerial. They wanted me to pay a months money on an empty house. I will never subscribe to Sky again. I would rather look at a telephone directory that was written in Sanskrit.