This new show on SBS is an interesting concept poorly planned out. I discussed it at length with Fran Kelly on Radio National this week.
You can listen to it via the internetwebs: Radio National Breakfast (7/8/2007).
Annual Archives: 2007
This news was from Tuesday (sorry for the delay and thanks to Paul Boxcutter for the heads-up).
Come September, Foxtel will be rebroadcasting Ten’s digital signal which also means they will publish the Ten EPG.
Now we just have to wait for Foxtel to open up their system to allow other pieces of software and hardware to have access and we might actually have a choice over how we watch our television.
Just imagine an openly competitive marketplace. A place where we can buy whichever PVR we want, subscribing to whichever EPG we choose (Ice TV really does have the best service out there), rather than being tied to one system. Alas, I seem to live in a dream world.
Still, I’ve now signed up for an IQ. I’ll be sure to keep the Boxcutters listeners/blog-readers posted on the ups and downs.
via The Age: Foxtel nabs Ten rights
Congratulations to Ice TV which won it’s long running court case against Channel 9 today. Great news for the young Aussie company. Onwards and upwards.
Further to the “news” item that WIN would be showing Brady Bunch in the afternoon and why they would bother sending out a media release about it, a dedicated listener informed me of WIN boss Bruce Gordon’s current battle with PBL Media/Nine over content deals and pointed me to a Fairfax article from this morning:
“We’re out of contract and they keep threatening to turn us off,” Mr Gordon said. “We said, ‘Go ahead: take your programming off’, and we think it would be a lot of fun if they did. We can program this network. When I bought this network in 1979, there were no affiliation agreements.”
PBL Media, owner of the Nine Network, wants WIN to pay 40 per cent of its revenue in return for programming, up from the 32 per cent it pays under the current agreement, which officially expired on July 1.
Mr Gordon wants the fees reduced to reflect poor ratings, and to bring them into line with the 29 per cent of revenue that WIN’s main regional competitors, Prime and Southern Cross Broadcasting, pay their partners at Seven and Ten.
Apparently it is worthwhile to boast about putting on 35 year old repeats if it means you’re sticking it to the big boys.
This week we talk the talk with our always entertaining international correspondent James Talia.
Perfect 10 or wipeout? We look at the mysterious John From Cincinnati.
Crap TV focuses on some dodgy gag editing and credits erasing, while Crap Press examines a pointless spoiler.
Plus, it’s the return of the Quiz. Win stuff from us.
Your ears:
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In a huge episode this week we have our resident Doctor of Lost, Justin Hamilton, in to talk about the season finale. We also have some Crap TV, some Crap Press, the second last Golden Age of Television discussion, and a decent helping of Pork as well as the week’s news.
Episode 96 is crunchy, tasty and goes well with milk:
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Trust us – even if you have only got Dodo broadband this weeks show is worth a quarter of your monthly download.
In the Golden Age of Television we look at a couple of ‘the’ shows – namely The Shield and The Wire.
There is also double trouble in I Don’t Buy It focusing on two different types of rip offs.
There’s some chat about reality show On The Lot. Plus News and Pork.
And stay tuned for details of our long awaited Crumpler Beanbag comp giveaway! (see below)
Listen here:
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Our long anticipated Boxcutters competition is now underway.
All you need to do is spread the word about Boxcutters, in any way you want – the more creative the better – bring new visitors to the site with your special URL and you’ll be in the running for a Crumpler bean bag of your own.
If you want to enter, send us a message to let us know, through the Boxcutters contact form, so we know how to contact you.
You’ll have to be registered on the site to make your special link so we can make sure we have a unique address for you to use.
How does it work? I’m glad you asked. The link you want to send people to begins with https://www.boxcutters.net/blog/index.php?compid= followed by your username on the blog. My username is brett, so the URL I’d put out is https://www.boxcutters.net/blog/index.php?compid=brett
For our unusual users with more than one word in their username, where there’s a space, enter “%20”. So, if my username was brett boxcutter, the links would be https://www.boxcutters.net/blog/index.php?compid=brett%20boxcutter
It seems complicated but remember: you can always get in touch and we’ll explain it some more.
As you spread the word, put a link to where your link is posted, or describe your strategy, in the comments on this post.
The competition is open until 11:59pm on Sunday, September 30, at which point the winner will be decided by the judging panel (Brett, Josh and Ross) based on the number of visitors brought to Boxcutters, with extra points for style and creativity and minus points for shenanigans.
Happy Promoting!
Thanks to David Boxcutter for all the monkeys.
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Thursday night viewing (including Sea Patrol, The Great Global Warming Swindle and Age of Love) are discussed. Brett does not buy bad Scottish accents, Ross looks at the politics of Raywatch, Josh professes his love for John From Cincinnati. Also, News, Pork and two network shows in Golden Age of Television.
That’s all in Boxcutters Episode 94. It’s a podcast all about television and all about you.
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