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MrBurns said:
Where has Dexter gone, seems to have disappeared.
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Season 2 has finished...season 3 was very good...i think season 4 starts in the US soon,
we are about a year behind here....Mr Burns, u know about channel B right?

So much better to watch em without commercials and in blocks of 2 or 3 episodes at a time.

Food Safari on SBS is a great show, anyone see the beef bouillon episode? :emp:
 
So_Cynical said:
Season 2 has finished...season 3 was very good...i think season 4 starts in the US soon,
we are about a year behind here.

So much better to watch em without commercials and in blocks of 2 or 3 episodes at a time.

Food Safari on SBS is a great show, anyone see the beef bouillon episode? :emp:
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A mate of mine has downloaded every episode, dont ask me how.

Also every episode of Top Gear before we get it here.

Channel B whats that ????
 
I'd happily give up everything I currently watch for just one episode of "The Chasers". Where are they????
 
Strange though it seems for someone not at all into cars, but Top Gear would be my most regularly watched program. The UK version is always good for a laugh.

Others: Mythbusters, watched Dirt Game last week and will probably watch it again tomorrow, occasionally watch South Park and the Simpsons, Swift and Shift was good for a laugh too.

Overall I don't watch much TV though. The commercial stations basically committed long term business suicide IMO when they scrapped anything resembling decent programming a few years ago in favour of home videos, various singing contests, cheap rip offs of overseas programs and generally anything that avoids paying professional actors, hosts or script writers.
 
Smurf1976 said:
Strange though it seems for someone not at all into cars, but Top Gear would be my most regularly watched program. The UK version is always good for a laugh.

Other than that, Mythbusters, watched Dirt Game last week and will probably watch it again tomorrow, occasionally watch South Park and the Simpsons, Swift and Shift was good for a laugh too.
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Jeremy from Top Gear has the most superb sense of humor and the others 2 are faultless as well, you don't have to be a car fan to watch it.
 
MrBurns said:
A mate of mine has downloaded every episode, dont ask me how.

Also every episode of Top Gear before we get it here.

Channel B whats that ????
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Channel B is what your mate with every episode has...i couldn't live without it.
 
MrBurns said:
If it wasnt for the ABC and SBS we'd all go freeking mad.
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It seems most people on ASF are watching ABC or SBS alot, the majority of the commercial channels hardly get a mention, this if ind very confusing as if you believe the ratings that are released most of the population are watching 7,9 and 10 with only few watching the ABC and all but a few seem to watch SBS :confused:

How the hell do they come to there results with the TV ratings, that seem to show often as much as 90% of viewers watch the 7,9 and 10, either ASF posters are reflective of the minority of the population or these ratings are a farce, my moneys on the farce
 
In no particular order

Deadwood
OZ
Dexter

and unfortunately the first two are no longer with us... RIP

That being said, I don't have a TV. I use iview for watching some ABC eg Landline/Lateline Business and bittorrent for everything else I watch
 
Pager said:
How the hell do they come to there results with the TV ratings,
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Understand the ratings for what they are, it's a survey of people who watch commercial stations, it is not a survey of peopel who watch TV or even a survey of the general public (eg like myself who don't even have a TV and get all my material of bittorrent)

They interview you initially to see if you meet their criteria. One of the criteria is; do you mostly watch commercial stations ? If you watch lots of ABC and/or SBS they pass you by. If you meet their criteria, they leave a litte set top box with you, that monitors what you watch and when you watch it. The stats they collect are quite accurate for the population they are sampling.

Like most stats (eg Unemployment) , people read the headline numbers with little understanding of what they mean

They have no interest in collecting info from the people who watch ABC / SBS
 
Oz
Shameless
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office (The original)
The New Statesman
Seinfeld
That 70's Show
 
Pager said:
It seems most people on ASF are watching ABC or SBS alot, the majority of the commercial channels hardly get a mention, this if ind very confusing as if you believe the ratings that are released most of the population are watching 7,9 and 10 with only few watching the ABC and all but a few seem to watch SBS :confused:

How the hell do they come to there results with the TV ratings, that seem to show often as much as 90% of viewers watch the 7,9 and 10, either ASF posters are reflective of the minority of the population or these ratings are a farce, my moneys on the farce
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This may not be the case everywhere, but in places where radio ratings surveys are infrequent (annual or even longer in many cases) they are generally paid for by the commercial radio stations.

There's lots of problems with this. In short, no individual station will want to pay for a survey unless they expect it to show an increased audience. And, since they know exactly what is going on and when, you can be confident that they'll time their TV etc advertising to suit and ramp up the give aways and on-air promotions to the max during the survey period. The ABC and small community stations don't have a chance of competing with that as they simply don't have the budget to do so, nor do they have contol over the surveys.

Then comes the funny business with the community stations. You might have, say, 5 in operation but 1 accounting for most listeners. But just lump them all together on the survey results such that advertisers don't become aware that there's one community station that actually has a decent audience where advertising would be worthwhile. They'll assume the figure is spread roughly evenly across them all, such that advertising wouldn't be worthwhile.

In short, anything to show that the commercial radio / TV stations dominate the market, the ABC is on the sidelines and everyone else is insignificant.

This arrangement works nicely in the major capital cities with large populations and a handfull of dominant broadcasters. It doesn't always work so well in smaller, more fragmented markets however, but it works in the big cities and that's what the advertisers are focused on.

I think that fragmentation of the market is why the commercial channels aren't too keen on introducing new digital channels. Introducing additional commercial channels would dilute the existing commercial audience, thus increasing the relative significance of the ABC and SBS. Split the 7 / 9 / 10 audience across, say, 10 channels and the odds become very high that individual ABC and SBS programs will top the ratings. Needless to say, the commercial channels don't want such an outcome.

That situation has already happened with radio in some areas - there are places where the local ABC AM station is officially number 1 simply because the commercial audience, historically dominated by one or two stations, is now spread across several stations with none individually having a large market share.
 
Regulars
7:30 report
Insiders
RPA
Top Gear
AFL footy show
IT crowd
Doc Marten
Blackadder
Black books
Wire in the blood
 
My Family..British comedy
Only fools and horses
The young ones.. pity they are not on anymore
Border Security
Police ten seven ..NZ reality cop show
ch9 Today Show..better than sevens Sunrise
Hostage Doco's
Mash

Vietnam War Doco's

UBIQUE
 
Dexter
Stargate
Heroes
Lost
The Shield

Since our free to air TV won't show these properly i download them all
 
I forgot one

The Tourists Guide to the Aussie Outback......

Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures
 
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