Comments on: Daylight robbery for network shows

By: Sephiroth_FF

Sephiroth_FF — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:32:29 +0000

I hate Daylight Savings. It’s just an excuse for people to stay out longer. And what does it do to the rest of us? Farmers suffer, children going to school suffer. Everything is all over the place when it arrives.

Once it hits September, the rest of the year is all over the place and doesn’t seem to get better until March (maybe later).

The new voting system on Idol just isn’t working. The rest of the show is just pointless and if they open the voting lines a second time, I doubt many people will bother.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:08:55 +0000

Zambora on October 7th, 2008 10:03 pm

Maybe a reason why Idol should scrap their ridiculous 2nd chance voting system.
The NEW revamped results show, makes Idol look more and more like popularity contest and is heavily biased towards young in certain states.

So voting for a favourite isn’t a popularity thing??

By: David Knox

David Knox — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:06:36 +0000

I just can’t see networks and advertisers comfortable with Idol and Dancing with the Stars airing at 4:30 on a Sunday in WA….

By: Doug from Perth

Doug from Perth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:53:08 +0000

In WA we don’t get such a thing as a live TV show…ever! That’s regardless of DST adjustments, every program is a delayed broadcast despite having ‘Live’ supers on screen.

In this era of common PVR’s and chase-play recorders, I don’t know why the networks can’t broadcast everything live direct to every State and viewers who find the (earlier local) times don’t suit their lives can just time-shift programs themselves. That would give interstate viewers the choice of watching and participating live or as a delayed recording.

By: Neon Kitten

Neon Kitten — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:10:34 +0000

Yep, the Ten EPG (and only the Ten channels one) was an hour out in Melbourne as well yesterday (haven’t checked it today yet) which resulted in me missing Torchwood. Grr.

By: Zambora

Zambora — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:03:21 +0000

Mind you, Ten makes $$$ from kids voting using sms (I suppose the kids know sms does cost money !)

David, love the fading curtains quip!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:11:00 +0000

You’d think daylight saving was a new phenomenon? The comments that Queenslanders will have to wait an hour for their Idol results or to watch Rove is most puzzling! It’s ONE HOUR that you have to keep away from TV-related websites or forums, that’s all. And 2 months of daylight savings are in non-ratings so there’s not going to be much earth-shattering Idol or Rove then anyway. The news stuff I can almost understand, but then again the westerners have had 2-3 hour delays with national news programming forever and they seemed to have coped without much trauma.

Remembering the times that even VIC and NSW didn’t have DLS dates in alignment, so Victorians would get shows from Sydney an hour delayed, or vice versa. We lived.

By: bindi

bindi — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:54:19 +0000

they seem to fix up the EPG for the current day, probably along with them adjusting it with the specific minute times rather than the rounded half-hour times. but the rest of the 7 days have every program shifted back 1 place, sometimes this is a half hour difference, other times it is a 1 hour difference depending on the timeslots. do you guys think it is worth trying to get in contact with them about this or do you think they already know and are working on fixing it?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:44:16 +0000

Itsross, I think the days of working 9 to 5 are long gone, you’ll find a lot of workers now work various times. A lot of people I know simply ask their supervisors if they can start at 8 and finish at 4, or whatever. Or if you work in construction or on the land you simply work when the sun comes up and goes down, so adjusting clocks seems a bit backward. I guess the main point is that it seems to have a dramatic effect on ratings, especially the 6pm news, lucky for the ABC though that it seems to have a positive effect on their news which is a far superior news service anyway, so that’s probably one positive that comes from it.

By: Jack!

Jack! — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:29:52 +0000

That Monday Night verdict show is a complete waste of viewing time … they could put Torchwood or Battlestar on and get better ratings!
And what a MESS they made of most of the ABBA Songs on Sunday night … only three decent perofrmances in the entire lot …
Jack!

By: Barrie

Barrie — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:38:40 +0000

I find it really annoying that ABC2 airs in Perth live so most nights it’s actually closed down by about 8pm.

By: itsross

itsross — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:23:33 +0000

Dan I think for most people daylight savings just means more daylight hours after work, which lets face it, is full of epic win.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:47:06 +0000

Bindi – I myself am having issues with my EPG too – although with 10 and WIN – Prime is fine – it quite fustrating, I selected to tape Californication Sunday night from the EPG but missed it because the EPG was all messed up grrr…..

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:38:15 +0000

It is stupid David, in these days of centralized playout, that Queensland is left behind six months of the year. With the ever-increasing takeup of quality internet access, and the networks running forums on their sites, allowing for spoilers to be posted from down south…

By: David Knox

David Knox — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:52:11 +0000

Not to mention the fading curtains….

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:41:32 +0000

Love how some people refering to qld as staying in the dark ages for not implementing daylight saving. The fact that it was introduced in the 1900′s as a method to conserve energy during the war, wouldn’t suggest to me that states that continue to implement it are more advanced. The fact is, today their is no saving made to energy as people use air conditioning and other appliances, in fact we tend drive around a lot more when it starts, thus using more precious fuel. The term daylight saving is just ridiculus, it’s time shifting and as far as I’m concerned only states stuck in the dark ages still use it. I don’t know why the commercial networks don’t try and get rid of it of ignore it and have all the programming stay in the normal time.