Comments on: Gyngell: “Pay TV will flatten out”

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:03:54 +0000

Pay tv will flatten out, but FTA’s will fall off a cliff.

I presume they must offer the media buyers a fair amount of liquid refreshment before they’ll believe this tool and this year’s excuses.

By: League Freak

League Freak — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:50:17 +0000

Only watch Channel Nine for the Rugby League, and they do a terrible job with that! I think what Nine hasn’t understood about the changed Television Market in Australia is that, with so much choice, you can not expect to find too many shows that draw in a huge cross section of the viewing audience. What Seven and Ten have done well over the last few years is cater for many different audiences with their programing. Be strong on one area with a certain show, rather than drawing a below average audience across all demographics. This see’s Seven and Ten having a more committed for many of their shows. (Hope that makes sense!).

By: Craig(Buzz)

Craig(Buzz) — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:41:23 +0000

Pay Tv has nothing to worry about.Nothing has changed and as i have mentioned before the digital channels even started they are just bonus channels the Primary channels will always be number 1 priority.
Digital channels as everyone is finding is just old shows,programs that never rated the first time around and were removed,now being dusted off to be shown again.
Free to air dos’nt have the money as it is to serve up new programs on the digital channels.Be interesting to see down the track for example if Jay Leno keeps being shown or not.
I’m surprised David Gyngell admitted to airing Dance Your Ass Off,you could tell by looking at the commercials it was never going to work very poor decision on his part

By: sam

sam — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:09:50 +0000

Once you have Pay Tv, you will find most of the FTA shows are full of craps. Overseas shows are really good and there are so many channels that you can choose. And Pay TV has many good locally made Australia shows like Project Runaway Australia, Selling Houses Australia, Satisfaction,Tangle and many more.

By: hey

hey — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:07:17 +0000

@ Jack i reckon a gardening/life style show for nine at 6:30 sundays, attracting an older audience away from sunday night on 7

By: Trent

Trent — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:53:59 +0000

Who would want to get Pay TV with all the choice you have now. Plus Pay TV is almost all overseas shows. Judging from the recent ratings, people want to be watching more australian content, so why would Pay TV rise when this issue is against them, plus the fact that it is not free?

By: sam

sam — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:04:42 +0000

No way Pay Tv will be flatten out, this guy is way behind time and he doesn’t knows what a thing!
Pay Tv will become better and stronger and FTA will be struggling as it’s happening in the world.

By: KFed

KFed — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:54:46 +0000

When Ten started out it was pretty much American programming wasn’t it? I think it is fair to say Go! is the new Ten, it’s just Ten circa 1965. I look forward to Go!’s version of Number 96.

By: Bella

Bella — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:54:19 +0000

GO! is really hit and miss for me. There are a few good shows, but Saturday nights .. Hogan Heroes? Why can’t they repeat some of the good old WB shows.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:17:35 +0000

Thanks for confirming Two & Half Men will be back in 2010…

By: daqua_99

daqua_99 — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:24:44 +0000

I can see where he is coming from, saying that pay-TV will flatten out. There are only going to be more and more channels launched in the upcoming years, which will make pay TV less and less attractive.

The networks could easily ‘kill’ pay-TV if they put their minds together. Aggressively pooling their resources into obtaining the rights to Australian sports would break the back of pay TV in this country. Imagine how many people would not renew their Foxtel subscription if, next year, Nine and Ten took the rights to all NRL games, Seven and Ten took the rights to all AFL games, and Ten (through One) and SBS got all international football (soccer) games.

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:41:56 +0000

Go! started off as a great channel but has been bastardised with random schedule changes and typical Nine-programming moves. Stop pi**ing off your audience, Nine, put Gossip Girl back on at a decent timeslot and quit screwing around. Oh yeah, and Gyngell looks like a bogan in that picture

By: David S.

David S. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:47:06 +0000

I’ve also been watching more GO! than Nine; the problem is I’m outside their target 14-39 demographic. Which goes to show how out of kilter their programming is for that channel – repeats of Frasier, Seinfeld and Hogan’s Heroes, et al are not 14-39 shows and every time I look at the guide for GO! (as unreliable and error-prone an activity as that is) I shake my head and wonder what they’re thinking, or drinking… However, as I watched virtually no Nine at all prior to GO! starting up I guess they’re somewhat better off than they were. Still, a youth channel it ain’t.

By: Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:37:33 +0000

@Tex. I read a lot and my fave international site is TV By The Numbers. Broadcast / FTA tv is going down hill. Look at the ratings for the top 10, five & ten years ago. 1.5million now would have been dismal then. Shows in the top 10 were 2.5millionish. These are the facts.
Cable tv in the US, UK, Germany, Italy and other developed places are booming. Murdoch has even made inroads with the Chinese Govt! (sorry,thats a whole other story).
The only critically acclaimed stuff is coming out of cable and that trend is happening here in Oz too, slowly but clearly.
I know numbers can be fiddled with and spun to suit who ever but this is a consistent and obvious trend.

By: tomothy

tomothy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:55:06 +0000

GO! has gone down hill rapidly. The over the air guide is completely incorrect, the content of shows has dropped since i it started (Get Smart, Hogans Heroes etc). I thought this was was supposed to be a youth channel. I guees they are looking for the youth of the 1960′s.
What is annoying me with GO! and Nine is the titles “Friday/Saturday Night Movie” on the guide, rather than the actual movie name.

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:31:13 +0000

I do not have pay tv and wont get it. Why should I? Repeats, commericals and movies arent on when we want to watch them. Yes I know the docos are good but what i dont see I dont miss. Its Free tv for me.