At the very least Channel 7 and 9 faithfully run shows (even with lackluster ratings) till their end (if sometimes they put it at a terrible timeslot ala *30 rock*)

No wonder why Channel 10 is the worst commercial TV channel. They put on crappy reality shows (especially Big Brother), and not only that, they spam us to death with them. A couple at a time is fine, but not every bloody month. Even the ABC beats them often with ratings, (though thats prob due to Doctor Who).

Seriously Ten needs new movies in the repitore, seriously I’ve seen Ice age Meltdown like 5 times in the past year, its a good movie but overplayed, people are going to get sick of them. And what does that equal, you guess it lower ratings. Either repeat movies that haven’t been played as often (if money is an issue), or get new ones, it’s not that hard.

At the very least bring back 10HD.

Sadly I fear dear Channel 10 the time has come for us to part ways. You have nothing to offer me and I know that any new shows scheduled to screen on your channel this you that might look interesting will only last an episode or two before they are randomly rescheduled or dropped from the line up. So I ask myself – what is the point of making the effort to watch them. Farewell Channel 10. One day reality tv will fall out of favour with the Australian public and your station will be a lonely desolate place.

but, everyone makes mistakes,
channel 10 just makes 35463208461098347.

Stay on the subject, fewer than expected watched SN and that results in no scheduling or at best a late timeslot. No one is defending Ten but bringing some perspective other than “how can Ten do this???” nonsense.

People watched it on the web then avoided the FTA broadcast or didn’t bothered at all. If Ten cut it after 800 or 900k then fair eniugh but cheap mindless crap is outrating so that’s the real answer, nothing more nothing less. Will it rate better elsewhere or on Paytv – no, but they might not care or have bills to pay.

- Advertise it in timeslots relating to the demographic of the show being advertised
- Not overdoing the advertising
- Sticking to the timeslot, not changing and swapping things around. This means getting the timeslot right from the start!
- Starting the programme when advertised, and finishing the programme at the advertised time. Starting a show at 20:40 instead of 20:30 as advertised may mean the person finds something interesting to watch on another station.
- Fasttracking shows is Vital. I mean preferably within a few days of it shown in the US, not even a couple of weeks.
- Not cutting bits out of the programme to fit in more ads (happens sporadically across all the networks), its more clipping the bits off before the allotted space for the ad.
- Not putting advertising across the bottom of the screen for other shows. That (insert expletive here) off viewers and even if it is fasttracked many will still download a ‘clean’ copy from the internet.
- Bring back the old say, 7pm to midnight tv programme guide breaks for the current day, and even say have, ‘tomorrow night on channel 10′. Hey that way instead of advertising one crappy show they have on they get to advertise all the crappy shows on that night and the following night

Fasttracking is critical, top shows are very easily downloaded and fans will resort to downloading them instead of even waiting a week to view it.

The worst thing is, we can’t even legally buy the DVDs for this current season because it’s still airing in the US.