Comments on: Pay TV slams FTA rebate

By: David Knox

David Knox — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:31:49 +0000

Sorry?

By: john

john — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:27:46 +0000

Please tell us, Mr Knox, why the newspapers should be given a free TV licence ?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:34 +0000

I don’t subscribe to pay-TV but I’d have to agree with ASTRA on this one.

It does seem to be just the Govt handing out pocket money to the networks who will just continue to cry poor and abuse viewers’ TV screens with intrusive advertising (plus more advertising that they don’t have to count as “advertising” thanks to concessions from ACMA just before Christmas), programming that can’t run to schedule, other programming that can’t stick to a schedule, and presenting advertorials and celebrity cross-promotion as “current affairs”.

I think it was Crikey that remarked that this rebate is being handed out in an election year.

By: TVLover

TVLover — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:30:24 +0000

Thanks to the Government, Foxtel have been allowed to run a monopoly for many years now, which has given them protection in the TV industry, and allowed them to build a highly profitable business with Very minimal restrictions on Australian content quotas.

By: Craig(Buzz)

Craig(Buzz) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:07:50 +0000

Yes made a comment yesterday regarding this,i would’nt have thought Foxtel would have been happy with this,and there’s the story.Certainly not a even playing field.Surely the Government can’t help year after year it’s got to stop sometime?Will it help there content on the Primary channel no not at all,makes no difference

By: H

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:00:49 +0000

Bails out the FTA, while allowing Foxtel to keep its paytv monopoly. Class

By: gsxrboy

gsxrboy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:34:40 +0000

Maybe it will give them a few bucks worth of change so we can have a full set of FTA channels through the satellite foxboxes, us poor people who miss out on the OneHD/CH9 stuff etc.

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:34:03 +0000

On second glance, the FTA’s don’t need a darn bailout. The government should be encouraging competition in the pay sector, to stop making ASTRA looking like it’s Foxtel in disguise. Once you have competition, the FTA’s can levy any fee it wants for carriage, due to the fact that there is no law against carrying local stations.