The death of television....

Yeah I work in sales for one of the networks and have been and still am involved with launching some of the multi channels.

So if I'm watching the last hour of a movie and I time (with a stopwatch) more than 14 minutes of ads, it's illegal.??..I inform the regulators and the station will cop a hefty fine.??.. pull the other one.....

Why do you want boys to call you??????
Dirty old man with a pocket full of lollies.lol

With all these media related types in this thread, I'm sure somebody can tell me how the channels get their ratings and work out how many people watch their shows. Surely they have no way of telling every time you change channel. Do they rely on phone ins, do they have a roomfull of people in India randomly calling households, asking what channel you're wathcing?

This clip featuring some very credible people including a professor that is quite hot ( doggie) demonstrates how screwed up TV actually is:

The link that Gizmo put up is only relevant for some regional markets like SA and NT. All major cities and other regional areas are done by people metres. Nielsen use census data to figure out what the population make up is and distribute these metres so that they get a true representation of the population. Obviously not everyone gets a metre so there is some scaling that goes on, but the data they receive is indicitive of the entire population of that market. People are given incentives to take part and if you are seen to only be watching one station you get a please explain and possibly taken out of the sample. The ratings data can come in a number of different forms, minute by minute, 15 minute averages or averaged for the program. To register that you are watching a station you have to be watching for atleast 1 minute at the bottom of the minute, if you have a metre that is.

You are not suggesting there is a conspiracy going on are you japs.

So it's similar to foxtel iq? Do you still pay for subscription? I canned foxtel cause of the ads, don't want to pay money to watch that shi$&@

No conspiracies Cisco! Just plain common sense.

A fair while back I posted about fetal alchohol syndrome, and how I believed that the truth was being kept from the populace.

I found one artical in the Sydney Morning Herald recently, the only one I have ever seen. Thinking about it, it is easy to see why, if you take note of the amount of money that is spent on advertising by the booze industry. The last thing you would do as an advertiser is bag the product that is paying your way.

Bit like warning prospective buyers of your house that you are leaving because the neighbours are arseholes, it ain't going to be productive.

If you want to get the bottom of something that is perplexing, follow the money!

the ads on pay tv take forever. I hate em.

I Love free to air and the new channels and I dont mind the ads at all. I have a finely tuned add gap sense and I end up watching several shows at once.