7flix - Programs and Schedules

SydneyCityTV · January 30, 2016, 1:38am

Because Seven and Nine absolutely hate each other (or seem to anyway). What other explanation can there be for both networks often copying each others concepts?

chuck · January 30, 2016, 3:55am

Wonder if prime7 will get this channel when 7 do?

cmo · January 30, 2016, 4:15am

So clearly seven need another channel to compete with 9 as 9life has been getting the network over the line all summer long.

Question is what will 10 do? Not like they have money to get content for a new channel. Seems they are destined to fall further and further behind.

pelican · January 30, 2016, 4:47am

Network loyalty is also massive here too. In the US, cross-promotion happens on rival networks as often as it does on the same network (often through talk shows). The reason is simple - they produce so many nightly shows and talk shows that they need to book slots, and networks would burn through their entire stable in a week if in-house was all they could get.
There’s also a lot of studios which make programming for other networks. (How I Met Your Mother was made by Fox but aired on CBS, for example)

Such a move here would be considered sacrilege. The only time a network star appears on a rival would be during disaster telethons or during the ABC’s Mental As.

I’ve noticed in the UK that talent can appear on multiple broadcasters at once. Lee Mack hosts a show on Sky1 and is a permanent panelist on the BBC’s WILTY. That guy with the annoying laugh appears all over the BBC and also hosts 8/10 Cats on C4. Attenborough does docos for both Sky and the BBC.

Radiohead · January 30, 2016, 6:24am

I agree… it would be nice to see a bit more of that “cross promotion” I guess.

I thought it was good to see Eddie McGuire being interviewed on TEN during the Big Bash semi-final last week, despite the fact that he was being interviewed in his capacity as the Stars president, not a Nine network personality …

But it was refreshing to see a Nine Network personality pop up on TEN.

freddiemoffat8 · January 30, 2016, 7:19am

I think they will release 2 new channels like Channel 9 did.

I hope they launch 7HD and a new dedicated FTA sport channel! 7Sport!

Here is what it would be like:

7: Channel 7
70: 7HD
71: Channel 7
72: 7TWO
73: 7mate
74: 7Sport (or whatever the “new channel” is)
75: RACING.COM
You might be asking “where is TV4ME?” well we have enough f**king shopping channels!
EDIT: RACING.COM doesn’t merge with 7Sport

AustralianAerial · January 30, 2016, 7:40am

That’s not going to happen.

freddiemoffat8 · January 30, 2016, 7:43am

Why not? It would still be using the racing deal that Seven scored. I guess 7Sport could be seperate from RACING.COM but it would save a channel space for 7.

AustralianAerial · January 30, 2016, 7:45am

Because the racing deal wasn’t for coverage on 7, 7Two, 7mate or any of the “channels of 7”; rather, it was Racing Victoria launching a rival to Sky Racing, and securing free-to-air carriage via Seven’s multiplexes.

I also don’t think 7Sport would happen as a standalone channel, after C7 and ONE HD’s respective demises.

freddiemoffat8 · January 30, 2016, 7:49am

I guess. Since it’s not a channel only the Seven Network created it would have to be cleared by Racing Victoria and I guess they won’t want that. Maybe 7Sport could still happen though but Fox Sports sort of owns that area.

SydneyCityTV · January 30, 2016, 7:49am

I think we’ll probably see something like this:

LCN-7 and 70: Channel Seven
LCN-70: Seven HD (in MPEG4 and of course, complete with an unnecessary “HD” watermark addition)
LCN-72: 7TWO
LCN-73: 7mate (in SD, of course)
LCN-74: 7Life, 7Home or a similarly named 9Life-clone
LCN-75: RACING.COM
LCN-76: TV4ME (in MPEG4)

Thoughts? Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an LCN shake-up of some sort with any new channel launches from Seven. And of course, I could be completely wrong but I’m only guessing here!

Hinca0488 · January 30, 2016, 7:55am

Would Prime7 discontinue ishoptv when channel 76/66 launches? Or would it make more room on it’s multiplex and degrade the quality of their other channels?

SydneyCityTV · January 30, 2016, 7:57am

My uneducated guess is that Prime7 would keep iShopTV and also not launch the new channels on Day 1 with the reach rules and technical limitations blamed as reasons.

CLEW9 · January 30, 2016, 10:25am

I think Ten, ABC and SBS aren’t too woried about cross-promoting other channels. The Project and Studio 10 often interview personalities from other networks and on several occasions plug when the program is airing and on what channel. Also ABC and Ten have more or less shared personalities- They must have a good relationship.

Seven and Nine just need to lighten up!

WAtvVideos · January 30, 2016, 10:41am

If it came down to getting rid of one home shopping channel, I reckon they would dump iShopTV. Prime part-owns 4ME and the content on it would be far more valuable with its almost national reach and occasional non-shopping programming.

Having said that, I had no bloody idea iShopTV was still around? So Prime in the eastern states do 3 x MPEG-4 channels? GWN7 still only has 4ME and Racing.com. While I’m on the subject, does Southern Cross (Seven) still carry Aspire TV alongside TVSN in their terrestrial markets, or did they dump it in favour of Racing.com?

SydneyCityTV · January 30, 2016, 10:44am

Yeah, it’s to my understanding that Prime7 in Regional NSW/Gold Coast/Victoria currently run 4ME, iShopTV and RACING.COM in MPEG4. Or at least that was the case when I was last in a Prime7 region back in November.

WAtvVideos · January 30, 2016, 10:49am

Thanks Still baffled as to why WA never received this channel.

Moe · January 30, 2016, 11:02am

The VAST retransmission sites presumably - I doubt they have the ability to let stations pass through as MPEG-4, so the capacity reasons that mean they don’t run them MPEG-2 everywhere means they can’t run them at all in WA?

Would be a potential problem for GWN if Seven launched a HD channel, or indeed whatever they’ve got planned for 76.

WAtvVideos · January 30, 2016, 11:11am

I don’t think that’s the reason, considering GWN7 already pass through 4ME and Racing.com from DVB-S2 MPEG-4 to DVB-T MPEG-4. VAST’s bandwidth and red tape also don’t seem to be factors because of the existence of these channels as well as Gold and Extra via WIN. Seems like Prime just decided to not launch iShopTV in WA for whatever reason.

Brekkie · January 30, 2016, 5:31pm

OK, so in replying to this post discovered individual posts can have replies that don’t show in the main thread timeline.

Anyway, back to this and exclusivity is something that the UK networks have moved away from in recent years. There are a handful of top stars still on golden handcuff deal but on the whole it’s not something the UK industry is paying money for. Sport has now pretty much dropped the idea too of exclusive anchors for a channel which is actually working out well for the audience with broadcasters not restricted by channel loyalties.

Claire Balding, a BBC face for years through to the 2012 Olympics then went on to host the Paralympics on C4 and fronted their racing coverage, as well as having a chat show on BT Sport and continuing to host events on the BBC. She may ot may not follow racing to ITV next year - but if she does it’s highly unlikely it’ll be exclusive.

Similarly with rugby for last years Rugby World Cup ITV’s coverage was led by the BBC’s long term anchor of the Six Nations with commentators, pundits and reporters pulled from the BBC, Sky and BT Sport. It was easily their best coverage ever of the tournament. Now the BBC and ITV will share coverage of the Six Nations with BBC’s coverage anchored by John Inverdale (who hosted ITV’s World Cup coverage) and ITV’s led by Mark Pougatch - one of the BBC’s main radio anchors.