It’s still going.
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why did they cut it off FTA?
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they haven’t
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Well, they should hahaha.
Why?
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This thread gives me an aneurysm
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I say we should close it now. It’s obvious it is and will always be just a shopping channel.
Why is that a reason to close it? If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.
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Do you watch it?
No
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No one watches Studio 10 and it’s one of the most active threads on the board, somehow. Of course we’re not closing this thread.
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I still find it hilarious how this thread got hundreds of replies because people thought it would be another multichannel despite the writing on the wall that it would be a home shopping channel again.
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Do we actually know the story here in the end? What changed between Spree and Gecko, if it’s just a different operator, why would Ten not have bought it in house like Extra is for Nine or Gold for WIN.
TV4ME was the right format for this sort of channel - have scraps of normal programming that gives viewers a reason to keep the channel tuned in - to think that maybe occasionally something will be on there that isn’t an advetorial, in order to improve how many people will occasionally flip on and watch.
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Spree was a collaboration between 10 and Brand Developers. Gecko is all 10. That’s all.
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The idea was the hope that they’d be able to create “branded programming” that’d skirt around the narrowcast rules - I’m not sure if that worked out (especially as they were probably wanting full half-hour shows, not the 10-minute segments narrowcasting allowed) - and in the end, some of those types of things have ended up as filler on the actual multi-channels instead.
GOLD in WIN areas actually still do this, of course, but only because they have an infinity ton of Postcards / Destinations / Alive & Cooking to put on shuffle.
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Same in Regional QLD.
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Same in Canberra. I retuned my set top box 5 minutes ago to receive gecko.
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Wonder if it was a requirement of the new affiliation agreement 
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No doubt about it. 10 BOLD in HD should have been another requirement! Can anyone check?
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