I often wonder whether people actually use the up and down buttons on their TV remotes…
The reason I say this, i’ve seen my parents and my grandparents just type in the channel number they want and not flick.
For my parents at least, I know that they do this because they can’t stand having to flick through all of the radio and shopping channels; so they just type in the number because that’s quicker.
There’s probably other people like this as well.
For people like that, this affiliation change is going to be hectic as they’re not gonna know where to go.
My parents (in RQLD) turn on the TV, push 5 to watch Nine or 7 to watch Seven.
Doing that tonight is going to confuse them
But in saying that, these past five years have really just been an aberration. It has now switched back to the way it used to be. I’m sure the vast majority were watching tv five-plus years ago.
I generally press the numbers, knowing what I want to watch, then if I want to see what is happening on the network’s other channels, THEN I’ll press up or down.
I don’t think all the people are that stupid. In fact, I reckon the second one there mentioning about the affiliation agreement and that 9Life will be back in August was super helpful and from an extremely intelligent person. In fact, I reckon it was from the most intelligent person in that entire thread on Facebook trying to clarify some of the misinformation on there!
I don’t think so either. I’m just trying to point out that there are certainly going to be a lot of people who don’t understand. As others have said, others here don’t seem to understand that there are some people in the population who don’t know how to remove channels on their TVs, etc.
Truth be told, I don’t, and don’t want to, it doesn’t make sense to me, regardless if I don’t want to watch the channel now, I may do so at some stage in the future.
During Master Chef tonight, news update seemed to have been made for south east Queensland. The weather map came but only Noosa’s temp was mentioned. Unexpected but good move by ten to add a little localised news.
They were given plenty of notice. WIN warned them at the very start 9Life was not going to be available for sometime. It takes a bit of arrangements to get extra channels up and running and it takes time
The video you posted highlights how Nine did SCA viewers (but not SCA themselves) a favor by alerting them of the channel change. It prevented a situation of an unexplained (to them) end to Wimbledon coverage at midnight
Yes. Pity the metro viewers where 9HD is approx 4.0 (incl Dolby sound).
NRL is on tonight, so the allocations may change later. 6.0 seems very extravagant for the WIN SD channel (esp since they have avoided advertising it in the affiliation change) - could be better used for the tennis on 9Gem.