At first thought just a bad play-out script error, but has happened a few weeks in a row now (or longer?) Could it still be a glitch or intentional?
After the line-up thing at the end of Big Brother, instead of going straight into CIA (as the line-up even says "starting now in 3… 2… 1…) it instead goes to a Seven News update and ad break.
Nice way to lose viewers, although can anyone see a strategy here? However, ratings don’t appear to have been affected for CIA. It’s strange.
You really didn’t understand what I was talking about? All I was mentioning was Seven cut to an ad break after BB instead of starting the next program CIA (as they usually would and the line-up animation also indicated), it’s a way to lose viewers and was just a strange placement. I wondered whether there’s a systemic system error or whether it is intentional.
It is a very strange strategy that I’ve notice as well.
Seven runs a countdown to the start of the next program and then right when the countdown says the program will start a News Update comes on. That is followed by a promo for the 6pm news followed by 3 minutes of ads followed by another Seven promo.
Why are they making such a definite break between programs; it’s an invite to change channels or switch off, aside from the obvious misinformation about when the following program starts.
I’ve noticed this happening on Nine before L&O: Organised Crime. Found it odd flow, goes against the reason of not running idents or end credits of programs.
Exactly, definitely! Well done on capping those too.
Yes, this is true, Nine on the other hand have been doing this strategy for many years before the commencement of the 8:30pm program, going to a news update (as well as the news update sponsor before and after and sometimes a promo), but definitely doesn’t go for 3mins, usually all done within a minute or 30sec.
Not that anyone in Western Australia is actually watching Surveillance Oz on the main channel right now (they’re all glued to 7mate), but just in case:
A rare end of movie split-screen on a multi-channel (always just cuts to studio ender). In this case, it was a sneak peek with cast interviews for upcoming F&F 9 - this broadcast of course was originally scheduled to be played-out on the main channel in three markets.
As with the Seven “Mahna Mahna” promo in early 1979, I wonder if they did one for BTQ-7 with Mike Higgins? The Perth and Sydney versions with Peter Waltham and Roger Climpson are already on YouTube.
But as I’ve said before and no doubt will again, it’s sad that the TV man is still a CRT.
Most people are watching flatscreens in 2021, so IMO it was a missed opportunity not to use the “50 Years of Maccas” Ident to introduce an updated, flatscreen 16.9 Channel Seven TV man!
But then that will be seen as the TV man being too thin which will then mean that the CRT was being fat-shamed! It’s ok to be who you are, whether that’s LCD, Plasma, CRT or even if you still have some old valves! and let’s not even get into what input source is best these days!
