Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:31 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

You sir are an utter & complete fool.
Do you really believe that ITV provides better broadcast fare than the BBC?
Do you really believe that ITV is free?
Are you prepared to pay Sky type subscriptions - in my case about £700 annually compared with £ 170 for the BBC?
The BBC is by no means perfect but it is better than most other providers across the globe that I've seen.
You clearly want a diet of crap reality shows & you probably deserve them.
Rant over.

The BBC is like the NHS, we should improve it not do away with it simply because its not perfect.

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:34 pm  

Mark_W wrote:

BBC > ITV

SPOTY over X factor anyday

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:44 pm  

Mark_W wrote:

SPOTY over X factor anyday

Watching Paint dry> scratching my eyeballs out> SPOTY> setting my hair on fire> Death> X factor

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:49 pm  

SPOTY live from the Leeds arena 2012 anyone???

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:56 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

You sir are an utter & complete fool.
Do you really believe that ITV provides better broadcast fare than the BBC?
Do you really believe that ITV is free?
Are you prepared to pay Sky type subscriptions - in my case about £700 annually compared with £ 170 for the BBC?
The BBC is by no means perfect but it is better than most other providers across the globe that I've seen.
You clearly want a diet of crap reality shows & you probably deserve them.
Rant over.

My opinion doesn’t make me a fool my friend. I’m forced by legislation, to purchase a T.V. licence. I have no choice, there is on consumer decision, there is no informed choice. I HAVE to buy a licence!

This means that the Been have no commercial pressure to produce quality programming, only an obligation which the continue to fail with.

Let’s take the Chris Moyles show on Radio 1. There is a staff of 14 to produce that particular show – 14. I have a friend that hosts a breakfast show on a commercial radio station which, in my opinion produces a quality output – this show has a staff of three.

Why does it take 14 people to produce one 3.5 hour show? Simple answer, it doesn’t but because there are no commercial constraints imposed they can continually be frivolous with my cash.

Their sport output is bordering on nonexistent and the little coverage they give to RL is poor by comparison.

You my friend are harping back to an era where there were only two channels and the BBC was outputting, by comparison, quality programming. Those days are long gone and Auntie needs to move with the times but, like yourself, they’re stuck in the past with absolutely no pressure to bring them into the 21st century.

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:59 pm  

Expecting to be nominated for team of the year for winning the league . How many thousands of teams have won their respective leagues across the country and not been nominated?

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:06 pm  

Wasnt expecting a nomination for the Rhinos , but the decision to give the award to the England cricket Team was a joke

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:23 pm  

stevos wig wrote:

Wasnt expecting a nomination for the Rhinos , but the decision to give the award to the England cricket Team was a joke

Cmon admit it, was you suprised?

I wont be suprised when they're in the New Years honours list either.

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:35 pm  

stevos wig wrote:

Wasnt expecting a nomination for the Rhinos , but the decision to give the award to the England cricket Team was a joke

They won the Ashes, it was always going to happen.

The biggest joke of the night was Fabio Capello getting the Coach of the Year. He's managed to get an England team, which was much better than all the other teams in their group, to qualify for the World Cup. Whippy do.

Re: BBC SPOTY Team award : Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:47 pm  

LS16_Rhino wrote:

My opinion doesn’t make me a fool my friend. I’m forced by legislation, to purchase a T.V. licence. I have no choice, there is on consumer decision, there is no informed choice. I HAVE to buy a licence!

You do have a choice. Admittedly that choice would leave you without a TV but still you do have a choice.

LS16_Rhino wrote:

This means that the Been have no commercial pressure to produce quality programming, only an obligation which the continue to fail with.

Let’s take the Chris Moyles show on Radio 1. There is a staff of 14 to produce that particular show – 14. I have a friend that hosts a breakfast show on a commercial radio station which, in my opinion produces a quality output – this show has a staff of three.

Why does it take 14 people to produce one 3.5 hour show? Simple answer, it doesn’t but because there are no commercial constraints imposed they can continually be frivolous with my cash.

Is that staff of 14 purely for the Chris Moyles or do some of them do jobs for the shows before or after as well?

LS16_Rhino wrote:

Their sport output is bordering on nonexistent and the little coverage they give to RL is poor by comparison.

The sport is covered fairly well on 5Live, and whilst their coverage to RL is very poor it is no different than any other media outlet.

LS16_Rhino wrote:

You my friend are harping back to an era where there were only two channels and the BBC was outputting, by comparison, quality programming. Those days are long gone and Auntie needs to move with the times but, like yourself, they’re stuck in the past with absolutely no pressure to bring them into the 21st century.

What like the quality churned out by ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky tonight?

ITV:
All star Family Fortunes
X Factor
I Dreamed a Dream - Susan Boyle

Channel 4:
Elf
The Worst Christmas Jobs in History
Come Dine with Me
Epic Movie

Channel 5:
Highland Emergency
Raid on Entebbe
Constantine
CCTV Cities

Sky One:
Simpsons
Futurama
Bones
Fringe

Some real quality there from the commercial channels. The best things are probably the re-runs of Simpsons.

If you seriously think that RL will get a higher priority on a commercial channel you're kidding yourself. We get p!ssed off at the lack of coverage by the BBC, well compare that to the total utter non-existent coverage on ITV, C4 and C5, and lets face it we only get some coverage on SKY because of the TV deal.