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12 Oct 2011, 00:26 (Ref:2969579) | #1 | ||
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Channel 7 commercials
I know this has been beaten to death but really does anyone know why channel 7 can get coverage awards with 5 lap/10 minutes of showing racing and then 4-5 minutes of commericals from the start to end of Bathurst (let alone the rest of the years stuff)?
you can use the it's not pay tv thing but One does NASCAR with not that many commercials? couldn't they just charge more for the space and do less commericals, they'd still make the same money? I would have thought that if you have less commercials then it'd pay off better being that people don't completely switch off because of the 10 they show every 5 minutes? although after watching Bathurst I now know what the fashion will be at the races this year, which I'm sure was targeted at much of the Bathurst watching viewers..... |
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need to get access to the stats like they do for Nascar to do some comparisons unless someone else wants to put in the effort to log it all..
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I think you will find that the average amount of time between adverts hasn't changed in over 20 years. I think someone over at v8 central did a comparison between 90,00 and 10 Bathursts and it was pretty much the same.
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What may have changed is that the adverts were more consisent in frequency, now we might see 20 minutes of racing then adverts followed by 6 minutes of racing then more adverts. |
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13 Oct 2011, 05:22 (Ref:2970247) | #8 | ||
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i live out of Sydney metro, and only get prime and 7mate on prime, We got normal add and full-on infomercials during the coverage.
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I noted that at least last year and the year before the bigpond on line feed had no adds so if you had your laptop handy your could watch that (albeit 30 seconds delayed) while the add breaks were on and could watch the track video with no audio feed. This year was a re transmission of Sydney 7 mate (said a few words you cant say in front of the kids when I found that out) so they are getting every possible revenue stream in!!
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Here is something to think about, WTF cant they do the commercials like the supercheap one where its just a screen off to the right but the race is still being shown on the left???? why can't they do it that way??
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14 Oct 2011, 04:34 (Ref:2970826) | #11 | ||
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or the fake norton and bigpond signs in the cutting? they just look cheap...
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I haven't watched a V8 Supercar race "live" for almost 5 years now. Get yourself some sort of PVR like a Topfield or I'm currently using windows media centre running through an xBox360. Set up to record the races and then don't start watching until the race is about 1/2 an hour or so in. Skip through the adds while the race is running and hopefully you won't catch up to the telecast before the end of the race. Even if you know what time the race starts using timeshifting pause the race, take the dog for a walk, make some popcorn and then sit down to an ad free race. We even did it for Bathurst last year, we had a BBQ and a late night the night before hand and then didn't start watching the races until about 11:30. We had enough buffer so we didn't have to watch a single ad all day. Life's too short to spend it watching commercials especially nowadays when they're so easy to avoid. |
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They were fake alright. I think they used to have computer generated billboards and on-track signage during the Supertourer telecasts a decade ago.
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I remember that well, that was when Channel 7 raped the mountain. There were dodgy signs dubbed in all over the place, even in the middle of the road.
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but i'm sure they'll get a aeward for bathurst coverage somehow
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If I've paid $10'000 for my 30 second TVC then damn it I want it to get 100% attention. Remember the reason for a Commercial Television Network to exist is purely to sell Television Commercials, it is not to provide entertainment for you. If TV stations could get you to watch without providing any entertainment at all yet still attract viewers they would. We call this the Channel Nine principle. |
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I could stomach that. But the absolute embarrasment of ads this year was nothing short of disgraceful. I understand the reality of a commerical operation, but that was just ridiculous. Over the top. We watched the F1 coverage after the race, and wondered where the ads were. Sure they had them, but in comparison it felt like none. There needs to be some alternative. Not everyone can make it to the track to watch it live. |
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virtual add thing at the MCG for a gayfl final. They got pulled into line PDQ. |
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The ACMA code of practice allows for 16 minutes of adverts per hour. We may not like it but it has been this way for a number of years. |
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If chavez and DV_08 are right about ther being the same amount of time for ads as there was 20 years ago, it's just they're smaller but more frequent, then I suggest going back to how it was. No way, did it feel like as much of an interruption as it did then. When you think how much "effort" is being put into gaining attention from people with a minimal interest, I can't think of anything that is more likely to extuinguish interest from anybody who doesn't care that much already than the high frequency of commercials.
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