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14 Oct 2003, 23:48 (Ref:751542)
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And the real winner is...
Channel 10!!
Their fantastic SMS trivia do-dad appartently saw a million SMSs sent throughout the weekend. At 55c a pop, that adds up to a bloody lot of dollars! But the champion bit of it all was that they gave out a prize of $5000. Bloody lot of dollar minus five grand equals channel 10 as the big winner of the weekend! Kudos to all involved, it was a great team effort....   BTW- who entered it, and what the freckle was it? |
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14 Oct 2003, 23:53 (Ref:751546)
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Ch 10 don't get the whole 55c - 20 or 25c goes to your phone company (depending on who you are with).
But I agree - which is why I refuse to enter any competition like this that forces a charge on you (read the fine print Woods said - sure, if you have a 500 cm screen to be able to view it on...) Last edited by RaceTime; 14 Oct 2003 at 23:54. |
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14 Oct 2003, 23:55 (Ref:751549)
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Don't ask me what it was all about, SMS is one part of technology i haven't caught up on.
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14 Oct 2003, 23:57 (Ref:751555)
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RT- i liked that "read your fine print", but it was pt0.000005 size font, and blurry at that! Maybe i just need my eyes tested....
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14 Oct 2003, 23:58 (Ref:751556)
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Hey I did one of those things recently where you SMS your details to somewhere or other and won first prize... which was a LOT more than the 55c! Which work paid for anyway
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15 Oct 2003, 08:54 (Ref:751858)
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15 Oct 2003, 09:31 (Ref:751882)
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I won't enter them as I don't want to get spammed on my sms.
And I have a wonderful program from Telstra for my ADSL that lets me send SMS's from my computer. It's a lot easier to type on, that's for sure. |
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15 Oct 2003, 14:44 (Ref:752225)
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yeah i entered , it was fun answering the questions and most were fairly simple if you knew a bit about the sport.
you had 2 minutes to send your answer which was fine but after a while it became a joke because the lines clogged up and they didnt recieve your answer for 20 - 30 mins as everyone who SMS's knows what this is like, so the reply came back "sorry dude thought you had chickened out you are we didnt get your answer in time and disqualified you" I didnt bother after that. |
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16 Oct 2003, 12:38 (Ref:753197)
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My hubby entered on Saturday only to be horribly disappointed. 1 of his questions was
Who is the ford driver leading the champion points? He replied Marcos Ambrose. His reply was sorry wrong (what the..) Markus Ambrose Lets just say he was spewing... |
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16 Oct 2003, 12:45 (Ref:753212)
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I thinx he may have some recourse about that one,
and I thinx so might Marcos; as I understand it he's a little cranky with people getting it wrong
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16 Oct 2003, 14:38 (Ref:753333)
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My phone was too busy texting people at the track and around the country to enter that comp.... I wasted nearly 50 bucks in the process, but hey it was worth it!
Did anyone get the final scores? Did the Holden fans manage to double that of Ford?
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16 Oct 2003, 21:46 (Ref:753738)
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Were pretty far ahead at any stage I think.
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16 Oct 2003, 21:51 (Ref:753744)
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Last time the screens 'round the track showed it, it was getting pretty bloody close.
I know certain Ford boffins were cringing at the site of it |
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16 Oct 2003, 23:19 (Ref:753846)
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I entered 3 times, sorry make that tried to enter 3 times!
I SMS'd the word 'play' to the number and nothing happened. I bet though the 55c or whatever a call WILL show up on my next bill. The best rort was the 'Uplate Big Brother' quiz. 55c cents to enter even if you didn't get through! These comps are a great money spinner for the TV production companies. |
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17 Oct 2003, 09:15 (Ref:754156)
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I was too busy watching a motor race to bother with teenager-targeted periphery distractions.
How could anyone look away from the screen for a second? Oh, yeah the ad breaks... |
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17 Oct 2003, 09:27 (Ref:754176)
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What ad breaks? Only 221 adverts shown.
OPh - and only 131 laps of the race as well 
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17 Oct 2003, 09:30 (Ref:754178)
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Well you know what they say, the TV show is only there to separate the ads.
I still like that suggestion about keeping the TV feed going in the corner of the screen with ad in the rest of it. |
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18 Oct 2003, 08:04 (Ref:754947)
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And didnt RT get a nice write up in today's Daily Telegraph as well for pointing that little piece of information out
You are certainly becoming a star RaceTime... MN earlier in the week, DT today
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18 Oct 2003, 11:44 (Ref:755026)
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Ummm what??? You are kidding I hope? Any chance of a link or scan??
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18 Oct 2003, 13:44 (Ref:755076)
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Yeah I wanna see this!
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18 Oct 2003, 15:49 (Ref:755167)
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I want to know, I did not even see 10 laps of the race.
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19 Oct 2003, 01:26 (Ref:755453)
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph has a "Cars Guide" supplement, and on p6 of that part of the paper, written by Ray Kershler, in the top RH corner is written:
"TV ADS COVER 23 LAPS * So you watched the Bob Jane T Marts Bathurst 1000 on Channel 10. Well, most of it. The website www.racetime.com.au did a bit of maths and worked out they didnt watch as much of the race as they thought. The website added up the number of ads and the amount of time Channel 10 gave over to ads. Overall there were seven periods where the ad break was four minutes or longer. All in all viewers missed 23 laps as the network showed 221 ads." So RaceTime is getting more and more famous by the minute.... |
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19 Oct 2003, 02:38 (Ref:755476)
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 - Crazy - I got the basic stats from an email last Monday after the info was posted here. All I did for the RaceNews Digest was to summarise it and split the data up a little more.Tony will NOT be happy over this
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19 Oct 2003, 02:52 (Ref:755481)
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Here's hoping it increases traffic to your site RT and you can make it commercially viable in its own right
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19 Oct 2003, 02:54 (Ref:755482)
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I cant recall ever having seen RaceFax quoted in a major metropolitan newspaper...
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