Competition: Design Your Own Schedule

Early this week I encountered THIS article from The Australian in which Foxtel chief Kim Williams criticised his FTA counterparts for privately complaining about being forced into standard definition multi-channeling in 2008.

Multi-channeling is an amazing opportunity for networks to extend their brand to offer a new service for its customer base, but it also provides new revenue streams via additional time for advertising through traditional and innovative methods, and provides excellent competition to subscription television. Heck, this final point alone should be enough to warrant a desire to multi-channel. If FTA stations offer additional content that is compelling and a viable alternative, what need is there for viewers to subscribe to TV providers, or even download as much content from online?

Hearing these complaints has gotten me all riled up. It’s quite easy for a FTA station to extend their libraries to cater toward this new distribution method. And I would like to prove it is possible.

Thusly, Televised Revolution is launching a competition.

The nerdiest competition ever.

Pick a commercial FTA station. Either Channel 7, 9, or 10. Write up an entire weeks schedule for a multi-channel (preferably on an Excel spreadsheet, but any format will really suffice). And please include in your submission the listings for content that is airing that same week on the networks main analogue/digital channel. Submit your entries to us at competition@televisedrevolution.com.

The winner will receive a Mr T jigsaw puzzle.

The real reward is proving yourself to be a premier TV nerd.

Things to keep in mind:
*Make sure that you are creating alternative programing to what is currently on the standard analogue station. Time-shifting content is a perfectly valid programing methodology.
*Stick to shows that you believe that station has the rights to. You can include one or two shows that are fantasy choices, but please keep them to a minimum.

For a sample of what we are looking for, please click HERE.

Entries close August 31. Good luck!