Posts Tagged ‘foxtel’

Televised Revolution podcast #122

May 21st, 2010 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 2 Comments
This is a fairly exciting week for television nerds. The week of the US TV network up-fronts is filled with excitement over the new TV season, combined with sadness and ...

ABC/Foxtel, Stewart/Colbert: 2010

March 1st, 2010 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 4 Comments
Without any fanfare, or even a press release ABC2 will commence screening The Daily Show. With The Daily Show at 19:15 each weeknight, followed by The Colbert Report at 19:40, ...

Televised Revolution Podcast #88

October 2nd, 2009 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 1 Comment
God this has been a great week for television. The pay television sector gets a shakeup and moves into the 21st century, meanwhile the free to air broadcast sector takes ...

Televised Revolution Podcast #64

April 28th, 2009 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
The Televised Revolution podcast returns for another week of awe inspiring television discussion. On this weeks show Dan and Simon discuss: *The soon-to-launch ABC3 dedicated kids station. *ICE TV vs Channel 9. *Foxtel launch ...

Freeview Roadblocks Again With Mixed Success

April 26th, 2009 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 1 Comment
Freeview launched the second phase of their (now re-vamped campaign) this evening with a new-look website and a roadblock TV advertisement across all of the Freeview channels. First of all, Televised ...

Save Chuck

April 22nd, 2009 | Posted by Dan Barrett | No Comments
Lets be honest: Most campaigns to save a TV show suck. The fans are usually exceedingly impassioned, while the show is generally middling. Jericho, I’m looking at you buddy! For me, ...

Iinet to launch Tivo Killer?

December 7th, 2008 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 5 Comments
When Tivo launched in Australia in mid 2008 it was billed as a revolution in television. The truth is, however, that so far it has proven itself to be nothing ...

Competition: Design Your Own Schedule

August 2nd, 2008 | Posted by Dan Barrett | 8 Comments
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 ...