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After the recent 'shuffling' of channel Numbers I appear to have Fox News on my Panasonic FTA Rx.
Any confirmation this is permanent.
Any confirmation this is permanent.
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Well,it is FOX NEWS,we're talking about,after all :eek:
Surely nobody wants to submit themselves to US propaganda!
My thoughts exactly...and who owns Fox ??
Panny- No
Pace- Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):)
1/3!
It's not a propaganda channel, it's a news channel & a good one at that!
If you don't like it fine, but it's not Blairs or Bushes channel
You sure about that???
Of course i'm sure.
You should try watching it sometimes.
Ok what is so bad & funny about it?
Well they can't show the commercials, so they have to put something on & you can't put everywhere on a map. But i will concede that some of the places chosen are strange.
Example being Newquay but not Cardiff, but it's a very minor thing
Cough, splutter....are you serious or winding us up?... :eek:
There appears to be 2 transmissions of Fox New on
11720 & 12070
Which one is supposed to be FTA?
Of course i'm serious. Fox News is a very good news channel
If you have a SERIOUS problem with that, let's hear it
Quite agree, it's the main reason I turn to another station, drives me mad, is there a reason why they don't have adverts, seems stupid.
We get the American feed & they can't put out the adverts. There are several reasons for this:
1. Advertisers would have to pay for the rights to air the commercials across the world. That is pay the voice over artists more & more for any music.The cost would be horrendus.
2./ Some of the products are not sold in this country, which would break OFCOM broadcasting rules
3. Some products are advertised on American TV that are not allowed to be advertised here, such as prescription medicines
But why would you want to want to watch adverts for Wendys or the new Chrysler car that you can't buy.
I accept the map isn't ideal, but with around 18 mins an hour of commerical time to fil, what elses are you going to put on
I don't have a " SERIOUS " problem with anything on TV, least of all Fox News.
I realise that they can't show Amercan adverts on the station, but why on earth can't they sell advertising space and have some normal commercials in place of continual weather forecasts, or at last find something better to fill the breaks with.
Well as they broadcast Fox News around the world, i would guess that selling commercials in all those different countries/regions would require loads of sales people in different countries, to say nothing of playing out different commercials to different countries and making sure they all balance time-wise with what's happening in America.
What happens if you do if you fill the log for Europe, but not for Asia?.You still have to fill that time with promos/weather etc until America is ready.
It's all just too hard for a channel that just wants to broadcast it's news service around the globe. This way, they just send the weather to each satellite and cut it when the break is over in America
It's not ideal, but it's cheaper, easier & there's less potential for a cock up this way