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Sunday, August 15, 2010
BREAKING. TopTV on the building
viewer backlash and the growing
number of complaints about
repeats: ''That's how pay TV
works.''
You're reading it
here first.
It's started. The
number of TopTV
subscribers are
growing who
are increasingly
becoming disillusioned and upset
with the amount of repeat TV
programming on the channels of On
Digital Media's (ODM) new pay TV
platform. TopTV's answer is that
repeat blocks of programming is
simply how pay television works.
Similar to what MultiChoice's
DStv has now endured for years,
viewers who've signed up to
ODM's TopTV are starting to get
more vocal about the increasing
number of repeats, reruns and
rebroadcasts on various TopTV
channels, especially the Fox channels
such as Fox Retro (TopTV 181), Fox
Entertainment (TopTV 180) and Top
Crime (TopTV 301). Of course it's
now three months since ODM
launched TopTV in May which is in
pay TV terms approximately the
duration of the first repeat window
cycle (there's usually another one at
six months and again at a year).
''TopTV subscribers are saying 'but
I've seen this already', but that's
how pay TV works,'' Elouise Kelly,
ODM chief marketing officer tells me.
''Repeats over a period of time is
how pay TV is structured. It's
impossible for any TV channel to be
repeats free. Repeats are structured
and scheduled so as to make the
repeating convenient for you as the
viewer. In terms of the Top Movies
channels [Top Movies (TopTV 100),
Top Movies +2 (TopTV 101) and Top
Movies +24 (TopTV 102)] that is why
we're repeating the movies to give
viewers the opportunity to watch it
at their convenience and it works,''
she says.
About TopTV's electronic
programme guide (EPG) that started
out disastrously at its May launch
and is slowly getting better, Elouise
Kelly says ''people are saying 'We
don't have a physical magazine TV
guide. Why can't you send me a
monthly magazine with a TV guide?'
but we're saying the EPG is your TV
guide. And now it works really well.
Many people who are now TopTV
subscribers did not have pay TV
before, so they don't really now yet
how informative an on-screen EPG
can be,'' she says. ''We're planning
on doing a lot of communication in
regard to TopTV's EPG and the use of
the EPG soon.''

source: TV WITH THINUS
 
they must not come and take us for fools, in the last 4 months silver has the same movies every day dis sci has relooped every month and top movies is the same movie on all three channels not only day after day but month after month
 
Does TopTV have local specific
channels? Like Kyknet on DSTV?

No local only sabc they dont even have a afr channel
 
fearfactor season 1 episode 1 catch it now while its on repeat for the 4th time.
 
Spyral-RSA said:
Sunday, August 15, 2010 BREAKING. TopTV on the building viewer backlash and the growing number of complaints about repeats: ''That's how pay TV works.''

''TopTV subscribers are saying 'but I've seen this already', but that's how pay TV works,'' Elouise Kelly,
ODM chief marketing officer tells me. source: TV WITH THINUS
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Why doesn't someone chain E. Kelly to an uncomfortable chair and show her the same movie each time ''Top'' TV repeat it, day-in-day-out.
I'm sure they'll change their repeat policy soon enough - not that DStv or the channels on their service (National Geographic, Discovery, Zone Reality etc.) are much better.
 
BayCityRoller said:
Why doesn't someone chain E. Kelly to an uncomfortable chair and show her the same movie each time ''Top'' TV repeat it, day-in-day-out.
I'm sure they'll change their repeat policy soon enough - not that DStv or the channels on their service (National Geographic, Discovery, Zone Reality etc.) are much better.
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If you find yourself complaining about the repeats on DSTV's doccie channels then you're probably watching too much TV. They have really great new stuff everyday on there, and the blood diamond stuff this weekend is really good.
 
R13... said:
If you find yourself complaining about the repeats on DSTV's doccie channels then you're probably watching too much TV. They have really great new stuff everyday on there, and the blood diamond stuff this weekend is really good.
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I know they have 'new stuff', but it doesn't necessarily interest everyone, and what I'm specifically referring to (though didn't mention it originally) are the same repeats they showed 6 months, 1 year & 2 years ago. Things they originally showed on for e.g. Discovery Channel are now making an appearance on Discovery World, and National Geographic have shown the same things numerous times, over a period of years.
 
The bottom line for me is top tv and dstv can go phuck them selfs i'll watch sabc & e-tv then take out the latest dvd's and I will rent the boxsets of series I want to watch. and it will still work out cheaper and i get to watch shows that I want to see

our dvd shop has boxsets for R18.00 per season and latest dvd movies R15.00 per movie and dvd's in R10.00 and R5.00 and the movies top tv show us in the R2.50 zone
 
they are taking this repeats to a whole new level ... they repeat shows like seinfeld, sg1, simpsons all day and then they start again each month ... that is way too much repeats!!!
I can understand the repeating everyday, but not again the next month, and the month after that!! especially when they still only showing season 1 of each show.
when do they get to season 2?? at this rate ... I am probably going to change to the minimum package (if not cancel altogether)
 
... I remember people moaning about DSTV repeats. Is it worse than that?
 
lucifir said:
they are taking this repeats to a whole new level ... they repeat shows like seinfeld, sg1, simpsons all day and then they start again each month ... that is way too much repeats!!!
I can understand the repeating everyday, but not again the next month, and the month after that!! especially when they still only showing season 1 of each show.
when do they get to season 2?? at this rate ... I am probably going to change to the minimum package (if not cancel altogether)
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I felt the same. We were totally disgusted. The shows like SG1 are from 1998. There are tons of episodes made since then. Absolutely no need to repeat this old programming. The only way to voice your disgust is to tell them is a strongly worded e-mail and to cancel for a period of months. We are switched off and may just turn on the R99 bundle in November. TopHistory, TopExplore and TopCrime(vomit) are packaged in Europe. I would have hoped for a set of quality channels, but they are weak, poor and repeated to death.
 
Spyral-RSA said:
The bottom line for me is top tv and dstv can go phuck them selfs i'll watch sabc & e-tv then take out the latest dvd's and I will rent the boxsets of series I want to watch. and it will still work out cheaper and i get to watch shows that I want to see

our dvd shop has boxsets for R18.00 per season and latest dvd movies R15.00 per movie and dvd's in R10.00 and R5.00 and the movies top tv show us in the R2.50 zone
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I am thinking the exact same thing. Red Carpet Movies has this special - you pay R80 per month and can one as many "old" category movies that you want - and the programming on E-TV is definitely better than that on Top One, Top Crime etc

Will miss family guy and scrubs though... But then again - I can always rent it :whistle:
 
I am not the devils advocate but...

Spyral-RSA said:
they must not come and take us for fools, in the last 4 months silver has the same movies every day dis sci has relooped every month and top movies is the same movie on all three channels not only day after day but month after month
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The article is a little biased because it chooses to quote a statement that was said in a context where the question of how the repeats are being run was not being answered. The statement that I heard (from TopTV) about a week ago with regards to the repeats is that they are repeating the programmes because TopTV's subscriber base has grown from 15000 (active - i.e. up and running) subscribers (my estimate with all the installation problems they had then) in May to more than 120,000 today. They are repeating the programmes so that the 110,000 or so newer subscribers also see the series from episode ones.

With regards the repeating of movies every day and every month, a statement came out when they began operating that there will be less and less repeats as they accummulate more and more content. So, in the beginning, we should practically expect lots of repeats.

Having said that, I feel that they are not repeating '4400' enough or appropriately. I cannot watch the first screening because it clashes with the news at 19h00 and 22h00 is too late for me. The next and last repeat is at 10h00 the following day (Wednesday). Why don't they also show it on Sundays like DStv does with 'V' at 12h00 or similar times.
 
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Dolby said:
... I remember people moaning about DSTV repeats. Is it worse than that?
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MUCH worse.
DSTV have many repeats but they always have a prime-time slot where new content is shown. TopTV do not seem to have this slot and as such, they've simply started repeating the exact same shows in the exact same time-slots.
 
Surprises me how many people still believe they can get tv without repeats.

Every channel in the world repeats stuff. I have yet to come across 1 channel which has fresh content every single hour of every single day.

Get over it already people. You dont like repeats, go rent like one poster suggested, or download.
 
catweasel said:
Surprises me how many people still believe they can get tv without repeats.
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I think everyone knew about and expected. It just sounds like they didn't expect as many
 
catweasel said:
Surprises me how many people still believe they can get tv without repeats.

Every channel in the world repeats stuff. I have yet to come across 1 channel which has fresh content every single hour of every single day.

Get over it already people. You dont like repeats, go rent like one poster suggested, or download.
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Repeating a show is standard practice. Most channels have 'repeat schedules' which determine how often a show will be repeated and at what times.

What TTV have done is repeat EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.
 
Kheiron said:
Repeating a show is standard practice. Most channels have 'repeat schedules' which determine how often a show will be repeated and at what times.

What TTV have done is repeat EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.
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It is like they have no money to buy more content?
 
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