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Corby vs Seven: The Battle Begins

News this morning that Mercedes Corby is planning to sue Channel 7 will no doubt see the network tied up in another useless court battle.

via The Age

Second Half of Seven’s Year

Seven just announced the second half line up which includes the new series of Kath & Kim and this interesting bit of news:

Seven’s Director of Programming and Production, Tim Worner said: “From the feedback we’ve been getting from fansites and blogs, the message has been very clear – now from Seven we’re sending a message back – the waiting is over.”
“We’ll be running Prison Break and Heroes as close to their US telecast dates as practically possible.
“Sure, we have to change the way we take delivery of the materials but it’s more than that – we have to change the way we think and the way we sell these shows and at Seven we’ve shown we can do that.”

Has somebody hit them on the head and knocked some sense into them?

Seven and TiVo have come together to bring the much sought after TiVo service to Australia.

WTF? They should have done this years ago and it seems, from the media release, that it’s only going to be available for free-to-air channels.

Seven Media Group will lead the creation of the digital platform to enable TiVo’s digital video recorder and service, including the award-winning TiVo user interface. The platform will be available for use by other broadcasters and broadband content owners to create a compelling, interactive, free to air digital terrestrial television offering. The TiVo Service will be available across Australia and will include internationally recognized TiVo features like SeasonPass recordings and WishList searches and allow users to access broadband content on their TV.

Honestly, if they were going to do this, why wouldn’t they try to make it a competitor to Foxtel’s IQ? Of course Seven, along with Ten, is still to sign up to digital rebroadcast through Foxtel.

Having two platforms competing for our attention would only be better for the consumers (us) and build uptake of such technologies.

TiVo, in the US, is a subscription-based service but gives its users access to all channels (pay and FTA). Will the people not taking up Foxtel be compelled enough to dive into this? Probably not if the FTA networks aren’t going to produce some amazing content.

Also, it seems to me that a large percentage of the population who would have been the first to take up a TiVo service have already purchased a PVR, built a media centre, download torrents, or have IQ.

Surprise Surprise Naomi?

Last week we heard about a possible Surprise Surprise rehash. Now it appears Channel 7 is going ahead with the Naomi Robson talk show.

It can’t be a coincidence can it? ‘Yes, sure Naomi, you can do your own Springer/Oprah style chat show’ snigger, snigger, snigger.

What other explaination could there be? Surely Channel 7 can’t seriously be considering about a Naomi fronted talk fest.