Does more choice equal less quality TV channels?

renegadefm

I would go so far as to say adverts dont have the same impact on people as when the majority of the country all watched ITV. Compared to if a million or 2 are watching other channels your not going to be all viewing the same advert at once.

oldernonethewiser

It is the inherent stupidity of the trolling that I find depressing.

Neil_Jones

renegadefm wrote: »

I was being kinda hypothetical, I know we're never going to revert back the 3 channels.

I'm merely pointing out how good those channels managed to sustain a high quality package of programmes everyday. Now everything is watered down. Only a few million at best watch each channel I suspect now, compared to 18 million would watch Top of the pops at its peak.

It was not "high quality" programming every day, nothing of the sort. In the era you're referring to there were only three channels (later 4) and it was that or nothing. Any old crap would have gone out and the majority of it would have probably rated with the bigger programmes being better at this. it was no more special then than it is now.

Please come up with a decent counter argument as opposed to just trotting out a Two Ronnies style monologue that takes three days to go anywhere...

renegadefm

Neil Jones, I disagree. Most of my favourites things on tv I grew up with was in that period of mid 70's to mid 80's..

I cant name one thing I particulary like now.

A_Nice_Englishman

renegadefm wrote: »

I would go so far as to say adverts dont have the same impact on people as when the majority of the country all watched ITV. Compared to if a million or 2 are watching other channels your not going to be all viewing the same advert at once.

The commercials were always regionalised, even during networked programmes. In the era we're talking about there would have been people at each regional company playing adverts according to the list given to them by the Sales team for each break. Thames, Anglia, Granada and Scottish viewers could all be watching different ads at the same time.

Nowadays it's all centralised and automated but different ads can be and are played in different regions.

prowla

I don't watch channels - I watch programmes.


As to the good old days, there was a lot of drivel on then, punctuated by some good stuff; just like now.

[Deleted User]

martinthebandit wrote: »

I think your viewing the past through rose tinted spectacles.

Oh and 18 million watched Top of the pops because there was now't else to do.

I suspect he is doing no such thing, as there's no way they're old enough to have seen any of them. Definitely a 21st century kid.

giraffe69

I'm merely pointing out how good those channels managed to sustain a high quality package of programmes everyday.

We all pine for the days of the Black & White Minstrel show and, of course, the BBC or Channel 4 leaving the cricket for racing usually at a key moment. Happy days!

JJ_Egan

Looking at what i watched this last few days no way would i want the nonsense that the OP wants .
Fer instance i was able to watch Leinster Schools rugby union match on Freeview freesport .Plus a large number of films on Freeview . PBS and Smithsonian have good stuff on at times .

[Deleted User]

renegadefm wrote: »

I remember when I was a child television seemed to cram so much variety and quality programmes on just 3 channels, now we have all this choice via hundreds of channels it feels like we actually have a lot less quality. Hence the saying quantity verses quality.

I was just 13 when Channel 4 was first broadcast in 1982, but even at 13 I remember thinking how the hell am I going to find time to watch another channel when all the things I like watching we're on the other three channels , BBC 1, BBC 2, and ITV.

But now I seem to spend most of the day or evening depending on what shift I am flicking through the vast array of channels trying to find something worth watching. We didnt have this problem with just 3 channels.

Who agrees they would rather just have 3 decent channels, and a better way of charging for them? The TV licence is out dated. Like a pay per view depending on what channel your watching. Because at the moment if you got Sky aswell we are paying way too much as you can only watch one thing at a time.

The problem with TV in general is that there aren't enough programs to fill all the channels.

The problem with Sky is that they put one or two good channels in each bundle, then pad the rest out with dross, so if you only want the good channels you end up having to buy every bundle.