tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24998935.post116480979611965403..comments2023-10-18T01:40:21.059-06:00Comments on Lee Distad's professional opinion: An unexpected roadbump on the road to HDTVLee_Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01883046714531709404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24998935.post-1164896758279555322006-11-30T07:25:00.000-07:002006-11-30T07:25:00.000-07:00Flatland Pastor's primary point fits nicely with D...Flatland Pastor's primary point fits nicely with Doyle, the Globe and Mail TV columnist, who has been attacking the BBC of late for abandoning creative programming. (Yes, he is also enormously critical of North American networks for what passes for programming.) Since the head of the BBC has just walked to an independent anything is possible at the BBC. The current arguments before the CRTC, however, do not bode well for improvements here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24998935.post-1164844802716733512006-11-29T17:00:00.000-07:002006-11-29T17:00:00.000-07:00I have a BellExpressvu dish and ALL I want to watc...I have a BellExpressvu dish and ALL I want to watch is HD. And I can find HD stuff in prime time every day of the week - just not stuff I'm always interested in. And I'm no heavy TV consumer. If even a portion of the number of folks who have ponied up for an HD TV are becomming as picky as I am then I think the premium model is building itself.<BR/><BR/>Bill O'Reilly (not THAT Bill O'Reilly) in his radio program "The Age of Persuasion" observed that the birth of commercial broadcasting was founded on the tacit agreement between the advertiser and the consumer, that the consumer would tolerate the ads if the advertiser paid for quality entertainment to offer to the consumer/listener/watcher.<BR/><BR/>Has everybody forgotten this agreement? If the advertisers would help the networks and production houses create some stuff worth watching, I think the elusive business model the head of CBC is looking for would walk right up and kiss him on the mouth. But he may still not recognize it.<BR/><BR/>If the networks in the USA and Canada are having a hard time raising the capital for HD production based on current ad revenue and viewer stats maybe that's what we all get for a decade (almost) of reality (bites) TV.<BR/><BR/>The viewers are going elsewhere looking for something to care about. HD could bring everyone back to TV big time but it will take the courage to create some excellent programming. Having said that, I am encouraged by some new stuff this year, especially "Heroes" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"; the first stuff I've cared about at all on broadcast TV in years.<BR/><BR/>I doubt that "other" media outlets could really beat HD TV at the entertainment for advertising deal beause my techno-savvy PC loving son would rather watch "Heroes" on our 50" Hitachi than on his video ipod. We are creatures with nearly 180 degree peripherial vision. Watching stuff on a screen the size of a postage stamp or a sheet of paper just doesn't cut it.<BR/><BR/>So TV execs - QUIT WHINING!! Roll out the production values and hire back a few of those writers you let go when you decided all you needed was a premise, three cameras and some amateurs who would do anything in front of a camera for $50K, and make some killer TV!<BR/><BR/>I'm your demographic and I'm in front of my HD TV waiting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04224790812997190731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24998935.post-1164817712085905122006-11-29T09:28:00.000-07:002006-11-29T09:28:00.000-07:00All this at a time when the broadcasters seem more...All this at a time when the broadcasters seem more inclined to drive eyeballs away by ensuring that it is often difficult to find the programs one does want to watch. So who or what is really at fault for declining revenue?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com