Originally Posted by *MikeB*:
“Of course your personal feelings count. But all I was getting at was that we aren't in a recession so it's not right to say that we are. The figures won't be made up it's pretty hard to falsify the GDP of a country. As for who is seeing the difference? Well one thing I've noticed in the surrounding towns and villages here is that there's less empty shops and cafés and restaurants are absolutely packed again. Of course it depends on where you live, things in the North East aren't so great for example.
The fact that there is teleshopping on these channels might not be linked to the performance of our economy. It could be that viewing figures for that type of channel have declined over the last few years. There's more music channels now than there used to be so the audience will be more spread out too.”
I agree with you on the first part but I believe the further you go out of London there is probably little difference, I am in North East Scotland and I don't see any signs of recovery and all I hear is jobs are coming yet that has been said for more than a year now and no change (apologies if its went off topic)
That maybe true that decline in viewers may have caused this but surely your doing yourselves more harm than good and what good is "teleshopping" to the viewer?? Yeah basic switch off, I live in the STV area and I have now got to contend with The Nightshift a programme full of recycled clips and nothing more (a text number and a show which was on for 3 days a week and has just from tonight been extended to run now for a whole week (fair enough it aint teleshopping but its beyond pathetic now), you either just close after a certain time then resume, they done that in analogue days (OK MTV/THE BOX/VH1 were 24 hours but now they aint)
Regarding "music" wise of these channels - most of them are just basically catering to the same songs on every channel, you may on the odd occasion will get something different but the playlists now are "safe". There is lack of any variety what you see say on MTV Hits will be on MTV Music or even Live, VH1 is just basically MTV Hits and yet made mistakes. But all these channels care for is that we all tune into MTV and its crummy shows yet music is more like second in my opinion