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Old 12-09-2016, 18:25
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Just heard on the BBC news.
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Old 12-09-2016, 18:47
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The BBC has lost the rights.
As yet it has no new home.
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Old 12-09-2016, 20:53
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Channel 4! I really wish that the commercial broadcasting companies would get their shit together and let me watch their programmes without ads in return for a small payment.
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Old 13-09-2016, 09:32
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Well of course there will be more Bake Off, it will just be on a different channel.
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Old 14-09-2016, 15:03
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Channel 4! I really wish that the commercial broadcasting companies would get their shit together and let me watch their programmes without ads in return for a small payment.
Why would you pay when you can just record programmes and watch them fifteen minutes after the start, so you can zap through the ads? Doesn't everybody do this?
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Old 14-09-2016, 15:42
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Never seen it.......
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Old 14-09-2016, 15:56
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Why would you pay when you can just record programmes and watch them fifteen minutes after the start, so you can zap through the ads? Doesn't everybody do this?
It seems not. It seems there are still people who sit there and plan their evenings around what's on tv. I once had to watch the X Factor live and almost killed myself.
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Old 14-09-2016, 16:52
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It seems not. It seems there are still people who sit there and plan their evenings around what's on tv. I once had to watch the X Factor live and almost killed myself.
The X Factor is one of the worst for that. There's a break every ten minutes!
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Old 14-09-2016, 16:54
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The X Factor is one of the worst for that. There's a break every ten minutes!
I find the breaks handy in terms of getting snackage & enough alcomohol to make XF bearable
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Old 14-09-2016, 19:28
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Why would you pay when you can just record programmes and watch them fifteen minutes after the start, so you can zap through the ads? Doesn't everybody do this?
The ads will mean Bake off is now only 45 minutes rather than 60.
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Old 14-09-2016, 20:13
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Why would you pay when you can just record programmes and watch them fifteen minutes after the start, so you can zap through the ads? Doesn't everybody do this?
I think I'd have to buy some form of recording device in order to do that. Which I could, but I'm not so fond of GBBO that I'd bother.

My broader point is just that I'd like to be able to pay to remove ads from everywhere. I get that companies need advertising revenue but I'd prefer to give them money and nuke the ads. The other day I tweeted the head of advertising at Facebook on the subject (he basically told me to piss off - apparently ads are part of the Facebook experience, so that's fine then).
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Old 15-09-2016, 09:14
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The ads will mean Bake off is now only 45 minutes rather than 60.
Not necessarily. Channel 4 don't just show 1 hour long programmes.
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Old 15-09-2016, 09:14
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I find the breaks handy in terms of getting snackage & enough alcomohol to make XF bearable
I drink and smoke and even I couldn't find enough stuff to do during the interminable X Factor breaks.
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Old 15-09-2016, 14:16
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It seems not. It seems there are still people who sit there and plan their evenings around what's on tv. I once had to watch the X Factor live and almost killed myself.
Did you know the X Factor is actually only 15 minutes long. It only seems like 1.5 hours because of the adverts.
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Old 22-09-2016, 11:41
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Mary shows loyalty to the BBC by staying while Paul follows the money and head to Channel 4.

Well done Mary I say!
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Old 22-09-2016, 12:08
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Catch up TV is a boon - ad breaks eliminated.
I watched two "one hour" dramas a few days back - 93 minutes total.
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Old 22-09-2016, 12:10
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The ads will mean Bake off is now only 45 minutes rather than 60.
So everything will have a soggy bottom!
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