[LINK] digital TV conversion - psychology of the consumer

[Daniel Rose]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 8/08/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>> What we need is for the commercial stations to be permitted to 
>> multi-channel, and for there to be more (or even any would be nice) 
>> quality content.
> 
> Makes me wonder if the free to air or the gubmint have nudge wink deals 
> with Foxtel to not do this. I would love a couple more channel types:
> old b&w movies
> cartoons [rocky and bullwinkle, looney tunes, etc]
> weather channel, even if it were just a graphic with updates of 
> satellite imagery
> a clock
> educational programs (there are quite a few of those available, used to 
> be on Open Learning)
> arts and music
> 


SBS carries a certain amount of "weird" or cult programming; south park and drawn together, old zombie movies, foreign war films and stuff like "Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are dead".  I remember ~15 years ago they had a show on Saturdays called Buzz which was full of heavy concepts and general "wow, man, yeah!" stuff, and they've run some good new years eve lineups too.

Along with heavy documentries like "the cutting edge", this is the only pay tv I'd pay for; as essentially it's the category I've seen with the least commercial/marketing influence on the programming. However, I suspect that the audience for sport or business channels is somewhat larger.  If we can have channels like hallmark, disney and nikelodeon, I'd like to see something like this.