The totally off-topic thread

[medhead]

Hey Hey It’s Saturday would not be the same if they called it Hey Hey it's Wednesday :!:

It is an institution though probably mostly before your time Sam.

We could also gather the the time factor by Sam seeing underbelly as a good show, whereas it mostly reminds me of news reports.

Hey Hey was ok when it was on Saturday mornings. it wasn't bad viewing for the lads sitting around nursing hangovers. But when it went to Saturday night it lost its lustre. I just didn't consider it a nighttime show. On Saturday mornings it was a 'kids' show that grown-ups (oh ok, big kids ) could watch.

Now your showing your age. I can never remember when hey, hey was on a saturday morning, this is going back to the mid 1980s. But then I also think that the show should have been put down shortly after birth, so I can't say that I particularly paid that much attention to it.

Especially didn’t like that it overran last night, pushing all other shows to later time slots, if I’d gone out and recorded the later shows, I’d have missed all the endings. :evil:

Ahh, the magically Hey hey formula. If the running late annoys you, you'll should soon grow to hate the show as I do.

 

[samh004]

Ahh, the magically Hey hey formula. If the running late annoys you, you'll should soon grow to hate the show as I do.

I like channel Nine, but this year they have been appalling with late running shows and airing the wrong things. I’m not sure who’s in charge anymore, but I’d still like to blame Eddie!

 

[medhead]

I like channel Nine, but this year they have been appalling with late running shows and airing the wrong things. I’m not sure who’s in charge anymore, but I’d still like to blame Eddie!

All of the channels hve done this running late thing for years. It is par of the model to make people watch them all night. They figure that people are less likely to switch channels to watch another show that might have been going for 5 or 10 minutes already. Part of the reason I've stuck with Aunty and Foxtel for close to 20 years now, except for big shows like seinfeld and x-files. Actually, I can't think of any other show that I've bothered with on commercial TV in that time

 

[docjames]

All of the channels hve done this running late thing for years. time

SBS are on time - i routinely set the recorder and it literally starts and stops at the same time as the show starts/stops.

Channel 7 started it, now getting worse. 9 is just following. 10 isnt much better. ABC are usually ok.

 

[samh004]

All of the channels hve done this running late thing for years. It is par of the model to make people watch them all night. They figure that people are less likely to switch channels to watch another show that might have been going for 5 or 10 minutes already. Part of the reason I've stuck with Aunty and Foxtel for close to 20 years now, except for big shows like seinfeld and x-files. Actually, I can't think of any other show that I've bothered with on commercial TV in that time

I have Foxtel too, and I like to record several shows at the same time as I watch another, as per Foxtel marketing, but it’s the free-to-air channels 7/9/10 that screw me over for wanting to watch the shows they’ve bought, but also overrunning their own cough.

SBS are on time - i routinely set the recorder and it literally starts and stops at the same time as the show starts/stops.

Channel 7 started it, now getting worse. 9 is just following. 10 isnt much better. ABC are usually ok.

SBS and ABC work well for me.

 

[straitman]

Channel 7 started it, now getting worse. 9 is just following. 10 isnt much better. ABC are usually ok.

Ch 7 is still the worst.

Buy a Tivo and time shift or record two shows at once. We always set recordings to finish 10 min late and unless it is Hey Hey (which I would not record), the footy show (which I would not watch) or similar the 10 min window works.

 

[samh004]

Ch 7 is still the worst.

Buy a Tivo and time shift or record two shows at once. We always set recordings to finish 10 min late and unless it is Hey Hey (which I would not record), the footy show (which I would not watch) or similar the 10 min window works.

My iQ has a 10 minute buffer on everything and in the future I’ll be pressing the “extend 20 minutes” button if Hey Hey is on. Just to be safe.

 

[straitman]

A different OT.

Congratulations to serfty on passing 12,000 posts that show up against his name :!:

 

[tuapekastar]

Now your showing your age. I can never remember when hey, hey was on a saturday morning, this is going back to the mid 1980s. But then I also think that the show should have been put down shortly after birth, so I can't say that I particularly paid that much attention to it.

Indeed I am!

Mid-80s (1984) is about when it moved from Sat AM to Sat PM (and as said, it was ok in context in the AM, but definitely never a great PM show). The first few shows (early 1970s, and certainly not seen by me) were co-hosted by AFL footballer Peter McKenna (who was eventually replaced by the ostrich).

 

[samh004]

A different OT.

Congratulations to serfty on passing 12,000 posts that show up against his name :!:

I saw him edging ever closer earlier today.

Congrats on reaching the goal again, serfty!

 

[medhead]

SBS are on time - i routinely set the recorder and it literally starts and stops at the same time as the show starts/stops.

Channel 7 started it, now getting worse. 9 is just following. 10 isnt much better. ABC are usually ok.

SBS and ABC work well for me.

Yes, sorry I did mena the commercial channels have been doing it for years. This is why I become an Aunty (ABC) watcher. i.e. ABC and SBS are good on timings.

Indeed I am!

Mid-80s (1984) is about when it moved from Sat AM to Sat PM (and as said, it was ok in context in the AM, but definitely never a great PM show). The first few shows (early 1970s, and certainly not seen by me) were co-hosted by AFL footballer Peter McKenna (who was eventually replaced by the ostrich).

They were different times back then. Basically anyone living outside a capital city had 2 TV channels, ABC and a regional commercial station. So there was basically nothing else to watch if the commercial station picked up Hey, Hey. (I'm not that big an aunty watcher to view it at 6:30 pm on Saturday). Got to experience this in Cairns and out around Kingaroy. I also put Hey, Hey success down to this situation that there was no competition. Of course everyone is watch this rubbish there is nothing else to watch!

So I'll be interested to see how it goes now there is competition.

 

[Mal]

They were different times back then. Basically anyone living outside a capital city had 2 TV channels, ABC and a regional commercial station. So there was basically nothing else to watch if the commercial station picked up Hey, Hey. (I'm not that big an aunty watcher to view it at 6:30 pm on Saturday). Got to experience this in Cairns and out around Kingaroy. I also put Hey, Hey success down to this situation that there was no competition. Of course everyone is watch this rubbish there is nothing else to watch!

So I'll be interested to see how it goes now there is competition.

An interesting take on things. I used to watch "Hey Hey", mainly because it was what was shown in my house. I can't recall what competition it had at the time, but can't remember it being anything special.

Comparing what was popular back then vs what might become popular today is problematic. Would "Different Strokes" (and I'm not sure of the spelling) or "21 Jump Street" or "Perry Mason" or "Murder She Wrote" or "Hunter" (US version) or other shows that were popular then still be popular today?

 

[samh004]

An interesting take on things. I used to watch "Hey Hey", mainly because it was what was shown in my house. I can't recall what competition it had at the time, but can't remember it being anything special.

Comparing what was popular back then vs what might become popular today is problematic. Would "Different Strokes" (and I'm not sure of the spelling) or "21 Jump Street" or "Perry Mason" or "Murder She Wrote" or "Hunter" (US version) or other shows that were popular then still be popular today?

Quite a few of them can be found on TV1 every week not sure if they’re actually popular though!

 

[medhead]

An interesting take on things. I used to watch "Hey Hey", mainly because it was what was shown in my house. I can't recall what competition it had at the time, but can't remember it being anything special.

Well in my house, in Cairns, there was no competition as the only commerical TV channel was NQTV. Same near Kingaroy and I'd suggest the same anywhere outside of a 200 km radius of a capital city. So to make a show popular all you had to do was get the regional TV stations to sign up and bang you've got a big chunk of the viewing public locked in. Not really an interesting take, more a statement about life back then in regional Australia.

 

[Mal]

Well in my house, in Cairns, there was no competition as the only commerical TV channel was NQTV. .

I spent some time in regional Australia during my formative years (mainly on holiday). I don't think that Hey Hey (for example) was popular due to no choice. I still see it as a consequence of society back then.

 

[medhead]

I spent some time in regional Australia during my formative years (mainly on holiday). I don't think that Hey Hey (for example) was popular due to no choice. I still see it as a consequence of society back then.

Yeah, but then lots of people didn't have a choice, so it is a bit hard to agree that they weren't watching because there was nothing else. (This is a kind of chicken and egg question)

Sure it was popular with some sections of society. But I'm really banging on about it's "amazing" level of popularity, i.e the ratings. The fact that lots of people had no choice pushed up the ratings, which then allowed Nine to claim it to be amazingly popular. I'm sure that given the choice we all enjoy today that Hey, Hey' ratings would have been a lot smaller to reflect those in society who like that kinda rubbish. Luckily we have hey, hey Mark II to test my theory and I wish the show the success it deserves. I'll certainly eat my hat if the show gets the success it doesn't deserve. :shock:

 

[Mal]

I'm sure that given the choice we all enjoy today that Hey, Hey' ratings would have been a lot smaller to reflect those in society who like that kinda rubbish.

Ok, so why does "Australian Idol" and similar shows rate well? Is it because people have no choice, or because they are simply popular shows?

I suggest it's simply the generation gaps showing up vs anything saying "Hey Hey" was bad or "Australian Idol" is good.

 

[medhead]

Ok, so why does "Australian Idol" and similar shows rate well? Is it because people have no choice, or because they are simply popular shows?

I suggest it's simply the generation gaps showing up vs anything saying "Hey Hey" was bad or "Australian Idol" is good.

Not sure what generation gaps have to do with anything. What are the ratings of Hey, hey in 1986-1992 vs Australian Idol? I'm sure Australian Idol would not rate better that Hey, Hey from back then, these days idol only rates the same as a number of other shows. But this only highlights my point is that hey hey's ratings were inflated by the lack of choice. So I'm not sure how Australian Idol has any bearing on that sitaution. Hey hey won all those logie awards, Australian idol will never win an award. IMO because people didn't know any better, there was nothing else to vote for against Hey, hey. Then there is the limited voting public for the logie's.

As for this bad vs good thing. Well I think both shows are rubbish. But I'm saying that one of those bad shows rated well (better than the other) because of the lack of choice. In this day with choice bad shows like Idol only rate average to above average. And my theory is that Hey hey, today will only rate at the same level as all those other shows that we now have to choose from.

Or with fewer words. Back then bad show, no choice - really high ratings. Today 2 bad shows, lots of choice, the same ratings.

 

[samh004]

Well I’ve just made some mash and steamed some brussels sprouts for a fry up when I get up, so now I’m off to bed. Hopefully my sister appreciates the work.

 

[whereishome]

I've just woken up from a dream where I couldn't successfully fill out the immigration departure card to leave Australia, continually making mistakes. I ended up being stuck in a deserted terminal whilst my flight was boarding, surrounded by a knee-high pile of green cards, all with terrible mistakes on them.

Then I woke up.

Lesson Learned : Maybe seschuan chicken overload isn't a good way to spend a Saturday night.