Amateur TV channels
As everyone must have noticed by now, we have a plethora of TV channels available compared to the four or five of several years ago. A good thing?
I think not!
Quality generally has suffered noticeably and advertising time seems to have increased as well.
Personally, I can live with this, but what I find both amusing and sad at the same time is the inexorable increase in amateurism on the part of the people who run what I call the 'amateur channels'.
Take one example: Horror Channel. Recently, although I watch very little of this channel, I have experienced two instances of the 'start record signal' being broadcast after the programmes have started, and another instance of, presumably, no signal sent at all.
Then I noticed last night the wrong programme title being shown: 'Star Trek: The Original Series' when the programme being shown was The Next Generation.
Not earth-shattering things, I know, but it demonstrates how the companies involved buy cheap, out of date programmes and lazily broadcast them with faults simply in order to make a 'fast buck'.
I do believe that if the resources available were channelled into far fewer (perhaps less than a dozen) services, quality would almost certainly improve.
Or is it perhaps related to Tony B Liar's 'dumbing down' policy which is now revealing its consequences in the media. The same could also account for the atrocious spelling in online newspapers.