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New Freeview channel – 7TWO, launches this Sunday

Posted Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:28 am by Jason Cartwright |

Update
The new channel – 7TWO has now launched, unfortunately regional customers have been forgotten yet again! Like OneHD, the promotional material prior to the launch mentioned nothing of the new channel launch only being available in city areas. Very disappointing.

Another feather in the Freeview cap is about to arrive. A new channel Seven free-to-air channel will launch this Sunday 1st November called 7TWO. Making it easy to remember the channel will be located on channel 72.

7TWO, the brand new entertainment channel is jam-packed with movies, action, drama, lifestyle, kids programming and even theme nights. Comprising classic hits such as The Sopranos, plus brand new series’ of favourites such as Ugly Betty, Heroes, Lost and 24 which will be premiered on 7TWO, Seven has delivered a channel with shows for the whole family to watch.

Tivo owners don’t need to do anything, the new channel will be automatically scanned and simply show up in the Program Guide.

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The Canberra Times (Canberra is the playout centre for all Prime/GWN) is reporting that Prime plans to start broadcasting 7TWO in January 2010.

It's not really a regional vs city thing here either, seeing places like regional QLD have this channel, while Canberra and Hobart don't. It's really an issue of Prime being shit.
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Thanks for the info Ross. My biggest issue with the whole thing is the pre-launch information and advertising said nothing about it being available in only select locations. So the expectation from consumers is that it'll be available everywhere.

So when the channel launched and this isn't the case, it leaves a lot of people angry, frustrated and dissapointed.

I've had a lot of replies on twitter saying, don't worry about it, the content on the channel is crap anyway.
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I watched the launch of Channel 72 and it was boring as rat pee. They had a 60 second count down and then after that they had the cheesy “7 TV” character come on screen and say “welcome to television” with a cheesy voice. Anyhow its great to have more choices of what I can watch.

New Freeview channel – 7TWO, launches this Sunday

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