Comments on: New Freeview channel – 7TWO, launches this Sunday

By: krnageskillz

krnageskillz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:48:24 +0000

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.

By: techau

techau — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:51:33 +0000

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.

By: itsross

itsross — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:16:38 +0000

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.