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Do you think that Fox Kids will have something to do with this, as they are due for a name change soon because Disney bought the channel out (I think) and their rights to use the Fox brand are coming to an end shortly - i think i read this somewhere. (I could have been dreaming it though)

I remember lots of speculation about it [Fox Kids] turning into an ABC Family type channel, and it's going 24/7 next month aswell.

I'm probably wrong though, and I'm babbling now too! but I just thought I'd raise this jibberish!

[Hides in corner expecting insults!]

While I wouldn't wish to comment on the veracity or otherwise of the main content of the article, there were at least two errors in it:

Of course, we all know that SDN isn't part of Freeview (yes, I know that's probably splitting hairs....


Subs? Hello, does the name Free view mean nothing?

<gets off his soapbox and takes it home>

This is only really relevant to people in Wales really.

Earlier on I asked if there would be enough space for the Disney Channel and Sentanta Sports with 5 slots already used up on SDN in Wales (with five, bid-up.tv,S4C~,S4C~2 and TV Travel Shop currently carried). I think i've just answered my own question, I just noticed something at the bottom of the Hollywood Reporter article, it says:



This could mean that it would timeshare with S4C~2, taking a similar time slot to Ftn 6pm-6am. The S4C~2 MHEG Info Screen says it broadcasts the assembly on Tuesday at 2pm til 5pm, and on Wednesday and Thursday from 9am til 5pm.

This means that the new Disney Channel could timeshare with S4C~2 and there would still be a slot for a new Sports Channel.

I'm good aren't I!!

Fraser

Are you claiming that the article MISQUOTED the spokesman for Disney?
Obviously the spokesman for Disney was in error if he said that, but does that make the article in error?


Where did it say paid subscription?

Have you ever been a subscriber of a mailing list?



So how many more alleged errors did you find in the article, such that the statement



cannot reasonably be believed?

And none of those definitions apply to Freeview. When you buy a TV, you don't "subscribe" to ITV.

Interesting, I don't recall clicking "What does the word Free mean" thread. Silly me, must go the optician.

So BACK ON topic. Anyone got any more news on this proposed new channel.

...but if I by a digital receiver, I receive a service regularly on order - I can get the TV channels when I want them... so I do subscribe to Freeview?

No doubt because you do not feel favorably disposed to the appallingly bad programs broadcast by ITV.

But, as you've quoted above, I said there were errors in it - not that the article was in error.


Get off your high horse, Corin. Where TV is concerned, the main understanding people have is that a sub is paid - it's a bit annoying that you feel you have to quote a dictionary entry to prove a (fairly pointless) point, which you do quite frequently. Dictionaries don't always record the most common usages or understandings of words. And, yes, it is an area of expertise, seeing as my master's degree was about dictionaries.
And, I don't recall saying that your assertion about those programmes was untrue.
I actually think you're one of the more intelligent posters on here, Corin, but you do yourself no favours with that sort of attack on someone else's postings.

Pot

Kettle

Which explains why Corin's on a "high" horse all the time.

CHIP PAN!!

Do I win?

(I agree with Neil - Subscribers means you have to pay in TV terms)