jammers on 5:00 pm on Feb. 1, 2002
It is such a shame. Having ITV Digital becauseim not allowed to have Sky due to planning probs mean I really miss Sky News. BBC News 24 doesnt come close im afraid. It would be good if Sky News could launch on ITV DIG as soon as poss. The BBC is worried about competition.
Not suprisingly the BBC doesnt seem to be at all worried about ITN NC providing competition.
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thegreenfairy on 5:13 pm on Feb. 1, 2002
Yes I know ITN news channel is 24/7 everywhere except DTT where it only had space 5.30am till 9 - but now it's on all day till 7
Well it's now 6.00 and ITN has just disappeared - the EPG also states it's on air 5.30am-6pm. (Although the MHEG caption still thinks it finishes at 9am).
But most bizarrely, just after ITN went blank at 5.59, we got about 20 seconds worth of Tele-G! The screen then froze, went blank again and then the usual MHEG caption reappeared.
Well they've lost a customer... it really is that simple.
If they aren't going to provide to me the service I want then I won't buy their product.
That quote from Sky really summed it up. It's total hypocracy on the part of the BBC.
It's a similar situation to what happened in the USA. The then Time Warner (CNN owners) refused to put Fox News Channel on their New York cable network, so that CNN would hold the monopoly.
The BBC are supposed to care about quality over anything else.
If one of your competitors is doing better than you then improve, it's really is that simple. The BBC should not be allowed to block competition because they know they are going to lose a ratings war.
All they want to be able to do is to insert a paragraph into Dyke's annual report saying how much of a wonderful investment News 24 has been and how they are beating their commercial rivals.
Good old BBC. If you can't beat them then don't face them, how's about they add that to the Charter - not that anyone pays any attention to that now.
Regardless of who 'owns' Sky News, it should not be for the BBC to decide whether or not the public watches it. If they can't accept being beaten by Sky then they should bloody well improve their own product, not limit the public's availability of a clearly better service.
This is essentially the BBC admitting that News 24 just cannot compete with Sky News.
'The greatest incentives for misusing a gatekeeping position to limit third party content providers' abilities to access audiences, and vice versa, arise where companies are vertically integrated with control over both platforms and content.'
- The BBC commenting on Sky abusing its market position... yesterday