I am so tired of watching Aussie TV channels. No quality material and full of shitty content. For even news- 9news, 7news, ABC all kept going on about Taylor swift all day. No quality news reporting at all. Thanks to YouTube , my go to channel for news now is DW and France 24. European channels are the best in my opinion.
The very very few things I care to watch any more (and those almost entirely SBS and ABC) I can watch online. The other channels put together would be lucky to show anything I care about a few times a year. If they won’t stream it online I just don’t bother. If they won’t put on any stuff I care to watch, that’s their problem. My TV isn’t even plugged into an aerial any more, it’s only there to maybe use with the old games machines or maybe watch an old DVD
I haven’t watched TV in years. I have a tv, but it’s only hooked up to the gaming consoles.
The referendum last year? I didn’t see any ads, I just read ABC news every few days to see what was up. That $200 million dollar lottery? Never heard anything about it. “Did you hear about the car crash on the…?”, nope.
On YouTube I’d rather donate directly to the creators I like, and I feel I’m really apart of that niche community.
I think about the old family radio that everyone sat around, and then the tv that everyone sat around, and now people can kinda sit around watching their own thing, and (hopefully) chat share about their interests.
I don’t think free to air will be around in 10 years. It’s up to the advertisers.
In older generations, the shitty programming appeals to gullibility and a fucked up sense of voyeurism. My 70+ mother thinks ACA is still the bastion of good current affairs reporting, and that MAFS is great prime time entertainment.
There’s only a few things I’ll watch on ABC, but the rest is on my Plex server.
There are the rare shows that i enjoy, such as Alone on SBS or The 1% club on 7. And occasionaly a bloody pearler comes along like Rake on ABC.
Did you catch Fisk? Tragic lawyer from Sydney moves to Melbourne. Kitty Flanagan, with a great Aussie supporting cast.
If your a fan of Fisk i feel Utopia is in a similar vein (also has kitty flannagin).
And a relatively new on is Colin from Accounts, i rate it.
Yeah I’d give FTA another decade, 2 max. Now I think about it this is kinda worrying tho, at least on FTA everyone sees the same broadcast. If everyone’s streaming and each user’s stream could be individually selected or even tampered with [deepfakes?] the problems we have at the moment with people living in different ‘realities’ could get a lot worse. I’m not saying that’s gonna happen, but interesting things happen when powerful entities have access to technology like that.
It’s naive to think the model will die. In fact it’s merely getting new operators and beneficiaries in the form of Google, Disney, Warner, etc.
The state and commerce will always vie and co-operate for control of the public’s media access and consumption patterns, with an eye to market captivity.
More realities is better. Or ideally we would do away with the concept of reality altogether and just have unreal worlds.
If you’re uncomfortable with people being in different realities you just have to practice planeswalking more. It’s not hard. Diversity is good actually. Letting Capital have absolute control over the means of reality is bad.
Diversity is good individually, helps us form balanced opinions. But having radically polarised individuals, with diverse and different views is bad for social harmony.
