Comments on: Can local programming get any worse?

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:48:04 +0000

I agree with anon about people still using MediaCORPSE TV? It’s pretty old (and point less to pay). ALL U C is good but my favourite is blinkbox.com
http://www.blinkbox.com/TV

There are a few USA restrictions I believe but these can be rectified on request (through the contact and with specific proxy details)

By: sfactor

sfactor — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:14:05 +0000

actually, from a guy’s sytnadpoint, i ENJOYed watching S factor. just imagine, bimbos in bikinis prancing around for one hour – this is the best of mediacorp.

They should make more of these shows -

By: Sick&Tired

Sick&Tired — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:04:47 +0000

I gave up on local TV programs long ago. Only watching some documentaries/HK dramas occasionally. I wouldn’t want to waste any of my precious time after work just to watch some crappy local TV programs when I can get better entertainment from the internet!

The TV would be almost redundant for me but game consoles need it to work.

By: 2small

2small — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:52:47 +0000

Well, that is the standard, lah.

Full coverage of US Presidential elections?

Sands for cash ?

he he he

As one professional amerika journalist wrote
“WITH COLONIALISM DECLINING,
WORLD DOMINANCE TAKES ON A NEW FORM,
THE US AND ITS OTHER AXIS”!

Wonder when we will be using amerikan English on our national TV ?
“So option, Select English : UK or Amerika ?

Will our newcasters begin to read news with an amerika accent, and with names like MacArthur Lim,
Truman Ang,
Lincoln Lim,
Ford Ee,
Obamma Goh?
Or what about Bush Lee ?

he he he

In the words of some, we are “small” ?

Read and hear TV news of reports of some amerika servicemen rapes and murders reports in Asia, and you will understand.

By: wahlau

wahlau — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:51:20 +0000

i don’t have any other services still i don’t watch except news i have no comment just wonder why the ceo quit and why jackie chan say artises here have to work harder

By: Enigmatic

Enigmatic — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:42:22 +0000

All grudgingly pay $110 for mediocre TV programme- esp. channel 8 local chinese dramas which seems to get worse or the telecast of repeated shows and at their own whim and fancy – make a my family favourite Taiwanese variety show : Big Brother Six mysteriously disappeared or probably interring it else where and have arbitrarily done it to other shows too.

Also why must vehicular owners be compelled to pay the damn vehicle radio licence again when they are already paying $110 for their radio and Tv licence. Disgruntled but what to do when things are doine the diktating ways here.

By: Pui.....

Pui..... — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:36:56 +0000

Its either cable tv or none, for me.

By: mylife.sg

mylife.sg — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:16:10 +0000

I paid my share too, although very redundantly and without really knowing what I have just paid for.

Estimated that there are around 600,000 household with a least a TV set

600K * $110 = $66 million

Not much, but enough for them to justify for their 8 months bonus

By: Debra Bulge o Mui Mui Land of Spinistres

Debra Bulge o Mui Mui Land of Spinistres — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:16:07 +0000

38) Wah Bian A on April 1st, 2009 10.46 pm
[[[Thanks to the local TV station, my TV is turned off most, if not ALL of the time. I have precious and wonderful time for other things in life that is enriching. Watching too much TV, one can get ‘blocked-head’.]]]

Me too. Whenever humanly possible, I refrain from watching the TV. This saves plenty of electricity. Plasma type TVs are expecially electricity hungry. I only watch creative programmes like those from SCV when I am really bored or stuck at home when its raining.

But I would say there is no propaganda on tv. I mean foreign channels lah. why would i say local channels? but maybe TV newspresenters and program hosts can advise lor. I am sure they would agree with me.

hee hee haa haa hoo hoo hay hay.

By: concerncitizen

concerncitizen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:11:51 +0000

Just pay my TV license $110 online … i feels … disgusted

Scared if I dun pay the dogs from NDA would send me lawyer letter

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:03:26 +0000

I really don’t care if they got worse, or closed down, or something like that.

I do care that MDA extorts money from me every year even though I watch less than 10 hours of TV a year. The actual time I spend at the couch really watching the TV is less than that.

Unfortunately, I need my TV to watch videos and such, and it’s illegal not to pay the MDA license. Ah well…

I’d be happy if they come to disable my TV point so that I don’t have to receive their drivel or pay protection money

By: Signore Kai

Signore Kai — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:28:59 +0000

Arix,

Yes I agree with you on the creativity monopoly, but that fact is hardly news; our media channels have always been quite… an one-man-show, for pun’s sake.

That one feeble attempt at competition (Channel U, Channel I) got eaten up rather quickly, along with a newspaper as well (Today? I can’t really remember).

Indeed it’s pretty sad but until another media company comes up and provide some competition, this monopoly would continue, I guess. That’s why we all have to set our sights on further goals. ;]

By: winstoncheng

winstoncheng — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:00:46 +0000

What can you expect from a country run by nerds. They are so shallow to think that stripping = hot.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:36:45 +0000

zzzzzz, waste my tv licence fee… grrr….@##%^$^&Y&*

By: smallvice585

smallvice585 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:23:27 +0000

Liberalising TV doesn’t mean a lot more sexually arousing content. But it seems that PAP find sex a lesser evil than political content such as public policy debate on TV.

By: Arix

Arix — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:39:37 +0000

Signore Kai,

I agree that the most recent shows – and that includes “Happily Ever After” on Okto – are attempts at creativity. But I feel that MediaCorp is stifling creativity due to its monopoly in the local Media, just as SPH quashes the quality of Journalism in ST, and even more in Lianhe, Berita and Murasu. In the end, the handful of MediaCorp executives can only identify so many good talent, and only so many types of talent, which won’t be as much as the real variety of talent in Singapore.

Or perhaps we shouldn’t be so harsh on MediaCorp. After all, it needs to produce shows with “national interest”, even if they are the most boring shows on the planet.

Regards,
Arix

By: Jian (KRC)

Jian (KRC) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:39:12 +0000

Signore Kai, I like your optimism. Let’s hope for the best.

By: Signore Kai

Signore Kai — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:30:34 +0000

Indeed the shows are getting lousier and lousier- I suspect that’s the producers’ and scriptwriters’ incompetency coupled with the corporation’s lack of competition. Just look at Channel 8- almost all the shows are the same old thing, over and over again with the same lines repeated a googol times.

But personally I think Red Thread & Fighting Spiders -ARE- their attempts at creativity. I like RT’s trailer (Search Red Thread in Facebook- I feel that they have one of the best trailers in Mediacorp history). While I do think this is going to be the same old crap again considering the fact that ALL the other trailers after the first one I saw, sucked. But I think I’m going to give them the benefit of doubt here.

Yes, Mediacorp shows are crappy I agree, but let’s give them a chance. I think Little Nonya is a small step in the right direction, though the craze after that is utterly annoying.

Give the new local films a chance to become today’s “The Unbeatables” or “Condor Heroes”, before condemning them into eternal hell.

By: Humptinised Between a Rock and a Hard Floor

Humptinised Between a Rock and a Hard Floor — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:05:01 +0000

35) aiyoyo on April 1st, 2009 10.48 pm

But they keep showing their got this and that award, which I 1st time heard before. hee heee….

By: SZ

SZ — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:51:35 +0000

Mmm…local TV…i don’t watch it…even my parents only watch it when there is some Taiwanese/HK/Korean drama been aired…otherwise the TV is off