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Post by Beck on Apr 27, 2011 10:32:45 GMT 10
How many channels do you have? Do you have Pay TV? Which ones do you watch the most?
We have all the free to air ones, no Pay TV. I used to watch 10 a lot but most of the shows I liked on there have moved to their other channel, 11, and the sport is usually on ONE so I watch those more. I watch Prime on Sunday nights, and the kids watch a lot of GO and ABC2, but we don't watch the other channels often.
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Post by shred on Apr 27, 2011 11:03:57 GMT 10
When you say Pay TV, do you mean cable TV? We have both free-to-air channels and cable. I love NZ TV because they have more than one English channel!  I think I watch both equally. Sports are on cable so I'm always watching Sky Sports or ESPN for my football. Watch E! for E! News and sometimes the Comedy Channel for their sitcoms. But for watching my favourite shows, I watch them on the free-to-air channels. |
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Post by Beck on Apr 27, 2011 11:05:27 GMT 10
I meant which individual channels more so than Pay TV or Free to Air  By Pay TV I mean cable yes... that you are paying for extra channels. It is called Foxtel or Austar here. |
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Post by shred on Apr 27, 2011 11:08:16 GMT 10
It's called Sky here. Very British. I don't know if I watch an individual channel more than others. I think I watch TV2 more as they show all the shows I watch - Grey's, PP, Brothers & Sisters, TBBT, etc. Yeah, come to think of it. I watch more TV2 more than others I think. They tend to show some good movies too. Plus, they don't have News on it, which is nice.  |
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Post by Nico on Apr 27, 2011 11:09:04 GMT 10
We have Verizon Fios. There are to many channels though I mainly watch SciFi, ABC, NBC & FOX. I like NickJr for Emily. Premium channels We have Setanta (for football) on & Off , I hate the movie channels who wants to watch the same movies one after another and who has the time! I watch BBCAmerica alot to. |
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Post by shred on Apr 27, 2011 16:56:11 GMT 10
We don't have movie channels here as it's too expensive but I would love to have it. Everything I see the TV guide, I get envious with all the movies being shown.  |
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Post by Loz on Apr 27, 2011 18:11:39 GMT 10
I have every channel on FOX and all the FTA obviously. I have no idea what i watch the most. Maybe 10  On FOX i watch the sport channels a lot. The movies get a work out and i watch a bit of 111 (Hits), Arena, Syfy (such a dumb change with the spelling ), V and Music Max. I could not exist without FOX/Austar. The sport coverage on FTA is piss poor  |
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Post by shred on Apr 27, 2011 19:36:24 GMT 10
There are no sports coverage on our free-to-air channels unless it's a big game. They showed some World Cup games, rugby (though not 'live') and netball (also not 'live'). They showed the FA Cup Finals once which was shocking. On weekends they have some sort of motor sport which I HATE! I don't mind if they don't show any sports but I think I would die if I didn't have cable with the sport channels on it. |
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Post by Nico on Apr 28, 2011 0:14:44 GMT 10
Syfy (such a dumb change with the spelling ), I still refuse to change the spelling of that channel . NBC has most of my shows, I enjoy that channels lineup quite alot!. |
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Post by Lizzie on Apr 28, 2011 7:47:10 GMT 10
We have Foxtel at home, we've had it for years. I liked Arena, Lifestyle, 111 Hits, Fox8 for Simpsons, and TLC. Over here the house has Virgin cable TV, I don't really know what the channels are. As far as free to air TV goes, I mainly watch/watched ABC.
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Post by shred on Apr 28, 2011 9:26:33 GMT 10
Syfy (such a dumb change with the spelling ), I still refuse to change the spelling of that channel . NBC has most of my shows, I enjoy that channels lineup quite alot!. You have to change the name? Not the channel themselves? Odd. |
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Post by Nico on Apr 28, 2011 11:01:03 GMT 10
No silly Irene I just worded it weird, I meant when I type about the SciFi channel I use Scifi & not SyFy ! |
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Post by Bre on Apr 28, 2011 13:25:40 GMT 10
I hate that they changed their name. We have Charter On Demand cable. We get about 90ish channels and some cool Free On Demand things we can watch (including free movies, music, and new episodes of primetime TV shows are available to watch anytime after they air which is great for catching up). I mainly watch CBS, ABC, NBC and I love GSN (Game show network) and some various movie channels. We used to have premium cable (HBO, Showtime, etc.) which was incredible. I miss it. |
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Post by shred on Apr 28, 2011 13:53:47 GMT 10
No silly Irene I just worded it weird, I meant when I type about the SciFi channel I use Scifi & not SyFy ! Ok, that makes more sense.  I wished we get HBO here. They have great shows on it. But luckily NZ show those shows on their local channels so it's not too bad but we just have to wait for ages for it to turn up. |
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Post by Bre on Apr 28, 2011 13:57:03 GMT 10
Do they still show the sexy stuff and the swearing? I hate watching premium cable shows on regular cable channels because of the editing. For example, they show Curb Your Enthusiasm on FOX every night and they bleep out all of the swearing and even cut out a lot of the episode which bugs the crap outta me.
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Post by shred on Apr 28, 2011 16:50:16 GMT 10
They still do, yeah.
They don't censor Hell's Kitchen which is being shown quite early in the evening! At least with HBO/Showtime shows, they show it after 930pm.
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Post by Nico on Apr 30, 2011 12:14:50 GMT 10
They censor alot of stuff over here, to much. Sometimes they even go to the bother of changing the swear words to another word It makes me laugh they would never do that in Scotland. |
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Post by Loz on Apr 30, 2011 12:46:25 GMT 10
Australian TV doesn't censor anything much at all Look at Good News Week for example! |
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Post by Lizzie on Apr 30, 2011 23:26:31 GMT 10
Or the Chaser |
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Post by shred on May 1, 2011 13:44:54 GMT 10
They censor alot of stuff over here, to much. Sometimes they even go to the bother of changing the swear words to another word It makes me laugh they would never do that in Scotland. I'm surprise they censor a lot. I though American TV wouldn't. Do they only do that for shows shown at a certain time (early in the evening, etc)? |
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By Pay TV I mean cable yes... that you are paying for extra channels. It is called Foxtel or Austar here.
