Wednesday, September 08, 2004
A post genuinely about communication and entertainment? Surely not!
So, I was looking at the BBC News website and I found this hillarious article about the new Advert Channel that some people will be (un)lucky enough to get on digital TV in the near future.
An incredible idea? Well, as the article says there have been plenty of 'funny ad' shows in the past. So what is it that I find so funny about this channel? Well, depsite being the Advert Channel, they aren't being funded by adverts! No, they are screening adverts all day but these aren't being paid for by the advertisers because they are older or foriegn adverts and there are no normal ad breaks. Confused? I am.
Anyway, to make their money, they are running those competitions where you can win a playstation or something if you spend eight hundred quadzillion pounds answering a question on a premium rate phone line! Something I find far, far more irritating than ad breaks. You know the ones.
Who used to date Justin Timberlake?
1. Britney Spears
2. Tony Blair
3. As Wittgenstein said; Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Phone 0891.. etc.
Who on earth phones in for those things? Mind you, I have a remote control and the BBC so I never need to watch standard adverts, which does beg the question as to what's more mind numbing, 5 minutes of adverts on Sky 1 or 5 minutes of Changing Rooms.
An incredible idea? Well, as the article says there have been plenty of 'funny ad' shows in the past. So what is it that I find so funny about this channel? Well, depsite being the Advert Channel, they aren't being funded by adverts! No, they are screening adverts all day but these aren't being paid for by the advertisers because they are older or foriegn adverts and there are no normal ad breaks. Confused? I am.
Anyway, to make their money, they are running those competitions where you can win a playstation or something if you spend eight hundred quadzillion pounds answering a question on a premium rate phone line! Something I find far, far more irritating than ad breaks. You know the ones.
Who used to date Justin Timberlake?
1. Britney Spears
2. Tony Blair
3. As Wittgenstein said; Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Phone 0891.. etc.
Who on earth phones in for those things? Mind you, I have a remote control and the BBC so I never need to watch standard adverts, which does beg the question as to what's more mind numbing, 5 minutes of adverts on Sky 1 or 5 minutes of Changing Rooms.
# posted by Mike @ 14:37 
