Archive through July 25, 2002
TV ClubHouse: Archive: Archives Two:
COMPLAIN TO CBS ABOUT THE FEEDS:
Archive through July 25, 2002
Oregonfire | Wednesday, July 24, 2002 - 11:06 pm     It's happening now and is making me angry. It has been like that all day. A juicy argument was happening between R & C and they went to FOTH. They don't need to go to FOTH when they have so many other HGs they could cut to if they really wanted to. What a load of garbage. |
Goddess146 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 12:03 am     I juat came in at 12:02 to see if anything was happening on the feeds. What did I get? FOTH! I presume that it has been on FOTH since I last looked at 11:00 PM. This is nonsense. |
Oregonfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 12:05 am     It's been on and off FOTH, and with nothing to trigger FOTH, like singing copyrighted songs or talking about someone who didn't sign a release form. It's purely random, annoying FOTH. |
Jogging02 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 12:07 am     Grrrrrrrr!! coverage is awful tonight!! FOTH comes and goes, can't follow the convos, lots of coverage of silent players. Now FOTH for five minutes at least?!?! I am ticked off!!!! |
C1mag | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 12:07 am     That little foth song is driving me up the wall..... It's like a freakin knife through my ears!! |
Sunriverose | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 12:13 am     Hello everyone, just stopping in with my 2 cents worth. Because my puter is really old and full I couldn't get the RealOne thingy, I actually ended up with 2 accounts because I downloaded it, it wouldn't work so I uninstalled it, then downloaded it again. I had the 30 free + the 14 day free trial, but, like I said, it wouldn't work. So I uninstalled it again and am using the last season's real 8 to get the feeds at a cost of $24.95. Of course, they are now trying to bill me 9.95 for the original realone goldpass because the 14 day free trial is over. I don't want to get bogged down and fail to make my point, which is...This year is singularly and particularly awful. And I predict that no amount of emails or complaints will change anything. No matter how much we all mailed last year, I didn't feel that Shapiro was responsive. I think we are just regarded as some internet nuts who get a little too excited about a TV Show. I agree with Whit, that no matter how bad it is, it is entertainment, 3 months worth, for 25 bucks. So I try to keep it in perspective. I'm a smoker (I know, I know...curses upon me) and I spend about $33.00 for a carton of cigs every 7-10 days. (however, if Amy keeps bi*ching, it's gonna be more like every 5-7 days) LOL As far as what the powers that be are thinking in doing such really crummy feeds this year, who knows. But as my dear old granny used to say, "If you're complaining cause your head hurts, either stop hitting yourself in the head with that hammer or quit bi*ching about it. This week, I've decided to keep hitting myself in the head, and try not to bi*ch. |
Gadzooks | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 12:33 am     It is my feeling that CBS is guilty of consumer fraud. When you pay for a service....it should work without difficulty and it should be uncensored. The only way I could forgive CBS for their lousy web coverage is if it was free....the way it was originally. Then you can't complain...but to pay and get screwed this way is absolutely criminal. Hey lawyers out there.....any way to sue CBS in a class action suit? |
Oregonfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 01:08 am     Yet again, FOTH for no reason. Josh was doing a snoring/Popeye impression amd that *might* have been the reason, but that's such a lame reason that it makes no sense. Roddy did say something about if Tonya leaves tomorrow, etc. I think that today they have been worried about revealing who is the evicted HGs on the LFs. |
Crossfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:08 am     Those who say suck it up and deal, it is cheaper than a family trip to the movies, that is true, and it is a valid point of view...however...it could be better, much better with little effort on their part. The way it is going, it sounds like it is very frustrating. Why do that when you don't have to. I don't really think they are getting all the advantages they think they are by doing what they are doing. Its not like people who are paying for the feeds are going to miss the show. |
Oregonfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:05 am     Frankly, I'd like to know the Nelson numbers vs. the net viewer numbers. I don't know much about these things, but am curious. It just reminds me of the whole Napster thing. The record companies don't want to get with the MP3 program and change their business model, so they villify MP3 file sharing sites. Meanwhile, a huge consumer demographic is derided or ignored. Even someone like Chi Chi's actor brother could benefit from some net exposure. How many more people are aware of this guy now because of that thread about him the other day? It sounds silly but true. A huge marketing/exposure avenue is being ignored. Anyway, am rambling. Let them be fools. |
Jesse | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:22 am     Webster's Dictionary New Word Candidate: FOTH or FOH . . . I have a preference for FOTH . . . it has a longer history and when you read it, you can silently say it to yourself . . . has a begining, middle and end. FOH has no end and when I try to say it, it sounds like a dirty word. |
Oregonfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:30 am     FOTH has character, and has taken on a life of its own. It's like naming a hurricane or something equally random in its FOTHness. "How very FOTH" could mean any senseless, random act or a cover up. I have really been awake too long now. |
Crossfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:32 am     Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like you have been up for about 3 days straight now. (I'm not doing much better.) |
Oregonfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:37 am     Actually I've been up for three straight nights, with some sleep during the day. I know, it's terrible! I do get to see all the night action on the live feeds though, and I like having that angle. |
Crossfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 05:01 am     Hehehe. I thought so. I've been doing more or less the same, minus the feeds, which gives me too much time to torment everyone here. |
Makays | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 06:14 am     Same song and dance as last year. |
Goddess146 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:28 pm     4:25 PM BBT. According to the live feed reports: two hours on FOTH and counting. Somebody remind me what we paid for when we bought the feeds. |
Cajunrambler | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:32 pm     "Somebody remind me what we paid for when we bought the feeds." Arnie's new car. |
Keiffer | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:33 pm     You know if there was anything good about BB1 it was that we got live feeds even during the live shows. WHat are they trying to hide from us? People practicing the challenge? Perhpas scripting it so that eith Tonya or Josh whichever stays wins the contest like most people not voted out do? |
Aerojunki | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:36 pm     I saw more on the feeds on BB1 when they were free! |
Karuuna | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:47 pm     oh c'mon! You've got full nudity; explicit sex talk; and a porno movie in the making. Most websites charge you $24.95 a month for that! Karuuna thinks perhaps she ought to step away from the computer for an extended time out |
Cajunrambler | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:57 pm     If they showed any nudity, it was purely accidental. The censors are pretty quick to change cameras, pan around or go FOTH. Remember this is in the USA, not Australia or UK. |
Goddess146 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 05:08 pm     TO: Everyone watching the "live" show Please make a list of the sponsors of the show in your area. We know that complaining to CBS/ASP will do no good. It is time to move the complaints to where they will work: in the pcoketbook. Note the sponsors. List them here. We will find out the officers of these sponsor company and complain/boycott/picket or whatever is needed. |
Verdana | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 05:13 pm     If you have a problem with the use of the words "baby and honey" please skip my post below: Well baby, I've never seen anything like this I'm here to tell you. Someone said we saw more in BB1 when the feeds were free. That's true honey. Now precious I haven't been at my PC every waking hour today but everytime I walked by it or sat down at it that man Shapiro was feeding me the front door. Maybe we should change this to a gardening forum and discuss the plants in front of the house or maybe the pebbles and rocks, since it looks like that's all Shapiro is planning on showing us from now until who-knows-when. I'm disgusted big time baby with these feeds. What a waste of $25.00! Now honey the bird bath on the other side of the walkway must be low on water since we've not seen a single bird trot by all day. In fact, we've not seen any life at all outside that house itself some man hosing down the front of something. I couldn't catch that man's name over that lovely music they play all day, over and over. CBS should visit some CD stores so they could at least change the music a bit on their FOTH "radio station." |
Gritss | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 06:22 pm     Goddess, this thread is about the live feeds. Why would the sponsors of the TV show care? Let's do some simple math. Show gets what, maybe 8 mln viewers? LFs get what, 50K or less? Divide, carry a one, etc, and I come up with less than 1%. Would you, as an advertiser, care? |
|