Originally posted by drewhiggins[..]
It'd be awesome if the TV channels here put it on. Even if it's a delayed telecast.
Speaking of delayed telecasts, the footy was on Channel Ten about a week ago (just before the grand finals) and it was a delayed telecast. A delayed telecast in South Australia from AAMI Stadium in South Australia - where the game was! So we were getting a two-hour delay from somthing in our own state. How absolutely pathetic.
If it was the Superbowl it'd take 18 months to even be shown or mentioned - because of delayed telecasts, or have half an hour of ads for cleaning products and dating services. Bloody TV stations here are ridiculous how they work. The closest we ever got to any kind of concert (not even close, really) was the Make Poverty History Australia show with U2 and Pearl Jam and other awesome Australian bands. Not live, of course. Two days late.
ABC2 and ABC show some great music stuff though like Spicks and Specks which is a music quiz show and absolutely worth watching, some live shows which aren't cut to pieces and music history shows. Really impressive - it's the only decent stations left in Australia besides SBS (ABC is government-supported) and SBS is independent. ABC and SBS are the only channels who keep shows going and kept at the time they say: if they say Doctor Who will be on at 7:30pm Saturday, ABC and SBS rock for that.
What a load of crap!