[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Sam1994

They really shouldn't do that. What a waste of time that is. They're all probably going to the same person, who will just need to keep pressing send to give the same automated response out.

No we have 9 different emails and sending to them.

[Locke.]

No point in watching it then. I base who I support on how they are as people, and without a live feed there is no way to find out what they are really like.

[Brekkie]

I've always thought the C4 show is for the highlights, the live feed is for the lowlights - and often it's the lowlights where you find out more about the HMs.

[*mazedsalv**]

Most people are saying they will defenitley not watch if there is no feed on DS. C4 are seriously stupid if they think the ratings will go above 2m without the feed.

[Xander]

Originally posted by *mazedsalv**
DS are going on an email protest thing, they are sending as many emails as they can (a huge load of members) saying that we want the live feed back

What ever they do, its not going to make a difference at all.
DS are just wasting there time.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Xander

What ever they do, its not going to make a difference at all.
DS are just wasting there time.

Yeahh well C4 are idiots then! They see the forums and dont do anything about it.... ooohhh how i really want BB10 to do soo bad if they are going to treat us like that.

[Xander]

Originally posted by *mazedsalv**

Yeahh well C4 are idiots then! They see the forums and dont do anything about it.... ooohhh how i really want BB10 to do soo bad if they are going to treat us like that.

I mean seriously, Its only live feed...
If its there decision to do that then fine, nothing can't be done about it. You can't just say there treating you like that because its there decision to cut live feed. BB10 will probably do bad live feed/no live feed either way the shows gone downhill, its boring, predictable, and loosing lots of viewers.
The reason why live feed will probably be cut is that a minority watch it, imo there is nothing interesting about it...

Originally posted by *mazedsalv**
Most people are saying they will defenitley not watch if there is no feed on DS. C4 are seriously stupid if they think the ratings will go above 2m without the feed.

Also how can there highlight ratings rely on live feed!?

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Xander

I mean seriously, Its only live feed...
If its there decision to do that then fine, nothing can't be done about it. You can't just say there treating you like that because its there decision to cut live feed. BB10 will probably do bad live feed/no live feed either way the shows gone downhill, its boring, predictable, and loosing lots of viewers.
The reason why live feed will probably be cut is that a minority watch it, imo there is nothing interesting about it...

I think it makes a huge difference. C4 have all complained about it too. On DS a poll with about 1050 voters have had 980 of them say they want live feed back(91%) otherwise they wont watch.C4 forums are the same as DS and are furious too. It might not seem like a big deal, but with this many people wanting it back...BB10 is doomed for failure if they dont bring it back.

[Xander]

Originally posted by *mazedsalv**

I think it makes a huge difference. C4 have all complained about it too. On DS a poll with about 1050 voters have had 980 of them say they want live feed back(91%) otherwise they wont watch.C4 forums are the same as DS and are furious too. It might not seem like a big deal, but with this many people wanting it back...BB10 is doomed for failure if they dont bring it back.

Funny how you keep referring to the DS all the time...
Obviously 980 of those "DS" members need to find something better to do with there free time and stop watching so much BB Live feed.
I couldn't really care, its more of a similar situation with when Russell & Dermot Left.. the shows lost viewers, people complained, but most people got on with it, the show went on...

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Xander

I mean seriously, Its only live feed...
If its there decision to do that then fine, nothing can't be done about it. You can't just say there treating you like that because its there decision to cut live feed. BB10 will probably do bad live feed/no live feed either way the shows gone downhill, its boring, predictable, and loosing lots of viewers.
The reason why live feed will probably be cut is that a minority watch it, imo there is nothing interesting about it...

Also how can there highlight ratings rely on live feed!?

Biased editing makes people want to switch off... at least in BB9 with the editing people could see who was being edited badly (thats why Rachel won as she was about 5 x more fun on live feed).... for BB10 there could be a really intresting and nice HM that could be edited as a bitch... or a agressive one that is edited as a nice person. Eg. If BB7 had no live feed, then Aisleyne would have been gone as soon as she was up, it was live feed viewers who saw her real side that kept her in, the edits were soo vile to her, 95% of her on the screen would be bad stuff about her, as opposed to what she was actually like on LF... and that made the producers furious because they were too busy trying to edit Pete as an angel.

[Tom]

Originally posted by *mazedsalv**
Most people are saying they will defenitley not watch if there is no feed on DS. C4 are seriously stupid if they think the ratings will go above 2m without the feed.

Less than 0.1m watch the live feed, the vast majority of the viewers only watch the highlights and its always been that way. The 1000 people on DS will have no impact on the overall figures.

Complaining about it is a pointless exercise. People can boycott the show all they want, it won't have any effect especially if they don't have a BARB box

[Brekkie]

Nope, less than 100,000 watch the live feed at any one time, but like the news channels for example, people dip in and out of it as they please, meaning over the week the number of people who actually watch the feed for at least 15 minutes or so is actually in the millions.

It affects the highlights show because it's effectively a 24-hour promo for it. People are more likely to watch the highlights if they've caught a few minutes of live action earlier in the day, or if something which happened live has created a bit of a buzz online and in the press to generate interest. Without the promotion people aren't reminded BB is on, so just don't care if they miss the highlights that night, and ultimately don't care if they watch any of the series at all.

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Brekkie
Nope, less than 100,000 watch the live feed at any one time, but like the news channels for example, people dip in and out of it as they please, meaning over the week the number of people who actually watch the feed for at least 15 minutes or so is actually in the millions.

It affects the highlights show because it's effectively a 24-hour promo for it. People are more likely to watch the highlights if they've caught a few minutes of live action earlier in the day, or if something which happened live has created a bit of a buzz online and in the press to generate interest. Without the promotion people aren't reminded BB is on, so just don't care if they miss the highlights that night, and ultimately don't care if they watch any of the series at all.

Thats what im saying. People every now and then go and watch live feed and without forums seem about 3/10 of what its like with live feed.... people just lose intrest without the feed.

[Tom]

Originally posted by Brekkie
Nope, less than 100,000 watch the live feed at any one time, but like the news channels for example, people dip in and out of it as they please, meaning over the week the number of people who actually watch the feed for at least 15 minutes or so is actually in the millions.

It affects the highlights show because it's effectively a 24-hour promo for it. People are more likely to watch the highlights if they've caught a few minutes of live action earlier in the day, or if something which happened live has created a bit of a buzz online and in the press to generate interest. Without the promotion people aren't reminded BB is on, so just don't care if they miss the highlights that night, and ultimately don't care if they watch any of the series at all.

I don't imagine the reach is great either. What people fail to understand is that forums are not representative of general opinion. Go and ask any casual viewer, who make up 99% of any TV audience, about what they think about the 24/7 live feed. I bet some would even answer they didn't know there was one! "The forums want" does not translate as "the public want".

[Brekkie]

The forums are the fanbase though, and the days where it's just geeks and freaks discussing online are well and truly over (unless you consider yourself a geek/freak Tom?). The BB target audience is very internet savvy, and digitally clued up too - so the forums are actually very reflective of BB's target audience.

[Nutters22000]

I used to watch a bit of the livefeed and sometimes you saw stuff that wasn't shown on the edited programe at night. I will miss it. Iwork shifts so used to put it on in the morning for an hour before going to work.

[Billy]

When you think about it, theres only like 3m people watching it, so combining members from here and DS that discuss BB there's probs over a million people that makes up a third of the actual fanbase.

[BBDodge]

I think the alleged e-mail from C4 on Ds was a hoax. It doesn't sound like an official C4 e-mail. No-one else has reported any similar response.

[arista]

Originally posted by BBDodge
I think the alleged e-mail from C4 on Ds was a hoax. It doesn't sound like an official C4 e-mail. No-one else has reported any similar response.

Yes
I hope so.