Archive for August, 2006

Last week I emailed the Australian Pay-TV (cable) channel the How to Channel which is a channel that airs D.I.Y. programs about the show which this post is about, Attack of the Show. I have to say I am not a fan of the show but heard they were doing a week from Las Vegas so tuned in the Monday they were starting their week at the city. However the episode was a rerun from their studio filmed a while back. So I emailed them asking what was going on and they replied with an email some of which is below.

Unfortunately as of 1st September Attack of the Show will no longer be shown on the HOW TO Channel. We were licensed to show up until the week before the Vegas episodes. We have followed the numerous changes of Attack of the Show for sometime now and felt that it has moved so far from it’s original games, gizmos and gadgets format to more of a variety show that it no longer fits into the How To scope. Plus it’s content on occasions has bordered on inappropriate for the channel.

So basically that means Attack of the Show no longer airs in Australia, and as far as I know no longer anywhere outside of North America.

Other news this week I bought the game “Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories” the PS2 version. Finished it in three days. It wasn’t a bad game just a little too easy and quick. I look forward to the next two titles in the next 12 month to be released. Including “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories” and “Grand Theft Auto: IV“. The second of which is a brand new game based in a new city, state or country.

This site will soon have www.mikebeckham.org redirecting to this domain. So that means you will soon be able to access this site with three domain names; www.mikebeckham.net, www.mikebeckham.org and www.beckhamlive.com.

The PloyCast is hitting the airwaves on a british radio station this week. Along with this the show is now extended to an hour for the change. Keep subscribed the show is still offered through the feed as well on more stations to come. If your a station and interested please .

FOXTEL’s current AFL broadcast rights cease at the end of this year.

FOXTEL is in negotiations to secure subscription television rights to the AFL for next season and beyond, but the AFL television rights for the next five-year period from 2007 are controlled by the Seven and Ten Networks.

FOXTEL has made 2 offers to Seven and Ten since negotiations commenced in February this year for subscription TV rights, yet there is still no agreement.

The positions taken by Seven and Ten and the delays and uncertainty over the future have left FOXTEL with no option but to close its dedicated AFL FOX Footy Channel at the end of this season.

If FOXTEL can secure future subscription TV rights to the AFL, the coverage will become a core part of the new FOX Sports 3 channel to be launched on October 1 this year which can be accessed all FOXTEL Digital subscribers.

As reported in May this year on this blog, this is not a big suprise. I personally think having one channel dedicated to one sport is a bit of a waste. As said in the press release if they do get the rights next year as expected AFL will air on the newly created FOX Sports 3.

The one sad thing about this is the loss of jobs at the channel. Unless they get carried over to the new FOX Sports 3 or the new FOX Sports News Channel, they will lose their jobs at the end of September.