Just remember freeview viewers, that a channel called BS2 is already on Freeview Ch 177, it used to show adverts for various BS services, it now broadcasts the live Asian Connections show for a hour or so in the early morning, so if they could acquire a few more hard to acquire freeview air time hours from somewhere, it could be broadcast on freeview as well.
Cellcast/BS already have a ready made channel with a paid for freeview channel slot and licence to put it on .
I notice right now that Asian Connections is being broadcast on the Sky BS Starlets/BS2 channel 945, according to the program guide it will broadcast from 8am to 2pm every day .
(06-09-2014 09:49 )Barney Stinson Wrote: [ -> ]Why do people keep complaining that they can't watch on Freeview, if you don't want to subscribe to sky you can get Freesat From Sky for a one off fee http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/ or you could even get the other Freesat or a Generic FTA Box.
£175 just to watch one extra Babestation channel?
You need your head examined
Does anyone know who uses the 176 & 177 channels during the other 23 hours of the day ?
(06-09-2014 11:33 )Tractor boy Wrote: [ -> ]Does anyone know who uses the 176 & 177 channels during the other 23 hours of the day ?
Freeview Channels 176 (Blue) and 177 (BS2) Timeshare air time with Freeview channel 17 (Really) i believe .
(06-09-2014 03:08 )trevor format Wrote: [ -> ]I'm surprised it was only given a month though.
I see that several posters have said this, but I'm going to go against the trend and say I'm not surprised. To me the channel didn't seem to create that much interest.
I think this forum is a good indicator of the level of interest in a channel and if you take the recently closed Studio 66 USA as a comparison its main thread received 114,000 views in 3 months. Compare that to Starlets of Babestation, discontinued after 1 month when it's main thread had reached 15,000 views.
That's a big difference - 38,000 views a month against 15,000 views in a month - and yet Studio 66 USA has still closed. To me that says that the end of the starlets channel should not be seen as a surprise.
(06-09-2014 11:27 )The Silent Majority Wrote: [ -> ]£175 just to watch one extra Babestation channel?
You need your head examined
You get 240+ FTA channels, quality hardware and the latest sky guide with free updates.
But you shouldn't complain that you can't watch on FreeView its like complaining that you cant watch because you don't have a TV.
As I said a while back, I always saw the Starlets name as a way of launching a new channel, making sure everyone mew where it was, and then it just becoming a standard channel.
I agree with the poster who said its good that its integrating because the format was a bit restrictive as you had lots of non-interactive 241s and I'm just desperately wanting to see Amy naked (which just didn't look like it would happen on Starlets). danger is of course the "Starlets" girls loose out on screentime to the usual suspects.
Failure compared to S66 USA? Well BS didn't lose any money setting up a channel and studio in the US when any idiot could see it wasn't going to work. Cynical marketing ploy? - possibly
(06-09-2014 13:17 )hairbald Wrote: [ -> ]Failure compared to S66 USA? Well BS didn't lose any money setting up a channel and studio in the US when any idiot could see it wasn't going to work. Cynical marketing ploy? - possibly
Also, BS didn't lose some of their top girls when this channel was set up either, unlike STD 66 who when they set STD 66 USA looked to have lost some of their existing girls to rival channels to make way for the USA Porn stars .
So not only did they spend money to set up studios and a show broadcast from the USA, they lost some top girls.to their competitors .
And not only that, the USA Sky broadcast channel is under investigation by Ofcom, if they are found in breach it could possibly cost STD 66 money .
So all in all the USA experiment could end up being a right disaster .
(06-09-2014 13:04 )Barney Stinson Wrote: [ -> ]But you shouldn't complain that you can't watch on FreeView its like complaining that you cant watch because you don't have a TV.
True. All TVs have Freeview these days.
(06-09-2014 13:17 )hairbald Wrote: [ -> ]Cynical marketing ploy? - possibly
Babestation are nowhere near as cynical as you make out and nowhere near as stupid either. What you describe as a marketing ploy would be such a monumentally stupid marketing ploy that it's hard to believe that given 5 minutes they couldn't think of at least 20 better marketing ideas.