Studio 66 - Can it get any worse?

(22-05-2014 23:58 )Whynot Wrote:  Is that the sound of the barrel being scraped at the bottom? ..... surely it cannot sink lower than tonight

No it wasn't the barrel scraping you heard.
It was the sound of another bed set being moved into place followed by a clunk as one of the babes accidentally dropped their phone due to waving it a little too forcefully .

(23-05-2014 09:44 )hairbald Wrote:  See Rachel had a little tantrum on twitter about S66 cancelling her show this morning; used some choice phrases largely questioning there competence. Tweet has now gone (may have been wine fueled).

Ship will sink if they piss the girls off. Lily had a rant about being the only girl on a few weeks ago. Its a small world and the girls talk about how they are treated by their employers; I'm sure a once a year trip abroad and a party or two does little to help your moral when its 4.30 in the morning, you're been on your tod for the last hour and the cameraman has pissed off to chat to his mates.

I've worked for a number of big organisations and you can see cultural decay happening in them; standards slip, attitudes become poor, and then they do go bust. Good companies didn't go bust in the recent recession; the crap ones did. Babeshows are a shrinking market so the question is who is commercially the smallest and weakest of the big 3? My money is on Elite because its clear they have little ability to invest as BS and RLC have done; they survive I think on Jamie talent for getting some top notch babes onto the screens over the years. His focus seems to be elsewhere now (he's talking about some new website to be launched).

Time will tell, but I think the loss of S66 would be a real blow

Think the new website your on about hairbald is the new s66 one that i presume will be launched soon once the vids and pics from this years Marbella shoot are ready and will replace the current s66 website. Jamie did say he was focusing again now on s66 having been away redecorating his house. Hopefully this will mean things get better on s66 soon

Agree with you about the s66 ship sinking if they keep pissing their babes off like Rachel today. Babes will leave and tell any potential new s66 babes not to bother joining and will put s66 in a tailspin that will see it go out of business. Hopefully they will stop doing it soon, as you say time will tell

i still see people talking in the thread of 66 being one of the big 3 but for me its now a big 2 bs and RLC have rosters, sets, production and finances that 66 can only dream of, and i think 66 need to accept this and start trying to make a good show at the level that are now,
a good example for me is the alleged very big money Lucy and Yasmine are on, both girls only want to work part time on the shows which in the bigger picture is not helping the channel, they could have got 3-4 girls from xxp for the same money and they would have been happy to work 2-3 days a week which would have over all generated higher income for the channel,
i don't see the point in people asking for new sets as i don't think they have the space or money to make it work, what they should do is spend what they have on getting enough girls to cover all the shifts every night, i think they should follow RLC's model of 1 girl 1 channel a night, get tough with the girls and tell them they are going to be doing 8 hours a night with only 2 20 minute breaks, and if some of the high earners who have been their a long long time don't like it let them go, xxp have shown there are lots of good girls on cam sites who can shine given the chance on tv,
next they need some new head producers on each shift who will stop the crew spending all night not working as they should,
i still think their is time to turn 66 around but they need to make major changes fast, if they want to stay independent do some or all of the above but if they want to keep trying to compete then they need to find someone to bring money as only them and storm are not part of a bigger concern,
i don't want another babe channel to die so i hope someone their is willing to make some changes

does anyone know why they still have 2 channels broadcasting about 4 hours of day show in total on 935/6? And I mean know, not can anyone speculate Who owns the channels? And what is the point in mirroring output on them?

(23-05-2014 14:29 )RatedR Wrote:  Who owns the channels?

the channels are owned by Satellite Entertainment Limited, i think they are the same lot who use to own sportxxx,

(23-05-2014 13:42 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  Jamie did say he was focusing again now on s66 having been away redecorating his house. Hopefully this will mean things get better on s66 soon

Agree with you about the s66 ship sinking if they keep pissing their babes off like Rachel today. Babes will leave and tell any potential new s66 babes not to bother joining and will put s66 in a tailspin that will see it go out of business. Hopefully they will stop doing it soon, as you say time will tell

Even by your usual standards Rammy, that's a lame excuse you're peddling from Jamie

If he focused a bit better on S66, he'd be rewarded with the money to pay a decorator to paint his house rather than using up his own time doing it himself

What S66 appear desperate for is someone like Beth over at BS who's repeatedly been willing to cover at just a few hours' notice any gap in the schedules caused by illness, other work commitments or any other excuse.

Even the often-scorned Storm tidied up their schedule without any fuss last night when just one of their twins was joined by Penny who'd announced a Saturday-show much earlier in the week but then tweeted yesterday teatime that she'd be on last night (and, if Penny's still based on the Sussex-coast, that's a fair bit of travel to factor into any short-notice shift-swapping).

Too many of the babes on S66 currently give the impression they're merely turning up as individuals for work (and wages) instead of the general impression on the other channels that it's an enjoyable way of team-working for a living.

(23-05-2014 14:53 )winsaw Wrote:  

(23-05-2014 14:29 )RatedR Wrote:  Who owns the channels?

the channels are owned by Satellite Entertainment Limited, i think they are the same lot who use to own sportxxx,

The channels did change from the sport names that Bluebird kept on using, to Fantasy and Dirty Talk and another, before that one vanished. Were they not TVX names at one stage?

(23-05-2014 14:53 )winsaw Wrote:  

(23-05-2014 14:29 )RatedR Wrote:  Who owns the channels?

the channels are owned by Satellite Entertainment Limited, i think they are the same lot who use to own sportxxx,

The Sky adult channel slots of 935/6 used to be owned by SEL winsaw but not any longer, the SEL company ceased trading or went bust last year, SEL handed back the licence to Ofcom or had it revoked
it's in this Ofcom licence bulletin here : http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/tv-broadca...tes/112013

The channels of 935/6 are licensed to Northern & shell/Portland Enterprises i believe, the same company's behind TVX/Red Hot, but i'm not 100 % certain of that.
It looks like TVX took over the channel numbers but not the licence that Sport XXX/Bluebird channels used to broadcast from .

STD 66/Elite TV have used the licence and channels owned by the TVX group before, most notably the freeview channel owned by TVX that Elite used to broadcast from .

(23-05-2014 15:10 )mr mystery Wrote:  

(23-05-2014 14:53 )winsaw Wrote:  

(23-05-2014 14:29 )RatedR Wrote:  Who owns the channels?

the channels are owned by Satellite Entertainment Limited, i think they are the same lot who use to own sportxxx,

They used to be winsaw but not any longer, the SEL company ceased trading or went bust last year, SEL handed back the licence to Ofcom last year or had it revoked
it's in this Ofcom licence bulletin here : http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/tv-broadca...tes/112013

The channels are licensed to Northern & shell/Portland Enterprises i believe, the same company's behind TVX/Red Hot, but i'm not % 100 certain of that .

I think you're right. I had a look at the frequency and when you scan the frequency of Flirt TV, which vanished, it's still found by Sky along with all TVX and Red Hot channels. Still non the wiser about why s66 broadcasts on them. They surely must be paying someone to do so

(23-05-2014 14:55 )whangie Wrote:  If he focused a bit better on S66, he'd be rewarded with the money to pay a decorator to paint his house rather than using up his own time doing it himself

Excellent point.

Jamie's business partner (on phone): "Jamie, get back to the studio and sort things out. The business is crumbling!"

Jamie: "Chill out blood, I'll get down when I finish dis. I've got an important decision to make and I need your help, innit."

Business Partner: "Of course, Jamie. Is it to do with the cash flow?"

Jamie: "No way bro, you know I don't do dat business shit! Magnolia or Dulux Calico for the bedrooms? Can't make up my mind."