{"id":432,"date":"2003-09-18T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T10:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/more4\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T10:53:26","slug":"more4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/more4\/","title":{"rendered":"More4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Channel 4 have <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,7493,1044280,00.html\">announced<\/a> their new channel plan, using the space they have sitting on the Freeview platform (as well as securing cable and satellite coverage). With a working title of More 4 it&#8217;ll be aimed at 30+ year olds, carrying all the property and wife-swap type programming which Channel 4 currently fills its airwaves with.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll also be more acquired programming, but it&#8217;ll have to make ends meet with advertiser revenue.<br \/>\nIn particular, Broadcast reports that The West Wing is likely to switch to More 4, which isn&#8217;t too surprising. I&#8217;ve long argued that programmes like this are at total odds with the rest of the E4 offering. I watched it the other night, and there are three commercial breaks, each of which is top and tailed with a trailer for another E4 or C4 programme. The only conceivable crossover show was Six Feet Under, and maybe repeats of Sex and the City. Then there was a rerun of Queer as Folk, but beyond that it was stuff like The Salon. Lots of crossover there then. Still, at least E4 have now dropped their pointless &#8220;direct&#8221; (so not live then) coverage of US Big Brother, which doesn&#8217;t involve viewer voting, and was fantastically boring. Well worth the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.real.com\/partners\/bigbrother\/index.html?pcode=bb4&#038;cpath=R1R&#038;rsrc=cbs.bb4\">$19.95<\/a> that CBS charge for online coverage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Channel 4 have announced their new channel plan, using the space they have sitting on the Freeview platform (as well as securing cable and satellite coverage). With a working title of More 4 it&#8217;ll be aimed at 30+ year olds, carrying all the property and wife-swap type programming which Channel 4 currently fills its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}