(11-02-2012 15:04 )HoneyRocks Wrote: In a roundabout way I can compare your comment about rotation of same girls with a similar thing of rotation of same presenters in commercial radio which I work in.
With Ofcom having let most of the big radio groups ditch local and regional radio shows and companies like Global, GMG, UTV make redundant sooo many jocks, it has drastically reduced the amount of presenter jobs in UK commercial radio, no longer an option for a career with any form of a secure job and with less posts around it's meaning so often those still lucky to have jobs end up flitting around the various groups in just the same way the same babes flit around their channels.
It's much the same with so many jobs in other industries nowadays.
Good points HoneyRocks, and I cant help wondering WTF Ofcom are doing and when they will get off their arses and enforce rules that matter instead of harassing babe channels. It seems every time a TV or radio channel asks to be let off some obligation like educational content, regional Ofcom just agrees instead of enforcing rules that are there for good reason. The way things are going every TV and radio channel will sound identical and be filled with cheap American reruns. There is a limit to the number of episodes of Friends reruns I can take in one day.
Did you know there is an EU rule saying TV channels must have 50% EU content within 5 years, but Ofcom let Sky1 off - they claimed they were a small channel.
Instead Ofcom seems to put 50% of its enforcement effort into babe channels, despite them accounting for less than 1% of complaints.
Why? Because babe channels are an easy target.
Is this the end for babe channels? They will limp on in some form or another, but it could be tame as heck. Its nearly 1am, but 4 channels are showing tape loops of photos with phone numbers, one babe is fully clothed and could walk down the street without attracting comment, 4 others have bras or tops on and the highlight on one channel is a babe putting a scarf on.
Expect tamer content and cutbacks. Fewer babes. More duplicate channels. More tape loops. Cheaper studios. Less classy babes. Longer shifts.
End of hot babe channels as we used to know them with close ups of skimpy knickers, nipple rubbing, 241s and fake but fun simulated sex? Its already happened.
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