qwertyuiop
Well-Known Member
According to the business section of the Telegraph. B o l l ox as I was looking forward to watching the highlights of this season's eventing over the winter.
Oh no, that's a huge shame.
Horse and Country started off ok but then as someone on the digital forum states the constant repeats of NH etc are just getting silly!
I did like looking at the SJ and of course the XC but again sometimes the programmes on during the day and I don't have sky+ and haven't got a clue how to program the vcr without its remote which lost itself years ago!
I just heard from someone involved that the new owner of H&H screwed the guy who came up with the idea and he took her to court. The court case was on Monday and the new owner who is worth $90,000,000 made the company go bankrupt on Friday night rather than risk paying out to the old owner in court. My dad says the new owner will then buy the old company back for a £1 and start again but we won't even know there has been any changes. Doesn't seem fair but I guess that is why the owner has so much money.
How do people know all of this.....there are alot of facts and figures being thrown around i am curious to know where it all comes from ?????
I actually thought H&C started abysmally and had only gotten better over the past year. At first, the listings were an absolute mess. You would add programmes to your Sky planner as reminders/recordings, only for them to disappear. The reason was that schedules would chop and change every single day. I contacted them loads of times and never received a reply. Technical difficulties were also a major issue. It took them forever to get things sorted. At least now, it is run a lot more smoothly and competently. They had greatly improved their output too until Rural TV came along.
It was the only reason I got sky, and now I hardly ever watch it, I have, NCIS, Bones, Chuck, True Blood and countless other great stuff, why waste my time watching repeats of repeats, Carl Ester dressage demo from a 3 year old your horse live was on there the other day, I hadn't seen it before, but I bet the rest of you were groaning at the TV and reaching for the remote!
Gosh I had the same problem when I tried to contact them. On their website at one time they were requesting suggestions from viewers. I must have emailed them at least twice with suggestions, and then various telephone calls and further emails but to no avail. I never had the decency of a reply and this made me really angry. I probably made at least five differing phone calls about whether they were going to be filming the futurity last year at Solihull Riding Club as they had filmed the year before and my friends horse had scored a premium in 2008. Last year, 2009, he was loose jumping as a three year old and we were eager to record it, should it be filmed. I never had correct response about that either. Eventually after many phone calls and having to try every department in the building courtesy of their stupid phone messaging system "if you want to speak to *** press 1, if you require *** press 2, etc, etc" I finally got through to 'programming' who didn't have a clue if they were filming there or not!!!
As for the suggestions for future programmes they must have had some stick off people other than myself about not replying to people as they have this on their website now : "Please note we can only accept programme ideas for our channel from TV production companies, as we don't have an in-house TV production unit at H&C."
Their lack of people skills, communication and their evident lack of sticking to the programmes they posted on their schedule have stopped me watching them.