[mythtv-users] Australian TV Guides & rattling your member's cages

Paul Andreassen paulx at andreassen.com.au
Mon Jul 17 06:40:00 UTC 2006


On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:22 pm, Shanon Mulley wrote:
> No - if you are going to do anything, you have to write real life letters.
>
> Emails will do little, and an online petition will do even less.
> (seriously - how much effort are they to make? - very little).
>
> But at least with a letter, the polititian knows that someone has gone
> to the effort of writing a real letter.
>
> On 7/17/06, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
>
> <michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au> wrote:
> > How about doing one better and starting an online petition?
> >
> > M.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen Hocking" <stephen.hocking at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 3:18 PM
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Australian TV Guides & rattling your member's
> > cages
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I've been thinking that perhaps it might be worthwhile writing to
> > > Helen Coonan, the minister responsible for communication & TV, about
> > > these issues. It could be made part of the licensing conditions that
> > > TV stations provide a timely & accurate source of program information,
> > > as more & more people are moving to PVRs. I can't be the only one
> > > annoyed by the way that execrable "Big Brother" overuns its
> > > timeslot.The Govt is in the middle of making something of a fuss about
> > > digital TV, so a letter writing campaign may have some effect.

I believe the polititian would have to wait until an court cases are hear 
before they can change anything.

Paul
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