I love the Sci-Fi channel, and I am not alone (he he). A short while ago, MultiChoice announced this, in the most condescending voice I have heard next to Lt Riker’s:
“Operation of the Sci Fi channel is no longer economically viable in Southern Africa, and MultiChoice and Universal Studios Networks have agreed for the channel to be withdrawn from the PAS 7 DStv Bouquet”
What! No! What a rolling big fat lie (they’ve now added “reasons of confidentiality” to their statement)! But again, I am not alone. There are more than 25 disgusted MultiChoice comments on the local hellopeter.com already, livid about the closing of this channel, along with most people I have spoken to. And it’s their response to the hordes of complaints that makes this ordeal even worse.
They chime the same copy-and-paste message about being “sorry for any inconvenience and frustration caused” and “DSTV thanks you for being such a loyal supporter” as a response to the complains. And they all end in
“MultiChoice Cares”
Sure you do.
Personally, I find 40% of the value I get out of DSTV comes from this channel, so please explain how this next bit of C’&P-ing is supposed to placate me:
“MultiChoice is also continually adding value to the DStv Bouquet with broadcasts such as the Big Brother channel, the Idols channel, etc. This year we are bringing you 7 dedicated Summer Olympic channels, a 24 x 7 Project Fame channel and an extended broadcast of The Block. We are always giving you more.”
I don’t understand why they think supporters of this fantasy niche will find compensation in reality programming and sport. Adding value? Giving you more? My arse.
I now know two things:
1) My Sci-Fi is gone forever
2) I no longer have any faith in MultiChoice, and I never will again
They obviously care so little about their customers (us), that they will find themselves dead in the water as soon as a challenger arrives. In fact, people are already braying for a saviour.
I have started a bit of a petition, if you would like to add your name, mail me. Resistance is not futile!
Make it so.
June 30th, 2004 at 1:45 pm
Trekkies unite!!!
June 30th, 2004 at 2:00 pm
Just wait until they dump one of your programs. See how it feels when you get “MultiChoice Cares”ed.
July 1st, 2004 at 11:12 am
Please bring it back, I am going insane with my husband having nothing to watch.
July 1st, 2004 at 12:34 pm
SCI-FI rocks, where else can u see the best movies & old TV series???
If they take it away, we’ll be stuck watching VH1 & the Parlement channel *shudder*
July 2nd, 2004 at 9:33 am
There is little to say. When I watched tv I predominatedly watched SciFi now with it gone. I sent them notification of cancelation.
I do think that it is time to start a boycott but then SA consumers don’t have a backbone
July 2nd, 2004 at 2:39 pm
That’s true in part, but I have been receiving a huge response from angry, fed-up people like ourselves. There’s still hope.
July 2nd, 2004 at 3:30 pm
haha i was just thinking about subscribing to dstv. thankfully multichoice have made my decision for me. thats R400 pm saved for me, thank you
July 2nd, 2004 at 4:33 pm
I have an idea, get comedy central instead, and maybe i will start watching DSTV again.
July 2nd, 2004 at 7:38 pm
Sci-fi is one of four channels that I actually watch. Pity 25% of my viewing will be lost now. Please, rather drop reality channel or Food channel or – PARLIAMENT CHANNEL…
July 4th, 2004 at 9:13 pm
and i doubt they are going to reduce the monthly subscription…. thieves !
July 5th, 2004 at 4:19 pm
Yes, I also would like sci-fi back. I cant see why they dont take away that clasic movie channel insted!
July 7th, 2004 at 4:06 pm
I have also cancelled my subscription because of the removal of the Sci-Fi channel and general rubbish programming on DSTV. Let’s see how “economically viable” their decision becomes when enough people do the same. . .
July 8th, 2004 at 11:22 pm
NoChoice sucks. They’ve been messing their customers around for eons. In the past it was their FUTURE-PROOF Pace DVR500 decoder which froze every time you did the EEPG or couldn’t get channels or proper reception while the new one did. NoChoice did away with the only source of MST3k and Anime in South Africa. To heck with NoChoice ^^;
July 9th, 2004 at 11:34 am
So what are we going to do about this?
Sending them e-mails is not going to get anything done because they just send back the same copy and pasted rubbish to everybody.
Something a little bit more contructive needs to be done so that they can catch the wake up they so sorely need.
August 5th, 2004 at 12:15 pm
Ower attempts are futile, only if they had a oposision will it make a difference..
November 19th, 2004 at 11:58 am
Bring Back The Sci-Fi Channel Petition
D’ave over at Jo’blog and his mate Rudolf have started a petition to bring back the Sci-Fi Channel to the DSTV bouquet.
I’m an avid fan of Sci-Fi and being able to view movies and series’ of this genre was one of the biggest reasons why I decided…
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December 5th, 2005 at 3:24 am
Program on the emergence of civilization.
“14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent. ”
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ failed attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it’s applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
AIDS in Africa.
Organizational Heirarchy/Levels of positioning.
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK – perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as “god”
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management
3. Evil/disfavored aliens – runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere
Terrestrial management/positioning:
4. Chinese/egyptians – this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans – The seamless transition between Cleopatra and Julius Ceasar may be a clue alluding to a partnership.
6. Mafia – the real-world 20th century interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician – Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1985 James Bond View to a Kill 1989 San Francisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Our society gives clues to the system in place. We all have heard the saying “He has more money than god.” There is also an episode of the Simpsons where god meets Homer and says “I’m too old and rich for this.”
This is the system on earth because this is the system everywhere.
20 cent/hour Chinese labor, 50 cents for material.
An $80 sweater costs less than a dollar; homage, tribute kicked upstairs vindicates the creative accounting.
I don’t want to suggest the upper eschelons are evil and good is the fringe. But these individuals become wealthy exploiting those they hurt.
They have made it abundantly clear that doing business with evil (disfavored) won’t help people. They say only good would have the ear, since evil is struggling for survival, and therefore only the favored could help.
The clues are there which companies are favored and which are disfavored, but they conceal it very hard because it is so crucial.
I offer an example of historical proportions:::
People point to Walmart and cry “anti-union”.
Unions enable disfavored people to live satisfactorly without addressing their disfavor. This way their family’s problems are never resolved. Without the union they would have to accept the heirarchy, their own inferiority.
Unions serve to empower.
Walmart is anti-union because they are good. They try to help people address and resolve their problems by creating an enviornment where there are fewer hurdles.
Media ridicule and lawsuits are creations to reinforce people’s belief that Walmart is evil in a subsegment of the indistry dominated by the middle and lower classes.
Low-cost disfavored Chinese labor is utilized by corporate america to maximize margins. They all do it. Only WalMart gets fingered because they are the ones who help, and those who seek to create confusion in the marketplace want to eliminate the vast middle class who have a real chance and instead stick with lower classes who may not work otherwise. So they dirty him up while allowing the others to appear clean.
The middle class is being deceived. They are being misled into the unfavored, and subsequently will have no assistance from their purchases with corporate america.
I believe the coining of the term “Uncle Sam” was a clue alluding to just this::Sam Walton and WalMart is one of few saviors of the peasant class.
Amercia is a country of castoffs, rejects. Italy sent its criminals, malcontents.
Between the thrones, the klans and kindred, they “decided” who they didn’t want and acted, creating discontent and/or starvation.
The u.s. is full of disfavored rejects. It is the reason for the myriad of problems not found in European countries. As far as the Rockafellers and other industrialists of the 19th century go, I suspect these aren’t their real names. I suspect they were chosen to go and head this new empire.
Royalty is the right way to organize a society. Dictatorships and monarchies are a reflection of the antient’s hierarchical organization.
Positions go to those who have favor with the rulers, as opposed to being elected.
Elections bring a false sense of how the world is. Democracy misleads people.
Which is why the disfavored rejects were sent to the shores of America::To keep them on the wrong path.
Jews maim the body formed in the image of “god”, and inflicted circumsision upon all other white people, as well as the evil that is Jesus Christ.
I think about how Jews (were used to) created homosexuality among Slavics, retribution for the Holocaust.
Then I think of the Catholic Church and its troubles.
What connection is here between Jews and the Catholic church???
If it is their sinister motives that’s behind the evil that is Jesus Christ are they being used at all?
Perhaps it is them who are pulling strings.
Their centuries of slavery in Egypt proves their disfavor.
The Jew leaders decided to prey on the up-and-coming Europeans to try to fix their problems with the ruling elite, a recurring aspect of the elite’s methodology.
Jews were ostracised for a reason.
Jesus Christ is a religious figure of evil. The seperatist churches formed so they could still capture the rest of the white people, keeping them worshipping the wrong god.
And now they do it to people of color, Latinos and Asians, after centuries of preying upon them.
Since Buddism doesn’t recongnize a god, the calls are never heard, and Chinese representation is instead selected by the thrones.
Budda was the Asian’s Jesus Christ::: bad for the people. “They came up at the same time for a reason.”
Simpson’s foreshadowing::Helloween IV special, Flanders is Satan. “Last one you ever suspect.”
“You’ll see lots of nuns where you’re going:::hell!!!” St. Wigham, Helloween VI, missionary work, destroying cultures.
Over and over, the Simpsons was a source of education and enlightenment, a target of ridicule by the system which wishes to conceal its secrets.
The advent of the modern Christmas was a brilliant move. It creates a vested interest among those who would prefer the Church of Evil be destroyed::::
As goes the Catholic Church so goes the majority of annual retail sales.
The similarities between the names “Santa” and Satan” are no coincidence.
I believe Islam is the one true religion, and those misled christians who attack “god”‘s most favored people will pay dearly one day.
December 18th, 2005 at 1:01 am
Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.
April 14th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Yeah dstv suck i too was disopinted when they cancelled it i had just discoverd it and seen late night anime, but know i can never do the same.I hate there stuiped ads that sometimes cut your programe and remember they wanted us to pay for a new card and they coulnd even post it we had to go and fetch it.The movies and programing are getting old.If SKY came out here they would die die.I will shed no tears.
October 15th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
Dstv Suck. More time waisted and spent on trash adds involving cells and Sms for downloads costing money.
Bring back Sci-fi and scrap some of the other channels that no one watches.