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NTV good/bad
Good things: 2. When Larry Jay co-hosts the news. I know not everyone agrees but he brings a sense of humour to the news crew which normally suffers from stick-up-the-bum syndrome. 3. "A little good news". While a lot of people may not be a fan of Jim Furlong, it's good to see this old archival footage of Newfoundland from years gone by. 4. Shows in our time zone. We can see some shows in primetime that are supposed to be show in primetime unlike the on the American networks. 5. NTV entertainment news. It's nice to see some local entertainers to get showcased. 6. NTV Sky Cam. Good job NTV. Bad things: 1. an hour of local news. Sometimes they tend to be a little spend too long reporting on unimportant stories from, for example, Clarenville about traffic lights when if it was in St. John's they wouldn't even think of reporting on it. It's great to report from parts of the province other than the St. John's, but if it's not newsworthy, then leave it out. 2. Too many throws to the weather person during the NTV news. How many times during an hour do we need to see where Sharon Snow/ or Toni Marie are doing the news from? If they cut this to a minimum it would leave more room for national and international news, which is desparatly lacking on NTV. 3. The cheesy 1980's graphics. From what i've read NTV has the equipment to be able to do modern looking graphics. The logos and graphics look much the same as they did in the 80's, it's time to update them. If this station is representing Newfoundland on satellite services around the world then they should update the look and stop embarrasing Newfoundland. I've seen cable access stations that look more professional than NTV. 4. Not watching the clock. NTV often lets the news run a few minutes past 7:00 so if you're watching the news and not the clock you miss the begining of any show that starts at 7:00. 5. One word: SIMULCASTING. We don't need NTV simulcasting their inferior quality signal over other stations showing the same show. The picture quality of NTV's signal during simulcasting is horrible, not to mention the fact that they're even doing it. 6. The NTV website. Ever hear of design continuity? It looks like each section of the site was designed in a different year by a different person. 7. Putting NTV logos over mostly american music videos and calling it Canadian Content to fill their CRTC quotas. Not only are we bombarded with bad music and bad videos, but they all have ugly logos - see number 3. 8. NTV calling themselves Canada's Superstation. What makes NTV any more "Super" than any Global or CTV station? 9. NTV sticking their logo in the corner of all shows. Sure other networks do the same thing but NTV seems to have an extra big, extra ugly logo in the corner. 10. The late night computer animation "festivals". Who actually made these damn things? Why would anyone want to watch this wacked out crap? 11. The NTV (c)raps? Does anyone actually want to hear this horrible attempt at a rap song about NTV? How much you want to bet this is actually Jessie Stirling (Geoff Stirling's nephew?). "Uncle Geoff, can I bust some fresh rhymes on your tv station?"
12. The NTV website 'guestbook'. The fact that their guest book isn't an actual guest book, instead just hand picked positive comments from people is pretty sad.
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