Seven West Media / Channel 7
Reviews and Complaints

I would like to object strongly to brian taylor's observation on last night's (Thursday 29th may) football broadcast that 53, 000 people at the scg was an endorsement for thursday night football. It is ok for brian, and all the other commentators (I have heard eddie maguire make the same ludicrous statement in the past). They do not have to get up and go to work at 5am the next day. Also, have they considered the impact this stupid scheduling has on families with school aged children? I have an 8 and 5 year old that I would love to take to the football. I support carlton, and we have three games out of 22 this year which are played at a time that I can conveniently take them. I cannot take them on a thursday or sunday night, get home at 10.30pm, and expect them to go to school the next day ready to learn. And I would also dispute this observation that a good crowd on a thursday night is a "tick" for the time slot. If the game was played on a sunday afternoon it would have drawn the same crowd. If people want to see games they have no choice but to go at the crazy times they are scheduled.

I am disgusted after entering channel' sevens TV show HouseRules Win $250k once on Monday night I then began receiving txt msg from the company thanking me for my entry and that I was in the draw. This went on all night and I decided at 12:40am to turn my phone off. In the morning when I turned my phone back on I was then alerted to another message that said I had spent $60 on the same promotion. How can this be when I only entered once. Not happy at all.

Channel 7 has some great series/shows but it is horrible at being punctual! Someone really need to change the clocks at channel 7 or have less commercials or do something about it as movies are often shown 5-15 mintues late! This is so annoying.

Other channels seem to be doing a great job trying to keep to the allocated time slot.. So why can't channel 7?

Come on channel 7...out of all the movies ever made you have to keep repeating the midday movies? I work nightshift so the midday movie is something I look forward to..yet, like today, it's a repeat x2! NOT IMPRESSED

My email address is [protected]@bossqs.com.au
I am one of many people suffering from interference of Channel 7 reception. I rarely put up with even looking at the channel because of this. There are many good programs that I am missing because of this, especially some sports programs like car racing for instance. I keep giving it a go but end up moving to another channel or turning off the TV.
I saw another comment on the computer that said that someone in the Melbourne area had the same problem. Is it the band that you have been lumbered with causing this problem and if so what can I do to overcome this problem.
It is quite noticeable that not many suppliers or any type have an easy method of direct complaints communication, it appears that consumer problems are avoided as much as possible by most suppliers.
I look forward to some response to this matter. Keith Cashman

I understand that channel seven are loving the controversy hanging over the spice girls on mkr but honestly, they have openly admitted cheating and in my opinion it destroys the integrity of the show. The definition of cheating is" to do something knowingly immoral to gain an unfair advantage" and that's exactly what these girls have done. To uphold the shows reputation and prove to everyone that the show is about brilliant cooking more then cheap controversy, channel seven should disqualify the spice girls even though they no doubt will get evicted later this week. Infanct if you really love the controversy and we know you do, i'm sure disqualifying the spice girls will give you even more exposure, make the public happy and allow the show to keep the integrity it deserves. There are indian and bangladeshi citizen voicing there disgust all over facebook which shows these girls have no support and I can only hope that channel seven act appropriately.

Yours sincerely,
Tom jennings.

I am appalled at the comments made by the commentators (particularly the male commentators) in referencing players' relationships, generally female players.
It seems that is the most important or only thing that they can think of to talk about before, during and after matches. With the male players they are more focused on techniques, training, statistics and injuries while these get only brief mention when the commentators are discussing a female athlete. In this situation the commentators seem to prefer discussing the athlete's relationship status, especially those players who are currently in relationships with other high profile athletes or celebrities.
While I don't mind this being brought up on occasion, it has been repeatedly mentioned for several female athletes, throughout the Brisbane International, Sydney APIA International and now the Australian Open as well, often several times during a single match.

Why is it that the only TV channel that breaks up is Channel 7 it is pathetic
Everyone else can get ot right why not them. It is fast becoming the channel not to watch.
Maybe fixing the problem will cut into some ones pocket money.

Further disgraceful commentary on Channel 7's AFL coverage of the Hawthorn vs. Western Bulldogs game.

Tim Watson seems to be able to comment on nothing but Hawthorn and how wonderful they are, without making a single comment about the Western Bulldogs. While it was obvious Hawthorn were the better team, Tim was utterly incapable of making a single positive contribution to a team that has improved enormously since the past few weeks. Also unable to make a negative comment about the precious Hawks when they made mistakes! Completely and utterly bored of listening to Tim's voice.

Channel 7 should simply not be allowed to commentate on football games if they are unable to be unbiased. Uttertly disgraceful.

I have just been watching channel 7 - 10 am 15/6/2001 - when 'swearing' was discussed. The presenters concluded that this unpleasant increasing habit was OK . It is never OK. It is a reflection of the person speaking inappropriately and shows them to be in need of manners and respect for those around them. How they feel is the business of no one else and no one should not have to put up with offensive emotional outbursts or as it is now used in common speech.

Susan Wood

the commentary team @ Etihad stadium for the Richmond v WCE today were a disgrace, how dare they barrack & push WCE game ahead of the opposition there were 2 teams out there today, Dennis Cometti was so pro WCE the only thing he missed was his Eagle scarf & his weak little followers Bruce McAvaney & Tim Watson cannot even make independent assessments it was pathetic, I was so angry by the end of the game, & don't know if they realised there were more players on the ground than Daniel Kerr. Eagles were bigger stronger than the Tigers which in the end was probably why they won, we can accept losing but you go back & listen to these ###s & see how one sided they were, IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE.
They don't deserve to be broadcasting if they cannot do it without bias

After watching the Move " The greatest story ever told " on 7 two for 4 hrs, it would have been nice to watch the credits go on to see who was playing the parts, we had to sit through all the repartition adverts, then why not let us see who the great actors were, you thoughtless wonders, instead of going in to some American rubbish sit com ... er HELLO !
It really get up my nose, think about how you show such a great movie and then dont bother to let us see who it was .
Bit like introducing some one and not saying there name . Rude, but then its all Money driven isn't it with you lot .

Channel 7... You are a joke. You stated that when you took the rights from channel 10 for the V8 Supercars that you would show every race live. That lasted for 4 races.. The football is more important to you. What about the people who want to watch car racing and not bloody football. V8 are on once a fortnight and football on 6-7 times a week. Sometimes you show 1 hour of racing then go to the football for 3-4 hrs then back to the racing after that once the results have been posted by everyone. But in that 2nd telecast of racing there is more commercials showing than racing as you have to make up for the LACK of them during the football. All you think about is money and not customer satisfaction. You have ruined every sporting telecast you have ever shown or taken from another station just to gain more MONEY.
I will be pursuing this matter further if i don't receive a response back as i have the rights to receive one. I don't know what happened to Channel 7 but your customer service has fallen of the edge of the cliff you just don't care anymore.
VERY DISSAPOINTING.
Regards Ben

Today Tonight promoted itself with a shock report on Romanians preying on "us" for our mobile phones, assaulting people in the streets and stealing identities. This is the most overt and mindless vilification of an ethnic group that I've seen and I call into question the legality of such baseless, inflammatory claims.

Is there nothing left of the ongoing refugee "crisis" for TT to rehash, reheat and try to make a story with?

Channel 7 need to get rid of Bruce mcavaney, I cannot stand his afl calls.
His voice grates on me, and he ruins any games I watch on channel 7.
Please get rid of him.

I am outraged!

This evening between the times of 7-7.30pm there were several viewings of the upcoming program Teen Wolf.
Anybody with children know that most young children go to bed between 7-7.30pm and that sitting down as a family in front of the TV is a common practice before bed.

The commercial shows flashes of a young boy looking in the direction of a rustling noise in the woods which turns out to be this vicious creature - wolf with evil eyes and teeth that leaps out and attacks him.
He is then terrified as he grows these disgusting claws whilst taking a shower, and from there throughout there are dark hunting scenes in the woods, and other scenes that follow this with less magnitude.
Overall it has a sense of horror and scare.
Appropriate for the series I'm sure -
NOT appropriate for a 4yr old or 1 yr olds viewing before bedtime.

For the 1st time tonight my 4yr old daughter was frightened in bed.

GOOD ONE 7 mate! You must have some highly uneducated people working there!

The tennis on Channel 7 has no subtitles / captioning which is unfair for all Deaf people in Australia and those who are hearing impaired and rely on captioning. As the tennis is watched by hundreds and thousands of people in Australia it can be said that many Deaf people have a right to also have captioning even if just for the Australian players matches.

Or maybe we should make it fair for all Australians - have no audio at all!

why can channel 7 keep the rights to the V8 supercars when the station is unreliable. first alot of the races get split in half by an afl game because they conflict and afl always come first which is a joke considering they took the afl rights from channel 10 and then done the same with the supercars only to then stuff the viewers around! The reception in my area is bad enough when trying to watch the races on 7 and then to find todays races are on 7mate of which we cant even get reception here! If they cant keep the v8s on one channel at the time of the race then give them back to channel 10. Its getting beyond a joke!

We are supposed to be going to digital tv however you cannot get through one complete show on channel 7 without it having a bad signal. We have a new tv and therefore no need for a top box but find ourselves putting it back to analogue to watch a show. Unfortunately that means we don't get 7 mate which has some great shows. I love watching Australias Got talent and find it very frustrating to be having this problem every week.