Rapture TV complain to Ofcom about Sky

Paul

Those following the progress of Rapture TV (which has promised to bring anime to UK TV) will be interested to read of their recent publicised concerns about Sky TV delaying their return to the UK air-waves. Originally they had planned to relauch Rapture in June but it's now looking more like a January '06 return. These worries have led them into lodging a complaint with TV regulator Ofcom, claiming the "unreasonable" delay is costing them up to £1,000 a day.

David Henry, Managing Director of Rapture TV, is quoted as saying "To leave one broadcaster in charge of an EPG is asking for trouble. It's not an open platform. Sky controls who gets on it, where and how - that's not an open platform. It's glaringly obvious to me that not everybody is being treated the same."

Read the full story at Digital Spy.

Ramen89 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject:

Strange, yesterday on the Rapture TV boards one of thier employees said the channel would be coming back before Xmas this year but the date was still under wraps.

Red XIII · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject:

Ramen89 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject:

Paul · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject:

If anything, this at least shows us that Rapture TV are serious about trying to succeed. It's slightly worring that SKY already seem to have a "grudge" against them but then I'm sure this will all (read: I really hope!) eventually turn out for the good.

Ramen89 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject:

Yeah I hope they do, but It will be a bit of a let down if it does'nt turn up until January, but oh well I guess the main thing is that at least its coming at all.

Martin · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject:

definitely. i'd rather they spent time over getting things ready, rather than rushing it and suffering teething problems. here's hoping sky give them a fighting chance to get anime on UK TV at last.

Ramen89 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

The thing Im worried about is if they'll get enough exposure, I mean if anime was coming on to a relatively big channel then it wouldnt matter, but this is a free to air channel that probably only just has the right amount of money to show these anime programs, let alone advertise about them!

Charter_Mage · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

I can imagine their annoyance, i mean concidering the countless utterly rubbish channels Sky air, i mean how many people actually watch half of them, i'm often surprised at the randomness of some of them when i have a good flick through.
Lets just hope we don't have to wait to long and it works out for them in the end

Ramen89 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

Yeah but anime is going to be the only decent thing on Rapture, Its one of those Overload style channels I think, just pointless program after pointless program.

Charter_Mage · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

Yeah true, i agree with you there, i can't imagine that i will be watching anything else they will be showing apart from the anime, i can say for certain that i'm not into dance music

Paul · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

Mangaminx · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:

Ramen89 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:59 pm Post subject:

Lol, I watch Bravo from time to time, only for the video games programs which are usually repeats (I really dont geth Bravo's scheduling).

And I agree with Character Mage, I am definetly not into dance music, I have no idea why some people are Laughing

neptune2venus · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: