View Full Version : bikes on men and motors??????????
kwak zzr
07-05-05, 09:30 PM
has anyone noticed m+m are not showing many bike prog's now?
ive just e mailed granada sky broardcasting and asked them if what i'm seeing is true!
i only have sky for m+m and eurosport!
what the frigg are the proffesionals and the sweeny doing on a motors channel!!!!!!!! :x
if i have a decent responce to this thread i'll e mail the mcn and granada again.
thanks for you time
daz(midlands)
weegaz22
07-05-05, 10:32 PM
american chopper is on discovery, and there are bike shows dotted all around the other channels i believe
Men & Motors announced a few months ago they were dropping bike shows on their forum, they then dropped the forum as well.
Bloody shame.
I work for Manchester United TV as a cameraman and our camera room is next door to the ex-M&M camera room down here at Granada. They have stopped producing programmes and laid all the staff off. They hung up there camera's and headed for the door on 29th April this year. At the minute there are no plans to start producing shows again, they are keeping the channel on but showing 'bought in' shows, repeats and anything else that fills the viewing slots.. shame....
Wiltshire7
08-05-05, 01:24 PM
they have also just been put on free view. i was very happy when i heard that, but not if there arnt going to be any bikes shows on it. whats the point?
boohoo sucks to u M&M.
jakeblues68
08-05-05, 03:16 PM
shame...was one of the better channels too.
Cloggsy
08-05-05, 05:17 PM
Awwww, that's pants :!: Bang goes my Tuesdays in front of the tele :roll: :evil:
kwak zzr
08-05-05, 07:47 PM
glad ive got some support guys
daz
Captain Nemo
09-05-05, 09:37 AM
men and motors annouced a while ago that they wouldnt be producing any more bike progarammes, now i understand they arent making programmes of any genre, i understand that they were intending to show more cars progs and mens lifestyle to try and become the max power of tv, they had good bike shows too, surely there must have been a market for them.
Wiltshire7
09-05-05, 09:47 AM
well there sure as hell isnt a market for the sweeny!
greeno76
09-05-05, 11:35 AM
You can expect a lot more bike-related programming on Discovery over the summer plus the possibility of getting the Teutals' bikes bought over for some roadshows around the UK.
J
u can get men and motors on free view? what number? i cant
Carsick
09-05-05, 11:55 AM
u can get men and motors on free view? what number? i cant
me either.
they have also just been put on free view. i was very happy when i heard that, but not if there arnt going to be any bikes shows on it. whats the point?
boohoo sucks to u M&M.
go on tell us whiltsire, what no.?
Robbo44
09-05-05, 12:47 PM
On the plus side, they do occasionly show Carmen Electra's Naked Women Wrestling League (NWWL), so can't be too harsh on them! Genius :D
kwak zzr
09-05-05, 06:34 PM
m+m is on freeview ch 38,well thats what the website says.
you might have to re scan for your channels.
i'm glad to hear there are lots of you ****ed off about this topic, i shall
now e mail granrda sky broardcasting again!!!
keep on moaning guys we might just get a bit more biking on tv!
daz(midlands)
kwak zzr
09-05-05, 06:41 PM
GO TO M+M WEB SITE,CLICK FEEDBACK AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!!
jakeblues68
09-05-05, 06:49 PM
Done :!:
kwak zzr
09-05-05, 07:03 PM
ive just had an e mail off marc potter (mcn)
he said they will see if they can help, look out for the
letter in mcn!
cheers jakeblues!
daz(midlands)
TrojanHorse11
09-05-05, 08:52 PM
Just to add my support and comments as well:
Yes I started to notice the lack of biking shows as well several weeks back. All they show now are the same old car-crash programs over and over and over an over.........
EVERY time I put M+M on to see if there's any good biking programs on, guess what's on.... car-crash!
YAWN :(
Wiltshire7
10-05-05, 01:22 AM
its number..... erm, lemme go check:)
38.
creamerybutter
10-05-05, 11:30 AM
I'm sure MCN already covered this :? . I defiantly read somewhere that M&M was becoming ITV4 and was dropping it's bike programs as they draw a tenth of the viewers of a repeat of Last of the Summer Wine or something like that.
Yes - we covered it on 2onT a few months ago too.
The thing is - they get about 50,000 viwers for Top Ten bikes, or DR Rods surgery, or Pit Stop babes, ( or whatever other lame ideas they had), or they get 350,000 viewers for the Sweeney - so its obvious what s gonna happen. They arent dropping bikes, they are just not commissioning any new stuff...
They have had some good progs - born to ride and scratchin' were both exceelent at times, but it is v patchy ...but i remember when i first got Sky, i was well impressed to see a channel showing and reveiwing bikes... :wink:
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