Rage - Playlist

hey, what is this thing? digital tv channel pumpin out music videos all day? i LOVE that they tell you what they are going to play well in advance...this is brilliant - i wish every music channel did that so you dont have to sit thru shite for ages in the hope of catchin a cool video

In Australia the ABC, one of our two government-funded TV stations, plays a programme called Rage every Saturday night/morning. It's been going on for years.

Needless to say, we all love the ABC. (although aparrently it's "becoming increasingly irrelevant to mainstream Australia" (according to Victoria's former premier))

(it's also on Friday night/morning)

"becoming increasingly irrelevant" in what sense, Andrew? is Rage an anomaly, or is a lot of the programming aimed at younger "edgy" viewers? i ask because over here the CBC (currently celebrating its 50 yr run with all sorts of odd retrospectives) gets accused of this all the time, but here it means "irrelevant to ppl under 65".

(sorry toraneko maybe this is a seperate thread: ABC vs. CBC vs. BBC irrelevance FITE!!)

god i miss rage :-(

Nah the ABC is "irrelevant" because its numerable news and current affairs shows are supposedly aimed at lefty intellectual elites and don't concentrate on new diets and shady car dealers. Neither the Federal nor the State Governments appreciate having a news channel that actually questions what they're doing. The Right Establishment are hankering for the chance to do a subverted-Gramsci and fill Australia's one good channel for news (though the news shows on the multicultural channel SBS are v. good too) with their own organic intellectuals, but the journalists at the ABC are largely too good to be gotten rid of that easily.

'Rage' in that sense is an anomaly compared to the "concept" of the ABC, though there is a reasonable smattering of shows aimed at adolescents and young adults.