bubble hits gone?

golfguy

bubble hits gone it was on sky 379

copacetic

went off the air today, off all epgs and websites all went down also.

lostexpectation

did its name foretell its demise?

Motley Crue

lostexpectation wrote: »

did its name foretell its demise?

no but considering the competition it wasnt exactly well watched

Aidric

Bland, generic station playing bland generic pop music goes off air, who cares? Plenty others performing the same function.

JPA

It's Irish owned is all.

Elmo

JPA wrote: »

It's Irish owned is all.

And what you mean by this statement!

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0214/1233867936936.html

JonathanAnon

Wasnt that the two smug gits that were on one of those programs with Craig Doyle saying what a success story Bubble Hits was. It started out with having no advertisements, and then introduced them ... that's the one isnt it?

Davy

It had 1.5 million viewers a week

Elmo

davton wrote: »

It had 1.5 million viewers a week

I had 1.5million viewers flicking in and out of the channel, this is just a PR figure to make the station look good not worth the paper it is written on.

Their top ten for the UK below

1 HIT MUSIC NOW (Sat 17:00) 13,000
2 LOUIS' BIG ONES (Sun 15:00) 12,000
3 JUST GREAT MUSIC (Mon 14:00) 8,000
4 THE MOST WANTED HITS (Thu 18:00) 8,000
5 NOTHING BUT HITS (Sat 19:00) 8,000
6 EURO TOP 30 (Sun 17:00) 7,000
7 NOTHING BUT HITS (Wed 21:00) 6,000
8 NOTHING BUT HITS (Fri 21:00) 6,000
9 THE MOST WANTED HITS (Mon 18:00) 5,000
10 JUST GREAT MUSIC (Thu 14:00) 5,000

Plastic Bari

Its very annoying only good musci channel!!!!:eek:

Zonda999

And for those of us who dont have sky, it was THE best FTA music channel. Sad to see it go.

Elmo

Zonda999 wrote: »

And for those of us who dont have sky, it was THE best FTA music channel. Sad to see it go.

Then Bubble Hits should have invest money into finding out how many Irish viewers they had. They weren't part of the Audience Research. They didn't try to be more accessible to their "Irish" audience.

Anyway try www.mitv.ie. They will need to get the 711 if they have any chance of survival.

K4t

My life is officially over.

flag123

Plastic Bari wrote: »

Its very annoying only good musci channel!!!!:eek:

By any chance are you one of these people that have the sky box but does not have a sky viewing card, who therefore flicks endlessly between channels 365 through 383 hoping to sample the latest proleterian songs, while maintaining contact with your other friends via bebo mobile.

Basically Bubble hits is not a good music channel.

Mossy Monk

Seems to be a lot of people to disagree with you.

mukki

i have a HTPC FTA+ setup

liked bubble hits, but glad i still have bliss and scuzz

dlambirl

For anyone with FTA Bubble Hits was a good enough music channel for youngsters. Better than Fizz on Sky (i think it might be FTA as well) with all the txt and photos from people......

unreggd

This is bullseisse! :mad:

Twas the only good music channel on NTL!

JP Liz

IRISH MUSIC TV station Bubble Hits, which is half-owned by successful concert promoter Denis Desmond, was taken off air yesterday due to heavy losses.
The station, which was originally created by young Irish businessmen James Hyland and Lee Walsh, debuted in August 2006. The channel and its associated website both closed without notice yesterday.
Mr Hyland told The Irish Times that Bubble Hits had failed to attract sufficient advertising revenues and it had been decided to cut their losses.
“It was costing us money to run,” Mr Hyland said. “There was no point throwing dead money after dead money.
“We didn’t get any support from the advertising agencies. They simply weren’t spending their clients’ money.”
Mr Hyland said there would be no job losses.
The six staff will switch to Creative Sounds, a Meath-based production company that he co-owns with Mr Walsh.
Bubble Hits debuted with no advertising, deciding, instead, to seek sponsorship to fund its activities.
This model failed to generate sufficient revenues and it began seeking advertising some time ago.
It was carried in Ireland and Britain by satellite operator Sky and also featured on the NTL/ Chorus cable platform here.
Mr Hyland said the station was watched by 1.5 million viewers each week.
No details for Ireland are available as it was not part of the Nielsen ratings.
Bubble Hits was owned by Creative Sounds UK Ltd. Mr Desmond’s Gaiety Investments owned 50 per cent of the business with the other half jointly held by Mr Hyland and Mr Walsh.
Accounts for the year to the end of January 2007 for the UK-registered company show that it had accumulated losses of £586,326. Creditor payments due within one year amounted to £716,692.
Mr Hyland declined to give an update of Bubble Hits’ financial position, nor would he indicate if the company would be liquidated. “We’re working through the final figures at the moment,” he said.
Mr Hyland said he and Mr Walsh plan to concentrate on their production company, which makes about 1,200 TV and radio advertisements a week.
The pair were behind the successful Crazy Frog mobile phone ringtone some years ago.

_Kaiser_

The pair were behind the successful Crazy Frog mobile phone ringtone some years ago.

I was sympathetic till I read this!! :P

Seriously though, at least noone has lost their job over it, and unfortunately they were playing in an already overcrowded marketplace so were always likely to be up against it - especially as they decided to start without advertising which, while nice for the viewer, just means that the bills have to be paid some other way and if that doesn't work, well.......

Elmo

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

I was sympathetic till I read this!! :P

Seriously though, at least noone has lost their job over it, and unfortunately they were playing in an already overcrowded marketplace so were always likely to be up against it - especially as they decided to start without advertising which, while nice for the viewer, just means that the bills have to be paid some other way and if that doesn't work, well.......

I may have said it here I know I said it in the other Broadcasting forum.

They made a few mistakes

1. Thinking that they shouldn't have ads just because they plan to earn money via text messages and phone in (your not the BBC).
2. When introducing advertising they stated that they would not take revenue from brands for washing powered, they must not have known that one of the biggest advertiser in Ireland and the UK and possibly the world is Leaver Brothers who own other brands such as LYNKS.
3. Not invest time to appear on Irish EPGs or even go for a BCI license. They should have known how many Irish viewers they had, they could have out numbered their British ones.

Kat Slater

It started out promisingly but anytime I flicked it on recently it was the same few songs over and over, definitely a lack of variety on there even compared to other music channels.

NUTZZ

I can't believe it's gone, I thought maybe it was just down for a while! I thought it was nice to have an Irish music channel for a change.