ASTRO - ADVERTISING SLOTS TOTALLY RUNNING OVERTIME

LA PRIMADONA SAYS:

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IT’S SO ANNOYING !

I don’t know what I am paying for, to watch the programmes or to watch advertisements more?

Yeah, it was as looking at a picture like the above watching "live" telecast on Astro

This was most obvious during the Olympics Closing ceremony, most of the live telecast was rudely chopped off, forcing us to watch those ghastly commercials. There was little continuity to watching a “live” telecast!

TWO EGGS & MADE TUNA SANDWICHES DURING COMMERCIAL BREAK!

Thereon, I noticed that on some channels, especially for the entertainment and metro packages, I watched longer commercials than the programme itself. Commercials were running 4-5 minutes per slot for 5-6 slots per hour. That’s a total of 24 minutes for an hour show! I could fry 2 eggs and make tuna sandwiches and the commercials were still running after my 2nd bite! Simply RIDICULOUS, IRRITATING AND ANNOYING!

Astro commercials annoy everyone

TRAILERS, TRAILERS, TRAILERS TO DEATH.....

Charlie's Angels La!

There are too many trailers too. Do you really need to advertise so heavily for your own programmes? I saw so many She Spies trailers, I don’t need to see the girls anymore. I have seen it so many times and I can’t even tell you which channel it’s on or when. This is the result of a total OVERKILL, do your people know what that means?

ASTROMAX TO THE RESCUE, BUT THEN AGAIN......

Now I record all such programmes and watch them so that I can fast forward the commercials, so your advertisers are missing at the least one target. This might increase your Astromax sales but you can’t because YOU ARE OUT OF STOCK! (Psst, I will cover another blog on Astromax on another day! Another scary experience.)

OVER REPEATED ADS DEFINITELY KILLS ADVERTISING POTENTIAL BUY INs.

(Yeah, you must be thinking, obviously this one doesn’t know about subliminally getting the message through! Yeah, subliminal assurance to dislike it so much that one would subconsciously develop the need to forget it!)

No more, no more, no moooooore....

Please don't play more commercials

(2 line parody to Alice Keye's "No More" song).....
Is this action subliminal enough for anyone who isn't blind?

The ads and trailers are all repeated versions during every slot and it is so annoying that it angers me against the brand, product and especially ASTRO. I will not buy into it because it has caused daily annoyance to irritate the hell out of my watching my favourite programmes. If you run them long, viewers will just walk away to cook a whole meal, poop or smoke away the minutes, so whose looking at your advertisers’ commercials – NO ONE!

Subscribers are already paying to get good programmes but not the ones that are swarmed by commercial breaks! If I want to put up with that, I will watch the free airtime national channels!


EVER HEARD OF THE SAYING “LESS IS BEST”?

So is

More

or

Less

Better

?

Stop penalizing your subscribers and stop making money out of the advertisers unscrupulously. Why can’t you be off better standard than the norm? Why not consider exclusive programme sponsorships, charge what you want and have each program sponsored by a brand and its product, run it in the beginning and at the end. Have you not heard that LESS IS BEST? I have seen so many ads that I can’t make which brand sells what!

These are the faces we see, view from inside our TV screens when Astro's commercials are on air

10 OUT OF 10 ALREADY HATE YOUR AD SLOTS

Here are the 10, and fan no. 11 especially posed to make his point stronger

I have spoken to no less than 10 people this past hour and all felt the same. Imagine 10 in just an hour, if I keep going, just imagine how hated your ad slots are.

Anyone out there agree with me? Please shout out too! We assure you there will be no commercial breaks to this!

SO CUT OUT THE ADS NOW OR ELSE WE BRAND ASTRO AS

The "Ad Slot Totally Running Overtime" Broadcast Provider and stop our subscription soon.

I am sorry to say it but

MAXIS - MOST ANNOYING XTRA IRRITATING SERVICE!

IT'S BEEN 5 HOURS AND STILL NOTHING FROM MOST ANNOYING XTRA IRRITATING SERVICE MOBILE SERVICES PROVIDER!

(From Google images)

LA PRIMADONA SAYS:

MAXIS – GREAT CUSTOMER CHAFFERS NOT SERVICE!!!!
I rate them (-5) out of their 0-5 score

I COULD JUST FUMIGATE ALL UNWANTED BUGS WITH MY ANGER AT MAXIS’S CUSTOMER SERVICE!

Bad service, lack of response, no solution and I had to wait for 9+ minutes waiting for a reply!

Then a lady came on to ask if she could help me! Goodness, do I have to repeat my complicate story again??? No way Hose, what on blinking earth are the recordings for? Can they not use the system that they have paid with the monies made from us and put it to good use or are they just having it on just to pretend that they are getting efficient to get more monies from us? Poopbug!

This lady didn’t even identify herself that she was the one that was handling my case so I rejected her asking for the previous lady who has heard my problem and then I wait again! Maxis provides communication service and their staff can’t communicate amongst themselves.

Wake up bosses!! Enough burn bread (roti bakar) and stretch tea (teh tarik) break times!

ABSOLUTELY SPOONKING ME TO DEATH, WERE THESE CUSTOMER CHAFFERS!

I told them to put the recording of my complains to good use instead of into archives and get back to me, simple enough?



JUST DON’T MAKE ME TELL MY STORY A MILLION TIMES, COZ THIS ONE DOESN’T SELL, IT’S A HANGING HEMORRHOID!!!

A very La Prima“Pissified”dona

HEY! JJ & RUDY, HITZ.FM MORNING CREW - WHAT'S HAPPENED TO YOUR ONCE UPON A TIME GOOD SHOW?

(Thanx Google!)

COME ON GUYS, GET SOME BETTER NEW GOTCHA'S OR JUST HANG 'EM OUT TO DRY!!!! YOU ARE INTRODUCING ME TO OTHER STATIONS, DON'T MAKE ME TURN DISLOYAL TO YOUR STATION!!

Thanks for the picture Google

LA PRIMADONA SAYS:

I have been an avid listener to this station for over 3 years. Lately I have gotten myself tired of all the repetitive Gotcha’s being aired! What’s happened?

A couple of years back, I used to listen in from 7am to 8.30am and never had to complain about a thing. Now I tune in at 9am till 9.30am and I get so fed up with the repeats that I have to switch over to 94.5

Are there no better Gotcha’s being sent in?
No one sending in new ones? – Create some then.
Repeated ones are super good if I suffer from Alzheimers.

THOSE THAT MADE ME SUFFER
Here are the ones you should consider not airing anymore:

(Thanx again Google!)

Boy from JB doing push ups over the phone. (Thanks for highlighting that army recruits are dumb)

Girl getting award and not remembering the date. (Irritatingly stupid)

Chandran and the leaflets. (Only good part was Chandran’s non stop laughing)

Speaking to a little Indian boy over the phone. (Simply annoying)

Checking up on a foreigner’s friend’s package of fake stuff (Not funny at all)

Trying to con a foreigner about his credit expenditure. (He wasn’t really taken)

Getting the guy to pay for 13 pax but giving seatings for only 10 for some party.

And a few more that I cannot remember today! Because of the repeats, the minute I hear a familiar one, I switch the station to avoid it.

THANX FOR HANGING OUT "STREET GOTCHAs" TO DRY

However, I must commend you for cancelling the Street Gotcha, now that was absolutely super annoying. The repeated questions were just too much to bear and for awhile I totally switched stations until coming back to the repeated Gotcha’s!

NEED SOME HELP?

Running out of ideas, come on boys, let’s sit down and work the head a little for fresher fancies eh?

WE LISTENERS WANT A CHANCE TO LAUGH TOO

PS: These days, you guys are laughing at your own jokes more than us out here, anyone agree with me?

LUCIOUS LASHES FOR PRIMADONA

From whom did my PrimaDonarina inherit those long lashes? It still baffles me! Neither father nor mother possess them! As far I remember, I was with only 1 man during that time! Hah!

So I don't have symetrical eyes, big deal, I can still see!

Unfortunately, my long hairs have grown elsewhere unseen and I spend hours removing them weekly!

My friend Hannah, boasted about her long lashes resulting from some super duper mascara which she bought at $250. As she fluttered them at me, I could feel the winds.

I will pay thousands for LV or Valentino but no way would I spend $250 for those few strands of hair to lengthen!

However, all's not lost!

Here's the right eye and the left one

Madame PrimaDona discovered this mascara quaintly name Katy, American named, Japanese made for $50 from SaSa. Great buy, great results.

The Don doesn't think so though. Oh bullocks!, he's not using it, the PrimaDona is!

Not only can my biddy eyes flutter away and cause hurricane winds, better than Hannah’s long lashes, mine have VOLUME!

See for yourself!

(Those square bits are yet an alternative cheapo solution to hold up those 45 year old extra eye flaps vs plastic surgery, works absolutely the same!)

They even make my eyes look good when cockeyed!

I COME BACK, NOW I BREAK-TIME!

T

The workers were supposed to fix a broken wall tile and replace a floor tile!

Work was to start at 10am.

Mr Worker said, “I come back at 11.00am, now I have break-time for rest.”

Back at 11am and chiseled at the wall tile till 12pm.

Mr Worker said, “I come back at 1pm, now I have lunch break-time.”

Back he comes at 2.20pm with cement and patched the wall tile.

At 3pm, Mr Worker said, “I come back at 3pm, now I have tea break-time.”

3 break-times for 2 tile replacements. We are certainly overpaying these fellows. No wonder, everything around here takes 5 times the normal duration to get anything and everything done. Just hope they get done before the 4th break-time!

BREAK-TIME DON!

The Don has learnt this well from our country, he too takes ages to get anything and everything fixed in our house. It’s been 6 months, and I hoping for someone to sit and break the 1 broken dining chair before it’s fixed! It’s definitely time to switch the broken one for the one The Don sits on during dinner. That should do the trick!

The difference is that the Don works like a dog from morning to dusk with no “break-time” so my guess is that he takes all his break-time the minute he arrives the front door.

I NEED A HUGE LONG BREAK-TIME FROM THESE JOKERS!

Thanks to Google for the pictures