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Can GTV work in Naija? The signal strength and quality are just like the one I get while searching HITV only that its scrambled.

They seem to be a long way ahead of hitv in terms of channels .

@urfriend

Can the channels be unscrambled if using GTV smartcards "legally" here? It seems they are getting a better deal than hitv in the "Share a Transponder" arrangement.

Am seeing so many channels and Some french channels as well.

@FBS

Am loving those clips and the arabic . Oko no Ko no Ko ? lol

I suppose thats okonkwo they were trying to pronounce abi?

lol

@urfriend

pls send me whatever it is u sent to ilugunboy let me see too. My email is above your post.

am waiting

@ urfriend

What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

I also want to see those goodies you sent to ilugunboy.

please send it to
Thanks

@Ilugunboy

You can imagine the thousands of people calling those customer care lines so you got to be patient to get through.

My subscription expired day before yesterday and yesterday, I decided to do what urfriend advised us here.

I paid at GTBank bode thomas at about 2:30pm called the customer care (tried a number of times and got through but had to hold for available staff).

The calling and waiting was about 15 mins(About 10mins on trying to get through).

Anyways, on getting through and giving the lady my payment details it took just ten minutes for my account to be activated.

The bottom line is there is need for patience in all things.

@urfriend
They at hitv, do they know the great work you are doing for them here?
Its priceless for them and they ought to appreciate it.



Cheers

tollu:
One major issue I have with GUS 5 is the type of book the lost chronicle finally turned out to be.

One would have thought a book from the year 3005 (abi wetin be the year again sef?) would look much different from the regular books we have now. What with the flying cars they showed in their animated srory, shouldn't books of that time be way different from what we have now?

like electronic chips or something of that nature abi?

Thanks urfriend.

Now this Sony Entertainment Channel will bring a lot of new subscribers to hitv.

I know this for sure cause a couple of close friends who watched it for a while with me, decided they would get hitv.

Not to talk of the ladies who dont want to watch only football, now have a reason to get it.

[quote author=kay_pumpin link=topic=106379.msg2633430#msg2633430 date=1218305130]can someone please help out on this inquiry please, i have seen and heard the advert that hitv is now ten thousand naira,thus i went to purchase one frm one of this dealers on the street.To my utmost shock the guy said hitv is actually 14,000 naira.That the 4,000 is added because of the monthly fee.Can someone please confirm if the 10k is inclsuive of the 1 mth subscription fee or if i have to pay an extra 4k.Please advise ASAP thanks[/quote]Yes, the 4k subscription takes it up to 14k.

@urfriend, Rahym please can you confirm this rumour: Someone said hitv is stopping the promo from next week, is that true? He said the price will go up to 22k.

Also, someone needs to change the terrestrial to the sattelite. Is it still done without hassles and for free?

c33b33:
Na 2day yanch begin dey 4 back?If u were not chosen 4 it,try again!Those who won it,deserves it!if there are goodlooking, go make yourself fine before u contest.

@c33b33
That I posted this doesnt mean I was there or tried to get in there. I am too old and matured to try to make money by risking my life like that.

@Aiyetunji

Its obvious that you actually watched the show. Thanks for seeing what very many other people saw.

@Mustay

Its a trend GUS 2 up untill this one. Its a script that the organizers wrote and are making the contestants act out.

Its not possible that the main contenders in every episode, just get to the last point and become clueless. While the eventual winners just go straight to where the treasure is(without much searching) and shout "have found it".

Take GUS5 for instance. Micheal did not leave the spot he decended at and did no searching at all. Just stood there for a couple of minutes then kicked up the treasure. Whats up with that?

Bros they know what they are doing and and don't be deceived.
Once again, there was absolutely no point of having 4 people left in the search after the shooting task. There was supposed to be an elimination but because micheal missed the target, they devised other stories. You could tell at the talking drum that there wasnt any point of them remaining four at that time.

[quote author=A_K_O link=topic=152531.msg2629901#msg2629901 date=1218228718]So no BBA because Naija no gree. . . . . nawa oh!

But seriously as much as people with strict morals would be in support of a ban or a regulation, it is quite ironic that a country with so much corruption at the same time feels morally justified to make this kind of move. It's much the same way OBJ says he is a christian. I ai'nt judging him though. . . . [/quote]You know you are.

To the topic

Does it mean they cant go on and show it to the rest of Africa?

If its banned here, then they should take it elsewhere and make way for better and more useful shows like the Dragons den and Apprentice Africa/Intern . Its just yet another reality show that needs to find its level.
Africans tend to overdo things. Like someone pointed out, the level of obscenity and lewdness in the BBA does not even happen in the other more advanced countries from where the show originated.
Thats how Gaetano went to the UK and shocked every house member in the House and he was sent back home to BBA before he caused any irreparable havoc.
We are not going to miss it .

Originally: Gulder Ultimate Sham: Its Time People Wisened Up

The only season of this ultimate sham that was ever real was the very first one. After that, the stakes got higher and of course, the "stake holders" became more interested in the final winner.

From Lukam and the way they removed the strongest competition for him( Vaughn), who they knew was not going to play by their "scripts", to Hector and Tope(who was willing to play by the scripts) till date. The Gulder ultimate sham brings together a number of people and make them act out a pre-written script. A script which always had a winner decided before the show began.

When the stakes got higher, after Ezeugo (the only authentic winner), the organizers of the show have always selected the best looking person among the rest to be the representative of the brand.

They should just stop deceiving the thousands of young men and women who register for the sham and risk their health and lives to try and get into the show. Even the last ten are pre-determined.

Please someone should let gulder ultimate sham organizers know that Nigerians are wise to them.

If  Michael had hit the target during the arrow shooting task, the person who did not hit anything would have left that day. This is a total sham.

vowiski:
urfriend
how about terendtv
i went to their website and i was amazed, i couldnt even enter any link, it was crap.
can some one tell me anything about their services.

Exactly.

And they started about 7 years before hitv.

Hannibal:
DaPhoenix n Onyinye. . . . . .Stop this childish kizzacks.

From all I have read, onyinye hasnt done anything wrong.

Dont know why they are getting on her case

Especially Daphoenix.

onyinye actually tried to be friendly about it all but not Daphoenix.

For goodness sake she wouldnt like to go down on anyone. Thats her opinion.

She shouldnt be crucified or called childish for that.

Its even commendable that she isnt trying to please anyone by joining the bandwagon.

Back to the topic:
1)When you look at couples with their babies with a deeper longing and interest.
2)When you start feeling awkward going to buy food outside.(Something u used to do with ease).
(3) When everyone around you starts calling u uncle(even those that shouldnt).
(4) When people greet you with "how is the family?" .
(5) When you attend up to 5 weddings in a row(all your friends). There are others but these pointers will do for now.

@Sfinxzone
I also have reservations on the exclusivity of the various football games they are getting cause i do not want to hear them increasing fees anytime in the near future.

I have no doubt that they will become very good "SOON"(according to urfriend), but in their getting good, I don't want to hear any increase in subscription fees cause that would be catastrophic.

@senga

DaarSat is also beginning to sound like hitv.

I have heard Daarsat will be rolling out within the week, from next week and soon a number of times now.

Also they keep saying how good they are going to be, we are waiting to see just how good.

Someone mentioned that the difference in startup dates between hitv and dstv should not be an excuse.

Well, its as good enough excuse as they can get. There is no gainsaying the roll experience plays in this type of business.

You may think you have covered all the angles but you can never gauge your level of readiness until the actual rollout.

That why am waiting to see Daarsat.

I am not a satisfied customer but I still maintain that the age of the business must be put into consideration. Trend started a long time before Hitv(7yrs) and they are not better than hitv in content.

At the rate its going , in three years, hitv would be the best in Nigeria(you can note this down).

To further explain the roll of age and experience in business, you just need to look at what is happening with Visafone and Starcomms now.

Visafone came in with all the noise about the people bankrolling it, Zenith bank and other banks. Based on this, people felt that it would take a long while before there is any issue with visafone(I am one of the early users of visafone EVDO broadband and phone).
But right now, visafone is a mess. Both the phones and internet connection is wack. Their EVDO is just a glorified dial up service. And this is with all their backers and money.

Starcomms on the other hand, keeps powering on. A friend uses starcomms and each time he comes to my place with his laptop, I feel like crying when i see how his internet works while my visafone(which is supposed to be the same capacity) crawls.

I daresay that the difference in the visafone vs starcomms case is experience in the business.

Starcomms have "been there and done that" while visafone(with all their money and poached staff) is just walking this way for the first time.

The same thing can be applied to DSTV/ Hitv.

But hitv's case is not as bad as visafones's case right now believe me.

Looking good.

Ok, I will go renew my subscription tomorrow.

Really, they ought to pay you well for the job you are doing for them.

@urfriend

when its completed, what should be expected? The remaining channels or ?

I think our nollywood producers, directors and actors should take note and watch all episodes of wetin dey and the Station so they can all learn.

The actors and actresses are not known faces but will put the present popular ones to shame.

@Bluehorizo

Dont blame urfreind.

He was probably posting the info as he got it from the management.

Maybe something made them not to be able to bring the matches(something always does).

There were mid-week matches that were advertised during the premier league that they ended up not showing due to "technical reasons".

I suspect that the next round of matches will be shown.

Its also obvious that they were not sure from the beginning they would get the rights so have not yet tied up everything.

Phew! I find myself defending urfriend more and more though am also a slightly dissatisfied customer.

Maybe its cause I realise that it takes time to get everything right in a new business(Being a business person myself).

My business is four years old now but sometimes it seems am still crawling and not yet learnt to stand(Hitv is 1 year old).

Yes they said 7 new channels will be uploaded but they have uploaded three. Thats 40% and its not as if they have foreclosed uploading any more channels.

Humans, especially naijas are very impatient(I am a classic example).

I look at how impatient I get when people(artisans, telcos and other people) dont deliver on time and I wonder at myself cause am guilty of not delivering services on time as well since we are all subject to the same challenges in Nigeria such as Power problems, Fuel problems, alaye and area boys problems and bad infrastructure problems.

Its the same with hitv, in fact theirs is more challenging due to the huge funds needed to run such a business.

Guys, DSTV is over ten years old and even Trend TV is over 7years old(I know this for sure). Hitv, my guys, is 1 YEAR OLD.

While we demand for quality service that we deserve, I feel we should put all these in perspective.

Ok, urfriend,

You are doing well.

Considering that you are not a permanent staff at hitv

You are doing an invaluable job at laundering their image and I hope the management appreciate your efforts.

Now, WHAT ABOUT THE *DEDICATED MOVIE CHANNEL* that you mentioned somewhere on these forums?

Gamine:
Seriously, OurFriend, answer this question abeg.

I think DSTV has hijacked that one

@ahwuyen,

U are not quite getting it.

Fox news was not part of hitv offerings. You were getting fox news on hitv but it was Trend tv's Fox news.

Maybe you meant fox sports which has always been part of hitv(though its the most unstable channel on hitv).

the cnbc africa was only available on hitv cable(terrestrial or whatever they call it.)

maybe its now added to the sattelite platform, hence the announcement by urfriend.

@ A K O

I didnt watch it. Was watching the Euro 2008.

Pls could you summarise what happened?

Anybody?

@toskom

Na today? (we have been hearing this since december last year)

Are u a real member of staff with hitv or are you a contractor with them like urfriend?

If you are a member of staff, then you should be able to give dates and be sure of your info.

Blessing was really poor in the interviews.
She wasnt deep with her answers and appeared very ill-prepared.

when she was asked what she would want to be remembered by and her ultimate goal, she finished by saying she wanted to affect the lives of people positively and to make heaven. For an NGO or a church administration position, that answer would have sounded great but not to the ears of business Moguls who only think success(in financial terms).
She also always appeared flustered by questions she didnt expect and lost all composure.

If we are to be objective, then blessing actually had to be fired(and she was my favorite)

Isaac was not very confident and was too laid back(according to the interviewers).
Isaac is intelligent and disciplined but doesnt appear aggresive enough to thrive in a competitive business arena.

Finally, the CEO agreed that a little agressiveness is required(remember Nnamdi, anyone?)

Eunice? Hnmm, among all three candidates, she was the one that could clearly define her goals, aspirations and purpose.
Eunice is intelligent and also street smart. She expertly danced her way around every question that she had no clue about and thus sounded like she knew what she was talking about.

I would say that I was not surprised that her interviewer did not ,mention the fact that she, being an Economics graduate, did not knw a number of economic terms.

Awosika: Whats Median?

Eunice: Well, u gotta think youth*** bla bla bla *** english fonetics, etc.

Awosika: You don't seem to understand what am talking about. You read Economics, right? Its a common term in Economics.

Eunice: You mean I should explain what it means?
Yes , damn it.(this is me now and not the gentleman, Awosika)

Eunice: when we are marketing we gotta think profit and the youth**** bla bla, some more fonetics.
For crying out loud answer the question and if you , an Economics graduate don't know what we were thought in Secondary school, then ill be gum-smacked(me again)

She finally manouvers and uses her street-smartness to guess close to the meaning. But Awosika didnt mention that to CEO(there were other terms that she couldnt explain that the other interviewer asked her).

Her greatest asset is her communication and presentation skills. She would always appear as some one who knows it even if she doesnt have a clue.

Isaac on the other hand is full of ideas and intelligence but has a hard time expressing it.

Blessing is also sharp but I suspect her lack of exposure(compared to Eunice and Isaac), showed in the last two tasks.

@donaremu

art movie2 is targeted at the arab community in Nigeria. Lebanese, Egyptians, etc.

It sold a lot of subscriptions for hitv.

urfriend said they want to start uploading new chanells starting with Zee cenima(Bolywood/Indian)

Now u ask urself why start with that abi?

Me thinks its also targeted at the large indian community in naija.

They(hitv) can be smart but can also be annoyingly frustrating at the same time

@urfriend

Dont know any other installers.

When I got hitv, I paid for everything, including installation and hitv installers did the installation.

So am supposed to bare the cost of this transition?

@urfriend

This is a nightmare.

You mean one has to go through that nightmare of an office?

Imagine the commotion this shutting down would cause?

Let me even check my tv now and see.

Woe betide anyone who makes me pay a kobo for any change

You say we should go with our cable antenna and receive dish and lnb, what about installation?

I paid for the installation when I got hitv so who is going to handle that?

@urfriend

I am new here and read some other threads on hitv.You used to have a partner nicknamed Rahym

Where the hell is Rahym?

Its obivious that you are some sort of contractor or system integrator with hitv and not really a staff.

Rahym on the other part is a full hitv staff so he should come back here and verify all this you have been saying about aquisition of new channels.

I wonder why he suddenly chose not to reply here anymore.

ilugunboy:
@urfriend,

Used to send such mail, but you can never get any acknowledgement, not to talk of response.

Unless you are telling me that things have improved.

Workers are few. The few workers there are overwhelmed by the volume of work.

Whenever I go there, its like a mad house.

They need to start employing and move into a bigger building

@senga

I wont doubt the subscriber figures.

about two months before the end of the EPL, they(hitv) went into the streets and were virtually selling the hitv decoders and dishes like the fixed wireless phone hawkers do(If you have seen starcomms, MTS, reltel and most recently, visafone guys selling on the streets, you would know that they can sell a lot).

And the price was brought down at that period to 14k.

What irks me is their slowness in getting content and channels when you compute the turn-over that they are getting.

They will keep doubting ait's capabilities of starting with 40 channels till they come and start and they will start saying something else.

I will say it again, the turn-over,considering the subscribers on hitv, should be enough to at least get them confortably reposition themselves.

@urfriend

With over 150 thousand subscribers, I dont think you guys are spending as much as u should on other content.

At 4k per month for each subscriber, my calculator ran out of space.Thats a huge turnover.

Please, if hitv is just a sports channel, then let everyone know.

GTV that started with hitv and pushed dstv out of the premiership market in the rest of africa just as hitv did here, has already added and uploaded new channels like discovery education and kidsco and some others.

But hitv keeps talking about plans to add channels.
GTV, is 'ploughing' back profits into the business to ensure customer satisfaction and make sure they position emselves at the top.

Hitv, on the other hand, seems to be just marvelling at the loot.

Dont tell me they borrowed money and are paying back cause GTV borrowed money too.

Urfriend, its not just sports that people watch and thats why DSTV keeps selling even without the premiership.

While we wait for all those carling cup, coca cola and the rest of them(which you can only show from next season), what do we watch?

Also, I have read some comments of yours on new content being added. Please note that a couple of 'series' added to the programes schedule is not the same as adding content like say, a dedicated movie channel, or a documentary channel.

I have read your comments just now that dates back to december of last year about adding new channels like zee, discovery , kidsco or something like that, etc. but this is almost june and none of those is up .