Presenters on air when the channels closed were Peter Sherlock on bidtv and Far Mani on price drop. From what i've been told, they were just told to finish the current item on air and the fault caption came up. So, by the sounds of things no announcement was made.
Presenters on air when the channels closed were Peter Sherlock on bidtv and Far Mani on price drop. From what i've been told, they were just told to finish the current item on air and the fault caption came up. So, by the sounds of things no announcement was made.
Did the presenters have any idea that they were being fired? If they did, then I praise them for not reacting.
By reading a thread elsewhere it seems its been a car crash for many weeks. Some scruffy sweaty fat bloke presenting most hours and then a strange format where many people aren't allowed to buy what they want to buy apparently. No wonder its all gone belly up.
Obviously bad news for the staff when this happens particularly if they are owed many weeks wages.
Speed of the company's collapse came quickly, as the Bid TV twitter page has a last post made at 10:14am advertising a feature due to air at 10pm.
A post on Digital Spy says the plug was eventually pulled at about twenty past two this afternoon, though if I go back a bit further, the first post about this was done at 13:42, again on Digital Spy.
I haven't properly watched these channels recently but back in the day I spent many, many hours watching both bid-up and price-drop because they were genuinely entertaining. The different but complimentary formats of the two channels were really fun to watch and could be quite exciting, the graphics and sets were pretty modern (well certainly for price-drop), the music was great, many of the presenters and assistants were very watchable. The whole package ticked the right boxes. There was a point were it was actually pretty good television, even if it was a 17 hour commercial.
It's sad that the two lost all that and they became just two shopping channels with falling prices in a crowded market, the music went all horrible, the graphics went all minging, it didn't feel young and fresh like it used to.
I can still remember rushing home from school to catch the end of Sarah Hendy's shift and the disappointment of having to sit through a CD box set sale where they would play some of the always dreadful songs while the camera would pan down the track listings on the back of the cases. Those were the days.
By reading a thread elsewhere it seems its been a car crash for many weeks. Some scruffy sweaty fat bloke presenting most hours and then a strange format where many people aren't allowed to buy what they want to buy apparently. No wonder its all gone belly up.
Obviously bad news for the staff when this happens particularly if they are owed many weeks wages.
There have been problems for around a year now. Didn't they go into administration last year?
I wonder if the channels will pop up under a different name a few months down the line like ibuy did when Auction World collapsed?
Was ibuy related to Auction World?
I first found bid-up.tv by chance when i first got freeview in 2003. Peter Simon was clowning around with some draws on a coffee table with his legs spread apart while sitting on it and suggestively sliding the drawer in and out. It was also the auction format that won me over wondering if items will go for £1
iBuy was launched by one of the senior managers from Auction World and used pretty much most of the staff and resources from Auction World., but was actually owned by an American Company.
iBuy was launched by one of the senior managers from Auction World and used pretty much most of the staff and resources from Auction World.,
but was actually owned by an American Company.
Didn't know that bit! There were rumors at the time that it was Auction World under a different name.
iBuy was launched by one of the senior managers from Auction World and used pretty much most of the staff and resources from Auction World., but was actually owned by an American Company.