Nine and Fairfax to announce new streaming venture Stan today

My bus driver at school was called Stan – he wasn’t very good, I doubt this will be either. Who hasn’t seen Breaking Bad by now?

Streaming! Who’d have think if that! Once again Nine and Fairfax at the cutting edge. And such a relief that they have stepped away from the blokey, big boy culture they sometimes appear to have. Stan. Says it all.

Netflix is coming! Netflix is coming! Quick, let’s throw together a half-arsed competitor

Some agency/consultant jokers no doubt were paid a fortune to come up with Stan.
Why not Bevan, or Damien, or Rodney?

WOW – launch with Breaking Bad….the show that literally EVERYONE has already seen in some way, shape or form – i’ll certainly sit down and watch commercial free Breaking Bad…..oh wait i already have

South Park parodies are coming!

“popular comedienne Rebel Wilson” – what metric is used to determine popular.

As an investor you should be very worried – this market is already very competitive on price and content… I guarantee this will fail within 12 months of launching with a number of creditor very pissed off.

Why do you want to be called Loretta Stan?

@Jaguar Earlobes, thanks for reminding me of a classic!

Nothing says excitement, sex, explosions, high drama and suspense like… STAN

… sounds like a middle aged overweight cable guy from Jersey.

Satan?

@Earlobes, mate! you’ve nailed it.
Makes me ask why we have the likes of Stan – a totally crap idea right from the get-go, when creativity is obviously lying (eric) Idle in your location..
Yep, Stan is a fat, farty not very smart cable guy from …. @ died a little inside…

I think it’s worth noting that Stan will showcase the Breaking Bad spin-offs, not Breaking Bad. Also, the name Stan is so BORING! Clearly created by an overpaid pseudo creative…

what you’ll really get with Nine & Fairfax’s streaming offering.
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$10 says its Standard Definition at best.

@jimbo awesome…

I often wonder why so many people who work in the media industry and rely on it to be a thriving eco-system for their own livelihood have such an inherent negative and unsupportive attitude.

Yes, the two large players in Fairfax and News have a lot to answer for and they have been insanely slow to understand the shift that has happened over the past 10+ years with the rise of the digital landscape but it seems a shame to rip into something that they are at least trying when very little is understood about the offering.

To illustrate this point, so many comments have noted (incorrectly) how no one wants to see re-runs of Breaking Bad. The judgement is so strong that so many were unable to even correctly absorb the article and its details.

Like any market place, things flourish and things fail. I personally am encouraged to see some investment happening again from the large Media players – it’s good for the industry. News are investing in a Financial offering – at least they are trying something different too.

It would be truly awesome to have a media community who were open to conversation and debate based on something other than what we have here. If it is so easy, why don;t all of you put your own time, money and effort behind ideas and do it yourselves?

If its channel nine, (or any of the commercials for that matter) once you have started streaming, it will be interrupted for an add for another program and of course they will start it 5 minutes into it and you will have the end cut off by 15 minutes because that’s what they think we want. Don’t forget this government can’t yet see any need for fast broadband. Not too mention that their servers probably won’t have any capacity and will be overloaded if more than 10 people try and access it at once.

Wise choice of brand name, good luck ranking #1 for your own brand name 🙂