Murdoch's Farsi1 TV channel

In Iran, what's forbidden is hot and Rupert Murdoch is cashing in

Washington Post: A satellite TV station co-owned by Rupert Murdoch is pulling in Iranian viewers with sizzling soaps and sitcoms but has incensed the Islamic republic's clerics and state television executives. Unlike dozens of other foreign-based satellite channels here, Farsi1 broadcasts popular Korean, Colombian and U.S. shows and also dubs them in Iran's national language, Farsi, rather than using subtitles, making them more broadly accessible. Its popularity has soared since its launch in August. "The story is so beautiful," said Maryam, a West Tehran housewife who was using a secretly stashed satellite dish on a recent day to tune into Farsi1's latest hit, "Body of Desire," a steamy Spanish-language telenovela. Maryam, who asked that her last name not be used, said she feels awkward watching some scenes in front of her family. Still, she said, she is "hooked.">>>

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Ari Siletz

Many thanks Sabzi_Polo

by Ari Siletz on Mon Jun 28, 2010 07:17 PM PDT

This means that the manufacturers or the importers of those cleaning products or foodstuffs inside Iran get away with paying Farsi1 to broadcast their ads on this supposedly illegal channel, yet some ordinary Iranian viewers get their satellite dishes taken away from them for watching it. Unless it is the exporters outside the country paying for the ads, in which case why is the product's distributor in Iran getting away with it?  If your recollection about the ads is correct, The IRI allows some business concerns in Iran to profit from Farsi1.

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Sabzi_Polo

They need escapism

by Sabzi_Polo on Mon Jun 28, 2010 06:40 PM PDT

The same reason housewives in the US watch soap operas, young women watch Romance Comedies and boys watch action films. To escape with their imagination. To not think about their dull/hard/repetitive lives.


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Sabzi_Polo

If I can recall

by Sabzi_Polo on Mon Jun 28, 2010 06:36 PM PDT

They ran ads for cleaning products, food stuffs and other Farsi1 programming. Nothing out of the ordinary.


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Marjaneh

Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

by Marjaneh on Mon Jun 28, 2010 01:58 AM PDT

hehe!

I wouldn't mind so much, if I didn't have to suffer the consequences of imposed, collective  stupidity.

Some of us are trying to preserve some grey cells or at least are banking on neuro-plasticity in old age, despite the likes of Murdoch! ;)  (I don't have a telly. There are better ways to die than from boredom.)

 

Stupidity is a luxury not everyone can afford... - Marjaneh


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MM

Fox

by MM on Sun Jun 27, 2010 05:04 PM PDT

While the Fox news network is definitely conservative and way out in the right field, Fox entertainment is sweeping viewers by putting on some of the most-watched programs in the US. 

The viewers in Iran used to have three main options; 1. be lectured by IRIB and company w/ some BS programming, or 2. watch the constant bickering and insults (even within) broadcast by Farsi sattelite TV channels, and 3. Depressing news on this and that.

Do you blame Iranians for being able to watch unhindered/unsensored movies and TV programs with friends and family in Farsi.

Give them a break.  This should even create some competition, I hope for better programming.

Good for Iranian viewers and Fox.


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Ari Siletz

Ads?

by Ari Siletz on Sun Jun 27, 2010 03:33 PM PDT

Does anyone know what sort of advertisements (if any) they run on this channel?

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default

More power to Farsi 1 and everyone else who can...

by farrad02 on Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:56 AM PDT

More power to Farsi 1 and everyone else who can cash in on the Mullah's dumb policy of media censor and filtering. Hellooo. Wake up! It's 2010!

 


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Darius Kadivar

Didn't Know Imelda Marcos was starting a Hollywood career ;0)

by Darius Kadivar on Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:07 AM PDT


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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Marjaneh

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:43 AM PDT

 

The same reason people eat Big Mac; watch dumb ass Holly Wood movies; pray to Imams who are in the bottom of wells ...

 


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comrade

Rebuttal: IRIB TV Channel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

by comrade on Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:43 AM PDT

Stoning Victoria. Every night after the evening prayer.

 

Never late to learn....//davidharvey.org/reading-capital/


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Marjaneh

I cannot for the life of me understand how anybody

by Marjaneh on Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:27 AM PDT

can watch the complete and utter idiotic drivel produced by  Murdoch. 

To top it all, people actually pay for it!  Unbelievable!

Every fascism is an index of a failed revolution - Walter Benjamin


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