MAD AS HELL TERRRITORIANS

Shaun Micallef is Mad as Hell but nowhere as deranged as the many Darwinites tormented by watching #!*!# !!!! Channel 7 Two , its signal dropping in and out. Like Peter Finch, long suffering residents should be rushing to the window each night and yelling that they have had enough and Southern Cross TV should be taken off air if it cannot get its act together. Not only does the signal drop out with maddening frequency, it is then followed by an infuriating stream of adverts and 57 views of various parts of Australia. Across the city, idiot box watchers are no doubt becoming idioter,frothing at the mouth like rabid dogs . There is a broader issue here and that is that TV reception in many parts of Darwin is bad . No political party has yet picked this up because they are not really tuned into what is bugging Territorians . Using fruity language , a longtime Darwin identity said that because of the constant Channel 7 loss of signal and the incredible number of adverts, promos and the bloody (his mildest expletive ) travelogue , a half hour film extends beyond a performance of the Indian Mahabharata , the longest poem in the world , a short version performed at Perth and Adelaide Festivals running to nine hours . This viewer was reduced to fury attempting to watch the Channel 7 frontline police report which included footage of Darwin boofheads , the signal almost completely off the air, which is where Southern Cross should be placed by the licencing authority.