When I'm randomly looking some music-TVchannels, i'm asking myself: "Why should there be a further remake, although it exists an original one, which is much better?". - and may be this is also a question some of may have too.

But the answer is very simple: Our Remake will be 1000 times better than the original, and this is based on the following reasons:

• It will be Freeware (like free beer ;D)!
• There'll be a multiplayer mode, because of this, it will be possible to "fight" against your buddys over LAN or internet.
• You'll be able to play it under windows, max and linux. (up to now tested on windows and linux - ubuntu 6.10)
• Up to date graphics and -engine (Alpha-Blending, Resolution of 800x600) for such a game category.
• Sound will be up to date too ;D.
• There'll be an editor with the possibility to create your own Movies, Advertisements, Scripts, News-chains... .
• A much more on reality based audience rating than in the original game. (Link: Details)
• There'll be the possibility to found categorized channels (like only sport, only culture ...).
• Instead of the "old" sending-stations, there'll be static defined areas for sending your program. As wished, you can place stations whose reach is calculated on the base of an inhabitants-dense-map.
• There's the possibility to send your program on 24hrs a day..
• Much more complex possibilitys in the creation of your own productions. So you can have some surprising success with upcoming "categorys" (like star searches and ...).
• The producing of movies, shows and series is not so time-consuming anymore.
• More categorys for the "sammy".
• There'll be different Newsagencys with different delivery-time. There's now one newsagency providing news with a delay depending on your Subscription-Level of the happened news-genre.

Calculation of audience rating

What's a tvchannel without his audience? Exactly...Nothing!

That's why we've used a high amount of time and work for the calculation of the ratings to make it as real as possible and to give the player a high scope in managing his/her program.

• The most important difference to MadTV1: Now there's competition between the broadcast stations! That implies that your own audience ratings are depending on the ones your competitors have. The competitors will have to share the audience in one broadcast area.
• There're now different target groups, with differend watching times and demands on the program.
• Series will gain more and more audience rating the longer they're placed on a special time mark and they aren't as high pertained from the competitors program than other formats.
• The image of a broadcasting station is calculated separately for each target group and the image has a strong influence on the audience rating. The image was detached from the competitors image, so your image can increase without decreasing the competitors image.
• Psychologic effects like "Audience Flow" will gain more importance. So a movie following a movie with alike gemre. then you'll have more audience rating.
• During a movie it's also possible that your audience is zapping away to another broadcaster. They do so, if another station provides them with something more interesting. That's why there'll exist an excitement bending for every genre the movies have. There's also the idea to use Scissors/Paper/Stone-principles to excel other genres.
• There're now weekdays which impinge on the audience rating.
• If a movie is shown, it will never gain full topicality again. The maximum topicality is also depending on the age of a movie.