At one time, it was cool to have a network continuously telling you about the weather. Every 10 minutes on the 8's, you'd get the temps around your home area and nearby cities, see a map with storm clouds moving through, see how much rain you've gotten this year. There were live meteorologists around the clock. And we also had TWO CNN's, one long form and one that did 30 minute newscasts, 48 times a day. And we had a channel that showed music videos with cool VJs in a loft, telling us what David Bowie and Paul McCartney were up to.
I wonder if our lives are moving at such a pace now, with a menu of so many channels, that these channels no longer matter? I still want to know what the weather is, I still want to know what the news is. But nights and weekends, the Weather Channel is showing reality shows, with maybe just a few written lines about my hometown weather at the bottom of the screen. MTV rarely shows videos anymore. Headline News doesn't update the news every half hour anymore. I'm not really sure what "HLN" really is about. There's no Nashville Network anymore, no Court TV anymore, even though I thought those were good concepts too. There are no Superstations anymore, where we'd see Atlanta commercials and Braves games on WTBS or Chicago commercials, news and Cubs games on WGN-TV.
My dad's cable system has "AccuWeather." That is 24/7 weather, although I guess it's mostly automated, with only some live segments. And where I get my car fixed, their satellite dish system, not sure if it's Dish TV, has its own weather channel with live meteorologists whenever I'm there. But I don't know the channel's name or where it's from.
I wonder if our lives are moving at such a pace now, with a menu of so many channels, that these channels no longer matter? I still want to know what the weather is, I still want to know what the news is. But nights and weekends, the Weather Channel is showing reality shows, with maybe just a few written lines about my hometown weather at the bottom of the screen. MTV rarely shows videos anymore. Headline News doesn't update the news every half hour anymore. I'm not really sure what "HLN" really is about. There's no Nashville Network anymore, no Court TV anymore, even though I thought those were good concepts too. There are no Superstations anymore, where we'd see Atlanta commercials and Braves games on WTBS or Chicago commercials, news and Cubs games on WGN-TV.
My dad's cable system has "AccuWeather." That is 24/7 weather, although I guess it's mostly automated, with only some live segments. And where I get my car fixed, their satellite dish system, not sure if it's Dish TV, has its own weather channel with live meteorologists whenever I'm there. But I don't know the channel's name or where it's from.
