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Has Greed Taken Over VH-1 And BET?

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R.D.P.

I say that because, I'm now noticing their programming is starting at unusual times. Something like TV Land has been doing for a long time now. Personally, I'm ticked off over it.

R.D.P. <><

P.S. I know TV land is very bad about airing more commercials than the actual program itself. Wonder if BET and VH-1 is now following in their footsteps? ???
 
Nick at Night is starting that crap too. Every episode of Friends after 11PM Pacific airs for 33 minutes. :p More greed, more commercials, anger the viewer, rinse and repeat. EXACTLY why I don't watch Viacom's channels that much anymore.

-crainbebo
 
As I've said in the past, unless it's Comedy Central (which seems to have unusual autonomy within Viacom because they're actually owned by a company called Comedy Partners which is fully owned by Viacom), I take Viacom network 'schedules' with a grain of salt. They don't follow usual scheduling patterns and love to screw with DVR's badly (ask anyone who has ever tried to maintain a Daily Show or Colbert season pass. They will change shows on a whim and load heavily on commercials. I wouldn't weep if anyone else acquired Viacom and threw their entire executive team out at all.
 
crainbebo said:
Nick at Night is starting that crap too. Every episode of Friends after 11PM Pacific airs for 33 minutes.
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And the lengths of the episodes themselves are probably pared down to less than 20 minutes.
 
What pisses me off is when they take new shows and do that "viacom time"

As example on Spike they have World Worst Tenants (funny show) at 9:00 Central. If I have too mmany things recording at that time I can catch the rerun at midnight but due to "Viacom Time" it is usually starting around 12:10 or so (yet the guide says midnight)
 
mrschimpf said:
As I've said in the past, unless it's Comedy Central (which seems to have unusual autonomy within Viacom because they're actually owned by a company called Comedy Partners which is fully owned by Viacom), I take Viacom network 'schedules' with a grain of salt...
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Even Comedy Central has out of whack start and end times. Yesterday, they aired "Hot Tub Time Machine" starting at, I believe, 6:39 PM, and ending at 9:01 PM.
 
Whenever you ask, "Has greed taken over..." It doesn't matter what the ending to that question is. The answer will always be "yes."
 
It depends on how you define "greed" but I don't think VH-1 and BET were being operated as altruistic, philanthropic, non-profit companies before they shifted their schedules by 3-5 minutes....
 
DToTheJ said:
crainbebo said:
Nick at Night is starting that crap too. Every episode of Friends after 11PM Pacific airs for 33 minutes.
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And the lengths of the episodes themselves are probably pared down to less than 20 minutes.
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My daughter gave me copies of the first and second season of Roseanne on DVD for Christmas. I was amazed how much TV Land/Nick@Night stripped out of the show when they air it. Two, sometimes three scenes a show gone to make room for more spots.
 
Is that a trick question?

Makes you wonder what demographic Viacom is aiming for: viewers who utterly lack the resources, intelligence or motivation to get their entertainment any better way? Is it some sort of experiment to see how badly viewers can be abused and still stay tuned to their channels? Apparently there is no shortage of media buyers who want to reach the coveted unmotivated moron demographic - they must make great customers.
 
I'm still annoyed that Bob Johnson sold BET Networks to Viacom in 2001. Hell, he could have sold it to Cathy Hughes and her warped publicly-traded Radio One empire rather than Viacom. There hasn't been any true broadcasting media outlet that actually provide quality entertainment outlet for black writers, producers, and/or directors since then. Viacom has placed anything of quality involving black entertainment on Centric, which is a premium channel or VH-1 while allowing BET to go completely down the toilet.
 
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