http://www.reseachchannel.org has almost nothing left for content as of midnight pacific time last night and is also gone from Dish Network. They had a crawl for a few weeks announcing that they would cease operations due to technical difficulties as of 08/31/2010 at 11:59PT and to go to the website for more details, BUT, the website only mentioned the streams and the on-demand content would become unavailable. No mention of the actual TV network being pulled from Dish or cable systems (though I would guess the part about the service being unavailable to redistributors covers that as well). The Wikipedia page mentiones them in the past tense as basically the technical difficulty seems to mean lack of funds.
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The Research channel goes down
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FreddyE1977
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they should have done a little bit of research on how to market your channel
before picking the name "The Research Channel" :
before picking the name "The Research Channel" :
The snark isn't needed here. It was an educational service funded through corporate grants, donors and universities and I enjoyed quite a few of their shows. Unfortunately during a recession the last thing it seems companies want to do anymore is fund the public good, thus their funding must've melted away.
It's a shame we can put all this money into big commercial cable channels yet we can no longer spare anything for channels actually trying to educate.
It's a shame we can put all this money into big commercial cable channels yet we can no longer spare anything for channels actually trying to educate.
mrschimpf said:
That rings even more true when you see Ghost Chasing and idiots with 8 kids on The Learning Channel and Nostradamus/2012 prophecies and UFO horsecrap on The Discovery Channel.
I've never heard nor seen The Research Channel. It sounds like something you'd pick up as a wild feed on C-band sat in the 80's.
mrschimpf said:
And now we see what happens with a channel that tried to educate. Fail.
Honestly, I had never even heard of The Research Channel before reading this thread. Did any cable systems actually carry it?
Robnoxious said:
TLC ceased to have anything to do with 'learning' several years ago. Now it's more like 'Tender Loving Care' and skews toward not-so-research oriented females.
I think that Nostradamus tends to hang his medieval hat at The History Channel and not Discovery. From what I hear, he just signed a three year deal to have his shows rerun on History International ad nauseum.
BRNout said:mrschimpf said:
And now we see what happens with a channel that tried to educate. Fail.
Honestly, I had never even heard of The Research Channel before reading this thread. Did any cable systems actually carry it?
Robnoxious said:
TLC ceased to have anything to do with 'learning' several years ago. Now it's more like 'Tender Loving Care' and skews toward not-so-research oriented females.
I think that Nostradamus tends to hang his medieval hat at The History Channel and not Discovery. From what I hear, he just signed a three year deal to have his shows rerun on History International ad nauseum.
He signed a 3 year deal? He must not have seen much of a future past 3 years
In about two years, he's going to "retire" from his show and announce the formation of his own internet channel "N" which will soon be broken into "N1" [all about the N] and "N2" [no N, just reality shows and infomercials selling quatrain collections and workout videos]. He'll start on youtube and build out from there.
Nostradamus knows the future, and the future is in direct distribution.
Nostradamus knows the future, and the future is in direct distribution.
It's available on Charter as an On Demand channel and has about 5 programs listed. They all say that they're available until 9-15. After that who knows? I've never watched anything from there, other than seeing their listings in the On Demand menu.
tripinva said:
Correct - KWSU carries it. The -RC in KWSU-RC from the transport stream stands for Research/Create, according to the station's website.
KWSU website - schedule page: http://www.kwsu.org/KWSU_NWPR/Schedules/Daily_Schedule.aspx
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kenglish
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If you are looking for it, the proper spelling for their web link is:
http://www.researchchannel.org/
I used to watch them quite a bit on FTA satellite.
http://www.researchchannel.org/
I used to watch them quite a bit on FTA satellite.
From looking at the website, it looks like online and VOD content may be returning. The linear feed may be a goner.
This channel, like many other educational programming services (PBS included) are suffering from the bad economy. Viewership is near zero on these channels. These channels are designed to appeal to a limited viewership (mostly academia), so the funding will be coming from universities. Most universities are on orders to cut budgets and programs (that is the case here in Georgia). Funding channels that no one watches is the most obvious area to cut first.
BTW: I have a Master's degree and was a Graduate Research Assistant. I am not knocking these services in anyway whatsoever. They are a valuable asset to higher learning. However, everyone has to face reality. Programs that are hardly being used have to be evaluated, and decisions have to be made about their funding. If you have extra money to throw around...OK. But when schools are instituting special one-time fees and cutting services left and right...you have to put the money you do have to where it is most needed.
This channel, like many other educational programming services (PBS included) are suffering from the bad economy. Viewership is near zero on these channels. These channels are designed to appeal to a limited viewership (mostly academia), so the funding will be coming from universities. Most universities are on orders to cut budgets and programs (that is the case here in Georgia). Funding channels that no one watches is the most obvious area to cut first.
BTW: I have a Master's degree and was a Graduate Research Assistant. I am not knocking these services in anyway whatsoever. They are a valuable asset to higher learning. However, everyone has to face reality. Programs that are hardly being used have to be evaluated, and decisions have to be made about their funding. If you have extra money to throw around...OK. But when schools are instituting special one-time fees and cutting services left and right...you have to put the money you do have to where it is most needed.
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