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*ugh* Discovery gives Billy Mays, Anthony Sullivan their own show...

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supposedly the dispute started when she looked at him and said "because ya know, we can't do this all day...." ;D
 
In other news...The Discovery Channel announces its return to producing garbage (defined as programming that strays away from what the channel was created for). The channel, which dabbled in garbage in the early 2000's, returned more to their roots in the mid-2000's with shows like "MythBusters" and "Dirty Jobs". Although mainly for entertainment, these shows did have some educational value (the original intent of the channel). The Discovery Channel will rejoin their garbage producing breatheren such as MTV (100% garbage), VH1, TV Land, Cartoon Network, AMC, and The Weather Channel.
 
I have to agree with jal here. Discovery has worked it's way back up into my top 3 places to tune in after being banished a few years ago. Up until this boneheaded move, I was under the impression that they were finally getting it right. Honestly, who gives a crap about these tacky infomercial guys and - more importantly - why stick such a show on Discovery.

Then again, their sister channel (Travel) now has the hoochie hour with "Bridget's Sluttiest Beaches"; a show that clearly fits in better with MTV's schedule than with the Travel Channel's other programming. Truly, I am not being puritanical about it. I tried to watch it and it was basically about a former Playboy model running around in a bikini and doing various activities in said bikini while the locals ogle her. Oooh, let's see Bridget hop into a kayak. Now, let's see a shot of her a$$ getting out of the kayak while Aussie lifeguards watch! Brilliant! ::)

For one thing, Travel Channel is not where I go to check out booty. Secondly, the show itself isn't interesting or thought provoking in any way. Nothing like the Passport series or Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations or Bizarre Foods or even Man vs. Food where you can actually learn something about different places. This thing doesn't fit in with those shows at all. One thing it is noteworthy for is that I could literally feel my IQ dropping until such time as I changed the channel.

Someone over at Discovery Networks made a decision to unload a bunch of crap on their otherwise well-programmed networks in order to lower the demos in some way. That's always the excuse for bad programming, or so it seems.
 
Alienate your core audience, and you lose not only them but everybody else in the process. Looks like the situation we're about to have on those 2 channels.
 
Couldn't agree more with you about MTV. Several years ago, one of my Indian coworkers saw on a news website that MTV was launching an India channel.

I walked across the room, shook his hand and said "welcome to the end of civilization!" :D
 
The Travel Channel is now owned by Cox Communications. Discovery Communications sold the channel a couple of years ago. This brings the channel back to its Atlanta roots, as it was started by Landmark Communications (sister to The Weather Channel at the time).
 
jal41 said:
The Discovery Channel will rejoin their garbage producing breatheren such as MTV (100% garbage), VH1, TV Land, Cartoon Network, AMC, and The Weather Channel.
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Cable came to my neighborhood in 1980 and included in the only tier was MTV. As comparatively tame as it was then I made the decision that it would be blocked from then on and, despite lots of vocal arguments from a series of teens, it has remained blocked. Best decision I ever made.

On a related note, I recently looked through my channel lineup with DirecTV and could only pick out five channels I had watched (other than locals) in the last three months. Because tier costs have now reached almost $70/month for all these unwatched channels I will discontinue DirecTV at the end of my current month. It largely has to do with all the useless garbage now being broadcast as well as the continuing flood of repetitive commercials. No more.
 
landtuna said:
Cable came to my neighborhood in 1980 and included in the only tier was MTV. As comparatively tame as it was then I made the decision that it would be blocked from then on and, despite lots of vocal arguments from a series of teens, it has remained blocked. Best decision I ever made.
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You weren't alone by blocking MTV..even in its early days. Back in the 80's ( 1982? ) I still remember the conversation my dad had with a friend of his who at the time worked for our local cable company.The top channel blocked? MTV !!! Oddly a close second was CBN !! Not sure why that was. Perhaps back then people had the idea that CBN was 24/7 Pat Robertson/700 Club or they didn't think a "Christian" channel should mix religious programming with secular shows like I Married Joan or Jack Benny.

Nickelodeon I was told had its share of "blockage" once they started accepting ads in 1985.

The biggest complaint against our local cable system back then? More Baltimore & Richmond TV...less Washington DC ( we were/still is in the DC DMA ). The cable system did give us Baltimore's WBAL but they never did give us anything from Richmond, Virginia
 
landtuna said:
I lived in Richmond for four long years. Worthless TV market.
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Sadly the same thing can be said with the other Virginia markets as well such as Hampton Roads, Harrisonburg, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Bristol as none of them are worth writing home about.

I think it was WRC-TV's ( Washington ) news anchor Jim Vance who suggested many years ago that all of the DC and Baltimore stations should just simply buy up all of the Virginia stations and re-broadcast their signals on them However give Raleigh-Durham or Charlotte..Hampton Roads.

Come to think of it..that would not had been a bad idea.
 
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