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In Reply to: RE: LOL! Elon to buy MSNBC? posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 24, 2024 at 13:10:02
Comcast is selling its entire cable TV operation. It's keeping NBCUniversal but not all of it. CNBC, E!, Fandango, the Golf Channel, MSNBC, Oxygen, Rotten Tomatoes, Syfy, and USA are going to be spun off into a separate entity to be called SpinCo.
The list of "ghost networks"--showing nothing but reruns--is getting longer and longer. This ties in with my post last week about Motor Trend TV.
Nobody's watching this crap but it's been devalued on purpose by management in the push towards streaming.
Even the broadcast networks. CBS likes to call itself the "most watched network," but it's only because it has the NFL. Something 90 of the top 100 rated broadcast TV shows last year were NFL games.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
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FOX has apparently escaped the downturn so far. Newsmax and others too. Maybe "conservatism" will save cable like it did with AM radio. Can you believe there was a bill in congress to prevent deletion of the AM band in new cars, esp EVs. Even though it will add to the cost of an EV for RF interference suppression. A sneaky means of discouraging woke EVism by further increasing costs.
Speaking of conservative, did you catch the this morning's NPR interview with your buddy Leonard Leo. It was surprisingly cordial and non-confrontational. Leo calmly outlines his goals. In some respects it's chilling because he has a plan and the support and means to achieve it. I'll probably listen again when I can concentrate on the message.
Just all of cable. I don't think Fox or Newsmax will be immune, it'll just take longer before the corporate parents opt for streaming.
Our cable package is completely worthless. TBS, TNT, USA, FX, FXM, AMC, BBC America, all recycle the same movies.
And then there are the refusnik channels: MTV doesn't have music, A&E has hours of programming that's nothing more than YouTube clips ( Neighborhood Wars, Road Wars ), the Discovery Channel has no science, the History Channel has no history, The Learning Channel is home to the 90-Day Fiance franchise, and other classic program such as My 600-lb Life , and Dr. Pimple Popper . BBC America no longer has any British programming.
The regular channels we can receive via antenna? You'd think the Sixties and Seventies never ended. I was reading last night and Mrs. Ghost was looking for something to watch. She paused on a channel with The Dick Van Dyke Show , followed by The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and The Fugitive
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 11/25/24
" I didn't mean news channels specifically"
Yeah, I got that. You made several good points in that post. But I'll disagree with the "ghost networks" streaming thing. I think that a lot of people, including us, like to watch some of the early legacy shows. Heck, The Ed Sullivan Show featuring Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson, the Beatles, ... nobody is showcaing such established or new talent these days. Green Acres, The Andy Griffith Show, Mission Impossible, The Rockford Files, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Twilight Zone, Johnny Carson, Hogan's Heroes, and more, ... these were all great shows in their day, and have stood the test of time as still great shows even today.
"The Tonight Show" is a joke and barely a shell of it's former self. It should have been cancelled after Johnny Carson left. "Late Night" is all about leftwing promotion. Etc. Heck, even on PBS, I see episodes of shows which are 10 - 20 years old. While more-or-less "new", their info is outdated. I'd much rather watch something new, or, 60-year-old broadcasts of Julia Child's "The French Chef".
We rarely watch current shows on MSM channels. Even Rissoli & Isles, Fraiser, The Big Bang Theory, and a couple of other "recent" shows on the secondary channels are better than the current dreck.
"Comcast is selling its entire cable TV operation. It's keeping NBCUniversal but not all of it. CNBC, E!, Fandango, the Golf Channel, MSNBC, Oxygen, Rotten Tomatoes, Syfy, and USA are going to be spun off into a separate entity to be called SpinCo.
The list of "ghost networks"--showing nothing but reruns--is getting longer and longer. This ties in with my post last week about Motor Trend TV.
Nobody's watching this crap but it's been devalued on purpose by management in the push towards streaming.
Even the broadcast networks. CBS likes to call itself the "most watched network," but it's only because it has the NFL. Something 90 of the top 100 rated broadcast TV shows last year were NFL games."
Main stream channels are a wasteland on the weekends for us. Football, football, football, baseball, baseball, baseball, basketball, basketball, basketball, ...
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Some of them were downright awful.
But even if you loved them, how many times do you have to see them? I loved Seinfeld but I can't watch it anymore. Other than three or four episodes, I can't watch the original Star Trek anymore either.
And I got news for you, Bub--the broadcast networks are a wasteland even when they aren't showing football or basketball games.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 11/25/24
I think you're the one who mentioned that X-Files reruns can be seen on COMET TV. So after the late night TV monologues I tune into X-Files (via over the air TV with the antenna) or a Seinfeld rerun. It's my bedtime routine.
Ya know, we liked the X-Files when they were new. But, for us, they didn't age well. Seinfeld, on the other hand, is classic psychological comedy, much like Fraiser.
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They very occasionally broadcast an X-Files episode that I didn't see but I don't mind many of the repeats. But you're right about Seinfeld. If I'm watching X-Files and it starts getting boring (I know within a few minutes), I'll switch to Seinfeld.
You're preachin' to the choir.
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In some respects it's chilling because...
the media had no room for fairness and equal time. Even on SNL!
"Even on SNL!"
Ha! Especially on SNL. "Surprise" appearance by Harris, my ass. Well, unless one believes that the Vice President can just show up with no previous security measures taken, and nobody on the SNL "talent" or production management or staff knew, and nobody on Harris's security staff or campaign staff knew. Barring all of that, it was a planned and scripted segment.
BTW, SNL and Late Night (with Stve Colbert) hasn't been funny for a looong time. Well, unless you're a Progressive Liberal. Don't even get me started on CBS Mornings with their leftwing anchors. Somebody here, help me out: How many pro-Kamala guests did they have on over the past few months, and how many pro-Trump guests? :(
The Left loves to hammer on with their "One Percent" derogatory narrative, but, it's clear that there are many very wealthy people who are lefties. Melinda Gates, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey (BFF of Gayle King), Gayle King, George Clooney, etc., etc. How do they square that?
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found in hypocrisy.
Harpo got $2.5M out of the deal . :)
Billionaire Taylor Swift.
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I *read* the text found here .
"In other words, I want to make sure that there's a level playing field for the American people to make choices about the lives that they want to have in their country . I'm perfectly happy having a world where people can make choices between various kinds of things. But what I don't want is a system where our entertainment system or our world of news media or our business and finance worlds are heavily dominated by left ideology that either chokes out other ways of thinking about things, or that just creates a system where sort of inappropriate political and policy decisions are being made in places where politics and policy don't really have a proper place. "
Into the popular culture and finance in a manner most won't notice till it's done? A level playing field isn't the real goal.
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