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RE: I didn't mean news channels specifically....

Posted by Inmate51 on November 25, 2024 at 10:01:00:
" 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 While more-or-less "new", their info is outdated.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, ...