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And this is why I no longer have cable.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FlyingSquid@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cable execs: I see your point. In 2024 we’ll be introducing trash reality shows that feature the weather.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don’t even need to feature the weather. TLC stands for The Learning Channel and no one learns anything from their shows.

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The only thing you learn from TLC is that you don’t want to watch TLC

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      • Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That's absolutely not true. I've learned that I may be messy sometimes, but at least I'm not walking through goat paths of garbage. I've learned that I may be a bit of a fuck up that enjoys recreational drugs, but at least I'm not walking on sunshine. And I've learned that I may be bit overweight, but at least I'm not bed-ridden and disappointing my doctor. I always feel better about myself after watching a TLC show.

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      • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I legit always thought it was Tender Loving Care.

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    • anonymouse@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d watch me some Tornado Alley Trailer Park Wives.

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cross it with Wizard of Oz, and you can get: Tornado Alley Trailer Park Wives on Survivor Island

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apparently, folks don’t realize that even The Weather Channel has already dabbled in trash reality TV.

    Some famous enough to have their own Wiki pages:

    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospectors_(TV_series)

    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Riders_(TV_series)

    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Thru_Hell

    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyros_(TV_series)

    • en.wikipedia.org/…/Lifeguard!_Southern_California

    Big list (pay attention to the ones marked “long form”): en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_…

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I certainly wasn’t. I guess the enshittification is complete.

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      • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nope, you neglected the worst offender… SciFi, that they renamed to SyFy (and I pronounce “siffy” or “siffylis” now) that used to have good science fiction but decided WWE and ghost hunting was the way to go.

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    • realcaseyrollins ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fox Weather is what the Weather Channel used to be and it's free:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesPl7zRbVY

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cable shifted to low information viewers across the board decades ago. Dumb people watch commercials I guess.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re making people watch commercials on the streaming services now too. There’s really only one solution left, matey.

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      • vexikron@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No sir, I am a good Christian Man, raised right.

        Whats my favorite Veggie Tales song, you ask?

        We are the piiiiirates Who dont do anything We just staaaay here And lie around

        Er um. Yes. Just a catchy tune! Nothing relevant about my online activities here sir, nope ;)

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      • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My popup blocker works on streaming so no commercials there.

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      • Dethedrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This chair be high, says I!

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    • hydrospanner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All the people watch commercials, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a correlation between the kind of person that can watch stupid reality shows for hours on end and the kind of person who watches those ads and it actually translates into them spending money on the things in the ads.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Probably so. I don’t know if home shopping channels are still on the air, but there were people who watched those religiously. I remember when TV switched over to digital broadcast, there was a big to-do in the town I lived in because a bunch of people watched a low-power broadcast station that broadcast a home shopping channel 24/7 and they wouldn’t be able to watch it anymore since it couldn’t afford the upgrade.

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  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is incorrect. There is also reality tv on the weather channel.

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s called “See which wildly underpaid meteorologists bite the dust this time. Coming at you live from inside the storm”

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      • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Image

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  • Cowbee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ✨️enshitification✨️

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    • GutsBerserk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the best use of this emoji, ever.

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  • mathterdark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cartoon Network then: cartoons

    Cartoon Network now: Teen Titans Go! on repeat

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Jesus Christ, I just looked at their schedule there’s a total of 7 hours of TTG per day. Where’s the Adventure Time? Where’s the Billy and Mandy? Where’s Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy!?

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      • littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s seriously infuriating, the catalog they have at their disposal and they just rerun TTG, a show that at the time caused TT fans to be legitimately upset. No one wanted TTG.

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      • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There is actually a lot of nuance to this.

        1. If TTG stops producing content then their rights to the IP can expire, same reason Sony had to make new Spiderman and X-Men films last decade.

        2. Changes in leadership and management to Cartoon Network are frequent and often produce a more straight-cut and less innovative direction for the network, the sort of people that institutional stock holders and WarnerMedia management think are the safe options: data analysts, cost minimizers, tough negotiators.

        3. For the above reason and more, many artists stopped wanting to work with the corporation, and new artists are aware of the issues plaguing the company so they also don’t want to touch it.

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      • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        there’s a total of 7 hours of TTG per day

        Holy shit, I’ve seen the memes but I just naturally assumed they were exaggerating… That’s actually ridiculous

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    • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You know it is targeted to preteens because EVERYBODY YELLS EVERYTHING!!!

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  • mdd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reality TV is cheaper to produce than scripted shows. Profit is the reason all they show is reality shows.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, but it is really funny how many people are putting out documentary quality output on YouTube.

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      • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s also really funny how many people are putting out trash reality show quality output on YouYube

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    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No one has mentioned that MTV invented the reality show in 1992 with The Real World.

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      • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t have a problem with the concept of reality shows, I have a problem with reality shows being like 90% of all content.

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  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Enshittification IRL

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    • Tedrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Enshitification is just a symptom of capitalism. It’s been happening in real life forever.

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      • Lemjukes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The only thing new about it is the name.

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  • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TV in the US is so weird. I mean, we’ve got all of that in Europe too (on some channels), but whenever I watch American TV, everything seems to be cranked up to 11. The aggressive of your news shows, the quantity of your advertisements, the weird rules from the middle ages (no swearing or nudity on certain channels), etc.

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the Pharma commercials?! It’s insane, if I want a pill I go to the doctor/pharmacy and I say I have a headache they will prescribe some shit and I will pick it up, why would I need a commercial for that?

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      • Elderos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For-profit healthcare.

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      American here. I stopped watching “TV” about 15 years ago, and have streamed just about everything ever since. I’m also exposed to a lot less advertising now and my life is better for it.

      Watching television at family/friends house feels like traveling to a foreign country. It’s exactly like you describe. I don’t recognize any of it anymore.

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    • ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      TV shows produced in my country are reaching cringe-levels, especially the TV mag show KMJS. I lost my trust in watching TV. And noontime shows are spewing cringe and usually controversial remarks.

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  • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    MTV has been all over those "reality" shows and candidate shows since at least the late 90s though.

    Hey, I'm Bam Magera and this is Jackass Roomraiders where Xibit builds flat screens into your entire house for no reason after we had a hot girl go through all your embarrassing shit while you waited in a car of some kind outside watching together with your adversaries who go absolutely apeshit about anything that happens, also UV sperm detection light.
    NEXT

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. Although it still did music videos for at least a few hours a day until the 2000s. VH1 was a holdout for a longer time. Does that Canadian MuchMusic channel even exist anymore? We got that when I used to have DirecTV. It had a fun early low budget MTV feel to it which I knew was not destined to last.

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      • proctonaut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Watching headbanger’s ball when I got out of work in 06/07 is a fond memory.

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      • ZombieTheZombieCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I vaguely remember MuchMusic becoming Fuse at some point

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    • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      MTV invented the reality format. The first few seasons of The Real World were innovative and novel. Then the execs realized how much cheaper reality was to produce and flooded the market with garbage until it was all we had left.

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      • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        MTV’s downfall started when they got rid of all the Music freaks in the C suite that liked music and hired TV producers. Then we got Remote Control. We didn’t realize it at the time, but that was the downfall of MTV. Once those TV execs realized they could make non-music content, we got The Real World. It was OVER.

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  • bangupjobasusual@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The weather channel now is ads.

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  • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wasn’t Bravo originally for performing arts? I thought it used to show theater productions and stuff like that.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It did. After A&E stopped.

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  • plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Youtube in has done a remarkably good job carrying the torch of high quality documentaries and educational content beyond the realm of traditional media. Science, art, technology, history. It’s all there, and much of it meets or exceeds the quality of anything the old guard of cable TV channels ever managed to produce.

    I’m actually only now realizing that some of the most established channels have been reaching a wide audience with consistent and high quality content for the better part of a decade, and yet I can’t think of any who have successfully broken into more “traditional” media such as television or or even streaming services. That seems exceptionally strange to me. I mean, last month there were headlines about Netflix giving $55 million to an unproven director who proceeded to blow it all on expensive cars instead of filming the show he was hired to make. Who decides to hire that guy over any number of youtube creators who have spent the last ten years cranking out a short video a week along with occasional longer form projects, all with a small crew on a shoestring budget. I can imagine three possible reasons for this. No idea which one(s) could be the real reason, or if there’s something else entirely going on.

    1. Hollywood^1^ is so insular that they don’t even realize these people exist.
    2. Hollywood is so stuck in its ways that they refuse to believe these people could be successful running a larger production.
    3. Offers have been made, but those offers have been so restrictive that any number of youtubers have turned them down despite, one would assume, a large amount of money being on the table if they go along with it.

    That last one in particular seems unlikely, but I do recall that the popular Primitive Technology channel went quiet for a year or more before abruptly coming back to life. Rumors swirled that he had been hired to turn the concept into a TV show, but the production company kept trying to change things and he eventually gave up and went back to doing it his way on youtube.

    ^1^ used here as shorthand for the more corporate and structured entertainment industry at large.

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    • Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nickelodeon gave Fred their own TV show+movie and YouTube bankrolled some popular creators to make a few YouTube red originals, that’s about as far as I can think of

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I vote for the insular, navel gazing/ narcissistic reason.

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  • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Gold Diggers and Gold-Diggers caught me off guard, that’s funny.

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is there possibly this much market for this shit?

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    • Enigma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It happened during the 08 writers strike. Reality Tv is cheap to produce and requires minimal writing.

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    • Letto@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a feeling it has more to do with low production cost than anything else sadly :/

      milleNNialS Are kiLLiNg cAblE

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      • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No doubt that’s the main thing but how are there enough people to watch all these channels of garbage?

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    • Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lowest common denominator does better, casts the widest net and the morons eat it up

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    • abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most people don’t have standards.

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  • omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Weather channel has trash shows about surviving weather events

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    • clipper@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I get that the weather channel is the punch line here but let’s not act like it hasn’t also gone to shit

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  • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to love A&E when it was biographies and Lovejoy.

    The major TV networks were so embarrassed by being outproduced in quality by these niche cable networks that they raised the level of their programing to match. LOL, no. They bought out all the niche cable TV channels and turned them into trash. Hurray Capitalism.

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    • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A&E stands for Art & Entertainment. Before it was biographies it was cultural programming, like An Evening at the Improv, Breakfast with the Arts, and Live by Request (concerts). Same with Bravo, with fine arts and film.

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  • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The weather is pretty trash, but it’s not the weather channel’s fault :/

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    • droans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And when they’re not showing weather reports, they’re showing off dope tornadoes and hurricanes and shit.

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  • prettydarknwild@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TLC is the 21st century version of the freak shows

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    • flatplutosociety@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Say what you will about the entertainment merits of Real Housewives and Kardashian shows, at least the stars of those shows signed up to have their drama exploited for ratings. The producers of shows like Hoarders and Intervention are morally bankrupt. TLC is basically an entire network devoted to turning people’s mental health and addiction crises into spectacle for cheap entertainment, and it’s absolutely disgusting.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reality shows have people I never want to meet, mostly.

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  • nl4real@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, don’t worry, the same cancer is destroying fun on the internet, only worse because of the techniques they use to keep your attention that TV can’t replicate because it’s not an interactive medium.

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The history channel also has Nazi documentaries.

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “trash reality show that features trash pickers sorting trash”

      Lmao. That’s painful.

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      • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, that’s the new American dream… Oh wait You said painful yeah…

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    • MrJukes@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He’s just really into the history of World War 2.

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  • DannyMac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gen alpha: What are “TV channels?”

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    C-Span then: empty chairs

    C-Span now: empty chairs

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  • CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    RIP Discovery Channel

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  • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome to Costco, I love you.

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  • Restaldt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And one show being split up across multiple streaming services with only a few seasons on each service is why i have a jellyfin server now

    Cable also ruined streaming services

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All of that is on streaming, and worse.

    A lot of TV has always just been a way to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible. Moving from 4 channels to 200 didn’t increase the amount of stuff you could watch, it just spread it all over the place.

    It ate itself, streaming is going the same way. Maybe they’ll eventually catch on and have a service that contains every movie and TV show (once they’ve finished in the theatre, and past the Blu-ray/Pay-per-view part of their lifespan where people will pay for it individually), for like £30 a month, and it can be like Spotify and the other music services. A Kaleidescape for poor people. Until then I’ve gone back to mostly yarring it for any new stuff, and using a Jellyfin server.

    Nobody wants a dozen services to look through, even if they did have more money than sense.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is unfortunately not hyperbole but incredibly and sadly accurate because but neglects to mention aliens on history channel and that it’s hard to find weather on weather channel due to insane amount of ads. TV has gone the way of AM radio.

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  • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All their good content is moved to the streaming services. why make less money being bundled on cable when you can charge people whatever for the content and make way more? At least that’s why I think the content on cable is trash at the moment

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