I love you weather channel, never change weather channel
And this is why I no longer have cable.
Submitted 2 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I lived for Local on the 8’s
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Back when we had cable, my wife would just leave the Weather Channel on as background noise.
FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ugh the nostalgia, takes me back
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
It’s mostly ads now !
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 years ago
My friend is a meteorologist for the government. He hates the weather channel. I’m not a weather nerd, so I guess I don’t understand the gripe.
BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m old enough to remember when discovery showed space stuff like, all the time. It was great!
It really changed in the 90s when congress pulled public funding for educational TV
JCreazy@midwest.social 2 years ago
Isn’t the weather channel just mostly ads now?
Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Always has been.
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Trash reality shows featuring clouds.
BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yeah I remember when the cable tv folks pitched cable like there wouldn’t be ads, vs. public airways that had to be ad-supported because there wasn’t any subscription for it. When they turned cable into ad wasteland I felt that like the fucking betrayal it was
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s only a matter of time before the weather reality channel featuring weather
crackajack@reddthat.com 2 years ago
So disappointed to hear about what happened to Discovery channel. Though their Youtube channel is still amazing!
sagrotan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We don’t have tv anymore since around 2000, not because “it’s all so bad for the kids” - it is, but that wasn’t the main reason, it’s just shit) we watched SpongeBob over Internet with our (at that time) little daughter in English, not our native tongue german, she had an easy entry into studying internationally because she just spoke English almost better than German. She told me once she even dreams in English most of the time, so we speak our own little germish/engleutsch mix during the day here, it’s partially more efficient to communicate that way (including some family neologisms)
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
What brand of stupid reality bullshit you think will eventually take over the weather channel? 🤔
spudwart@spudwart.com 2 years ago
Television is shit
YouTube is shit
Jikal@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Tuning to G4 and there’s a 90% chance it’s either COPS or Cheaters
WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 2 years ago
I’m an expat American who has lived outside of the US for 17 years. Last time I went back there was 8 years ago. 2 years ago I got a pen pal from the US who just LOVES talking about these trashy cable shows. I’m also kinda 48 years old. So, I remember when cable became a new thingy. People said cable programming was trash since cable programming came into existence. Sure, the programming wasn’t all realities. MTV had music on it. You know what the adults said about MTV (including my parents?) They said, “All that sex in the music videos. So perverted.” Just imagine the scandal of playing Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” every hour on the hour on MTV in its heyday. I remember telling my mother, “It’s a great song! I like it!” before being shuffled off to Sunday catechism, which I escaped from to smoke cigs in the woods behind the church/convent. I’d ride home from catechism in the car reciting the words to “Like a Prayer” and any other Madonna song that came to mind. Plus I’d recite some Prince at my parents, another nice rebel on the MTV cable tube played constantly back then. Maybe following reality TV is a new form of subversion. Maybe it exposes the meta of celebrity. People are hip to this, especially very young people. Very young people are so aware of the meta everything and know how to use it for subversion.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Young people don’t tend to have cable.
WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 2 years ago
Their parents or grandparents might, like I’m talking about. I’m middle aged and I don’t have cable. I wouldn’t have cable if I lived back home in the USA. I’m not talking about young people who are old enough and employed enough to live on their own. You totally overlooked the point I’m making (which, ummm, also connects with Netflix having reality shows, too?).
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 2 years ago
imagine the scandal of playing Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”
Is it because she kisses a black guy? It seems like a very non problematic music video, I don’t get the scandal.
FrostKing@lemmy.world 2 years ago
There were still some okay shows on animal planet, last time I checked, when I stopped at a hotel and turned on a TV. They had a treehouse building one that was cool… Don’t know why it was on animal planet, but still
thespezfucker@lemm.ee 2 years ago
What the hell happened, now everything is a TLC knockoff
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 years ago
“History” channel - Ancient Aliens
ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
The only reliable sources about history are preserved articles and respective reliable YouTube channels.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 2 years ago
TV in good old 'murica sure got enshittified damn early.
books@lemmy.world 2 years ago
In all fairness reality shows are pretty much what we watch on YouTube too
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Weather vs Weather
Since the Youtube algorithm blessed me with this nostalgia hit, I figure this is the right time to share it. Behold, hours upon hours of old Weather channel footage with music:
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Fookin ‘ell this goes hard
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
David Zaslav is the common denominator across all these, and he’s in charge of Warner Bros now…