| Re: Tech TV Hopefully Comcrap won't butcher NBC even further like they sabotaged the former Tech TV network. I can just see Brian Williams fired and replaced with a G4 channel clone type with the excuse to bring in a younger audience to NBC.
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 rawgerzThe hell was that?Premium
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Grove City, PA | I thought that it was Charter that bought them but I guess not. Is G4 in any danger of going under yet? Their all sizzle and no steak mentality keeps me from watching. NBC sucks anyways.
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said by ToxicDrew:Hopefully Comcrap won't butcher NBC even further like they sabotaged the former Tech TV network. I can just see Brian Williams fired and replaced with a G4 channel clone type with the excuse to bring in a younger audience to NBC. The bigger thing to look out for is them pulling a Versus and makeing all but nbc OTA cable only.
also can they use must carry rules to say make others pay $20 per home for there OTA channel? |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | the issue with the OTA channel is that NBC is a network. the Affiliates make separate deals in their locals. this is why Disney for example cant use ABC as one of its aces in the hole, the cable/sat really dont have to pay disney to carry ABC because they pay a local TV station to rebroadcast that station.
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albie
join:2002-03-17
Decatur, IL
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said by ToxicDrew:Hopefully Comcrap won't butcher NBC even further like they sabotaged the former Tech TV network. I can just see Brian Williams fired and replaced with a G4 channel clone type with the excuse to bring in a younger audience to NBC. Brian Williams is what is WRONG with network television, he is a KNOW NOTHING VACCUOUS talking head, that has NOTHING in common with the likes of a Walter Cronkite or Huntley or Brinkley, or even Howard K. Smith.
The Brian Williams of the world have allowed NUT CASES like SELF-RIGHTEOUS sexually harassing phone sex addicts like Billy O'Reilly and his mortal enemy Keith OLBERDORQUE to take over the flow of NEWS in the mass medium of television.
Network television is much more the VAST WASTELAND today than it was 50 years ago when Newton Minnow made that claim.
Let Comcast buy a desert and call it the PROMISED LAND.
It will come to nothing.
The Japanese bought Rockefeller center and took a public bath.
Oil money bought CITIBANK at 25 and it is now pegged well under ten and that is only because stooges like BUSH and PAULSON and the second set of stooges like Geitner and OBAMA encouraged the MORONS in CONGRESS to charge its bailout on the public credit card.
Let the boys and girls at Comcast buy NBC, physics tell me that two sinking ships drawings water may sink faster than one.
The thought of someone thinking the likes of Brian Williams worthy of lament makes understand me how old an aging babyboomer like myself really is. |
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Yes they could use the must carry rule and charge another operators for NBC OTA. |
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said by albie:said by ToxicDrew:Hopefully Comcrap won't butcher NBC even further like they sabotaged the former Tech TV network. I can just see Brian Williams fired and replaced with a G4 channel clone type with the excuse to bring in a younger audience to NBC. Brian Williams is what is WRONG with network television, he is a KNOW NOTHING VACCUOUS talking head, that has NOTHING in common with the likes of a Walter Cronkite or Huntley or Brinkley, or even Howard K. Smith. The Brian Williams of the world have allowed NUT CASES like SELF-RIGHTEOUS sexually harassing phone sex addicts like Billy O'Reilly and his mortal enemy Keith OLBERDORQUE to take over the flow of NEWS in the mass medium of television. Network television is much more the VAST WASTELAND today than it was 50 years ago when Newton Minnow made that claim. Let Comcast buy a desert and call it the PROMISED LAND. It will come to nothing. The Japanese bought Rockefeller center and took a public bath. Oil money bought CITIBANK at 25 and it is now pegged well under ten and that is only because stooges like BUSH and PAULSON and the second set of stooges like Geitner and OBAMA encouraged the MORONS in CONGRESS to charge its bailout on the public credit card. Let the boys and girls at Comcast buy NBC, physics tell me that two sinking ships drawings water may sink faster than one. The thought of someone thinking the likes of Brian Williams worthy of lament makes understand me how old an aging babyboomer like myself really is. No offense but damn lol It's just the nightly news. I'd rather see Brian Williams then a 20yo pin head with a bachelors in looking pretty.
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I salute you. |
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said by ToxicDrew:Hopefully Comcrap won't butcher NBC even further like they sabotaged the former Tech TV network. I can just see Brian Williams fired and replaced with a G4 channel clone type with the excuse to bring in a younger audience to NBC. Actually, none of that was Comcast's fault, as TechTV was not among the assets Comcast purchased from Jones Communications. The TechTV meltdown was pretty much entirely the fault of Softbank (which owned Ziff-Davis, including Ziff-Davis Television, which ran TechTV, formerly ZDTV). The only reason ZD itself is around is because of CNET, Inc. (which bought ZD from Softbank). So you can't blame Comcast for the TechTV meltdown (just as Comcast isn't to blame for the death of PC Computing).
However, there *may* be talks to combine NBCU with Comcast's programming and production assets and spin-off the combined entity (which lets GE monetize NBCU, while letting them use that to shore up their non-broadcast assets, especially the insurance and banking arms, which are still dripping lots of red ink), a process similar to that used to create Liberty Media. |
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Hmm I thought they couldn't charge if they're forced to carry an affiliate using must-carry? If so, how is that at all fair, I could start an affiliate and just tell the Cable guys I was charging $200.00 a household. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK | reply to PGHammer
I remember when Ziff-Davis kicked ass. |
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 ssj4androidRedefining Reality
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Wyoming, MI | reply to PGHammer
Huh? Then why was the channel called "G4TechTV" while most of the TechTV programs were gradually killed off? |
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said by ToxicDrew:Hopefully Comcrap won't butcher NBC even further like they sabotaged the former Tech TV network. I can just see Brian Williams fired and replaced with a G4 channel clone type with the excuse to bring in a younger audience to NBC. I hope they don't start canceling shows like Fox without really giving them a chance to succeed.
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said by ssj4android:Huh? Then why was the channel called "G4TechTV" while most of the TechTV programs were gradually killed off? Softbank had *already* run ZDTV into the ground by then; G4 was started as a TechTV replacement (primarily for the cable systems Comcast had acquired from Jones *and* was going to acquire from AT&T). Remember, what was TechTV was started by Jones Intercable and ZD and was originally a subchannel of Mind Extension University, and later became Jones Computer Network. TechTV didn't even have a full slate or schedule of programming as JCN. In short, Comcast tried to *rescue* TechTV; however, the damage had largely already been done. |
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