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Re: Tech TV 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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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | I remember when Ziff-Davis kicked ass. |
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 ssj4androidRedefining Reality
join:2002-04-14
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 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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