David Zaslav is the common denominator across all these, and he’s in charge of Warner Bros now…
And this is why I no longer have cable.
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love you weather channel, never change weather channel
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I lived for Local on the 8’s
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Back when we had cable, my wife would just leave the Weather Channel on as background noise.
FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ugh the nostalgia, takes me back
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s mostly ads now !
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Isn’t the weather channel just mostly ads now?
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Always has been.
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trash reality shows featuring clouds.
BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
It’s only a matter of time before the weather reality channel featuring weather
crackajack@reddthat.com 11 months ago
So disappointed to hear about what happened to Discovery channel. Though their Youtube channel is still amazing!
sagrotan@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
What brand of stupid reality bullshit you think will eventually take over the weather channel? 🤔
Jikal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tuning to G4 and there’s a 90% chance it’s either COPS or Cheaters
spudwart@spudwart.com 11 months ago
Television is shit
YouTube is shit
WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 11 months 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 11 months ago
Young people don’t tend to have cable.
WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
What the hell happened, now everything is a TLC knockoff
Slovene@feddit.nl 11 months ago
“History” channel - Ancient Aliens
ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The only reliable sources about history are preserved articles and respective reliable YouTube channels.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TV in good old 'murica sure got enshittified damn early.
books@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In all fairness reality shows are pretty much what we watch on YouTube too
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Fookin ‘ell this goes hard
catfish@programming.dev 11 months ago
Gold-diggers have it real good, two areas of influence
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No they don’t. There is an ever increasing amount of gold diggers, and not a lot of gold havers to go around. So a few gold diggers are happy, and many are endlessly searching and wondering why they aren’t getting a proposal or commitment.
catfish@programming.dev 11 months ago
You make valid points