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Anthropoid -> RE: What's with The History Channel?? (4/18/2010 12:06:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
What's with the History Channel? The same thing that's with the NCAA basketball tournament expanding from 64 to 96 teams; stadiums being named AT&T Park as opposed to something like Candestick Park; and the rise and decline of newspapers and magazines (which were built on advertising revenue rather than subscription revenue and therefore oriented toward the advertiser rather than the subscriber).
Money.
The same wonderful, awful thing that persuades us - at least we Americans - that lining our highways with billboards is a good idea; that decorating our countryside with cellphone towers is a good idea; that lengthening the college football season from eleven to twelve or even thirteen games is a good idea (never mind that the student-athlete is rarely a student); and that we need to fill television programming during "family" hours with advertising for ED medication.
The freedom to pursue our dreams is one of our greatest strengths, but it is also one of our greatest weaknesses. Our insatiable appetites for more, more, MORE! money gives us everything from ridiculously long sports seasons to ridiculous History Channel programming.
Rant over.
Very well said Canoerebel!
I have a solution that has worked well for me for about 25 years: don't pay for any of it, i.e., mostly cable and other mass media.
Okay, granted I do have a subscription to Playboy, but I think its worth enduring the advert-drivel for that [:D]
Wife grew up without TV entirely, and I quit my cable-addiction in about 1980. Just to check things out in this 21st century world, we resubscribed back last summer/fall for about 6 months. It was so underwhelming, so frustrating, so insipid, so worthless, so vacuous . . . we probably could've unsubscribed after a mere month, but we just left it for a while just to make sure we did not value it.
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