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HughBeaumont

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2. Well, let's see . . .

Tue Apr 9, 2013, 01:47 PM

Apr 2013

. . . aside from 3-5 shows, the programming is garbage, reality TV is saturated, completely unwatchable and played out, your channels aren't doing what they say they're doing (The LEARNING Channel . . . MUSIC Television, par example), your news is nothing but shiny-object tossing, corporate-fluffing right-wing crap, the cartoons get lamer and lamer every year, even your fucking cooking shows . . . something as routine as COOKING or making cupcakes or crafts . . . are "WARS", we don't need 6 religious channels and you still won't embrace a la carte.

Gee, why WOULDN'T we abandon the idiot box?

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Broadcasters Worry About 'Zero TV' Homes [View all] Purveyor Apr 2013 OP

They would have to create a Democratic Underground channel LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #1

Well, let's see . . . HughBeaumont Apr 2013 #2

+1 the race to the bottom for programming is turning people off n/t Kurska Apr 2013 #5

200 channels and nothing on but infomercials....screw the cable companies. nt msanthrope Apr 2013 #11

Oh man, if the The Learning Channel broadcast BBC documentaries all day, I'd be a couch potato. Marr Apr 2013 #17

Remember when The Learning Channel customerserviceguy Apr 2013 #38

Oh, god, I know. Honey Boo Boo. Marr Apr 2013 #43

I'm embarrassed when I see a Discovery "documentary" up next to a BBC documentary DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2013 #40

lol, yeah. Watching US documentaries, I can almost feel the producers editing the copy Marr Apr 2013 #42

The subthread wouldn't be complete without this guy. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2013 #45

Could not have expressed it better aint_no_life_nowhere Apr 2013 #30

Turn that crap off tabasco Apr 2013 #41

TV - advertising delivery medium KT2000 Apr 2013 #3

I wouldn't have TV if not for the fact I live in dorms. Kurska Apr 2013 #4

"Reality" shows and all of those commercials turned me right off...n/t monmouth3 Apr 2013 #6

We ditched our TV service Le Taz Hot Apr 2013 #7

I've thought of doing that as well Floyd_Gondolli Apr 2013 #20

Wellllllll, Le Taz Hot Apr 2013 #34

You can count me as one. Don't miss the damn thing a bit. we can do it Apr 2013 #8

I cut the cord last year. I stream from Amazon or Netflix...and between the two, I have plenty msanthrope Apr 2013 #9

Same here and I use Roku to stream and they just keep adding more and more channels. Hooked Purveyor Apr 2013 #14

If they offered a la carte programming, this would be much less of an issue Orrex Apr 2013 #10

There should be a central bundle of major channels Skidmore Apr 2013 #15

Cut the cable: Starve the Beast (R) Berlum Apr 2013 #12

I HATE that picture!!! Just unscrew the damn thing--you might need that coax cable for something!! MADem Apr 2013 #26

That's me!!! MadrasT Apr 2013 #13

I'm a zero tv household RainDog Apr 2013 #16

It's a bleak world out there for the TV industry RockaFowler Apr 2013 #18

Playboy and Pan Am both failed because they were too "racy" for the networks. MADem Apr 2013 #28

We're a zero TV home. Not even internet or phone TV. hunter Apr 2013 #19

Do you even need cable if you don't can't care about sports? pstokely Apr 2013 #21

I may cut the cable if I can get streaming BBC programs somewhere on the net! LongTomH Apr 2013 #22

There are several options on Roku to pickup the BBC. You need broadband internet access though. eom Purveyor Apr 2013 #24

Buy a witopia.net vpn account, and tunnel to the UK bobduca Apr 2013 #44

I have not watched regularly scheduled programming for 10 years. Initech Apr 2013 #23

Over the air digital and Netflix. Fuck cable and sat tv. Ripoffs! n/t L0oniX Apr 2013 #25

They're about to lose me too. ananda Apr 2013 #27

15 years without TV or me. Two or three times a year I might look at something on idwiyo Apr 2013 #29

A la carte programming is the future. TroglodyteScholar Apr 2013 #31

The shear volume of media available over the internet Exultant Democracy Apr 2013 #32

What is cool about networks is that they broadcast football. Skink Apr 2013 #33

Ditched the box in 2002. politicat Apr 2013 #35

There's really good stuff on TV, if you know where to look. Warren DeMontague Apr 2013 #36

12 years we've been a zero tv home - I doubt if we will ever own another tv byeya Apr 2013 #37

I forced my broadband carrier to cut mine to TWC and SCAN. And don't watch it anymore, either. freshwest Apr 2013 #39