Did I miss something?

greg334 · Jul 19, 2006

OK I just went through the tv listing and there is nothing on the three major c**pworks.

You have Fox with So you think you can dance

You have NBC with America's got talent

You have ABC with The one: Making a music Star

And on CBS, the c**pwork with no integrity you have Rock star: supernova

OK?

I know that this is summer and in the last 20 or so years the c**pworks have no clue what to actually have for shows anymore. Maybe going back to basics, like live theater?

The other thing I guess that goes with all of my ranting is did you ever notice that the news c**pworks use video phones to report in areas that they can use satillites. it is really annoying when someone pays a fortune for their HDTV and the high priced connection for it to watch some two bit reporter talking to an anchor via a 15 FPS video phone - what a shame.

unorthodoxneon · Jul 19, 2006

If the simpsons, spongebob, judge judy, or fox 2 detroit news, or jay leno isnt on then my tv is on the music channels (which also are crappy, but on vh1 classics you may catch a really good video. I dont like the idiot box at all but thats because im not into the mainstream stuff.

Oh cant forget i'll have speed or spike on to watch car shows. Cant ever go wrong with that or sports!!!

DOWN WITH TV!!!

cheri1122 · Jul 19, 2006

What annoyed me about television, was anticipating an interesting, or funny program, then finding it so chopped by commercials, I couldn't enjoy it at all, so I just quit watching. All the teasers in the world can't persuade me to watch a program anymore. I'd have really enjoyed throwing it out the window, but it's good for watching DVDs.:+

greg334 · Jul 20, 2006

Well got something to add,

First I am getting tired of 760, wjr. They had someone on the Frank Beckman show this morning from some arab group, after the interview he said he will take some calls to hear from the listeners and then went to commercials. after what seemed like 10 minutes of commercials, Frank comes back on announces that he is now going to take the calls and then goes back to another 5 minutes of commercials. Beside the c**p job Paul W Smith has been doing lately (Smith; yes governor granholm, I think our listeners will be interested in the important news of the 10 jobs you created for the sewer cleaners at $7.50 an hour. Please tell us how you discover we have sewers in the state and how tough of a time you had convincing the leading sewer cleaning company in germany to open up a branch here and hire 10 highly educated sewer cleaners. You must have had a difficult time making three transatlantic trips to meet with them to pull this amazing feat off?) beckman is not far behind. And listening to other stations when I travel, I don't get how they can retain listeners with 45 minutes of commericals and 15 minutes for the shows each hour.

The other thing is I realise that the people who actually sit in front of the camera have for a lack of a better word have no brains. The other day one television news repeaters was giving a report of an accident on a freeway - "the accident happened around 10 am on one of the freeways near another freeway. No one was hurt but a car was damaged" - this is what she said. No mention where the accident was in the millions of miles of freeway or what that other freeway was, no mention what city it happened in AND the footage they showed was not of the footage of the actual accident, it was some footage of an accident a few days ago.

highway star · Jul 20, 2006

The bottom line is always money. People love the so-called "reality shows". I'm not sure when performing in front of a camera became reality, maybe when The Truman show came out. It costs them WAY less money to do something like "The worlds most eligible, rich, handsom, babbling moron" than to produce the average half-hour sitcom. At least we can see the repeats of Seinfeld and Frasier.

Tennesseahawk · Jul 20, 2006

Cheri... you mentioning the chopped up programs made me think of something from the other day. TNT was showing The Thing the other night. My nephew had never seen it, so I flipped it on. Talk about CHOPPED UP!!! How they could bastardize a great movie like that is beyond me! No Bennings getting taken over by the alien, no Norris's head growing spider legs to get away from his burning body, nothin! I turned it off and told my nephew to watch our tape of it. If you're going to show a movie like that, and keep it vanilla for the kiddies who may chance to flip it on, I have one thing to say. In the words of Bob Dole's anti-drug campaign, JUST DON'T DO IT!!!

cheri1122 · Jul 20, 2006

THawk, that's why I kept myself from doing a rockstar impression, throwing it out the window - because I can watch what I want, when I want, & pause it when I want refreshment, or rewind it if I'm not sure I heard that right, or was laughing so much I missed the next bit, all without commercial interruption, by popping in a DVD. See, I'm old enough to remember when an hourlong program broke for commercials once, in the middle, and there weren't too many, either, because the sponsors didn't want you to lose interest, haha, and a 30 minute show had commercials at the start & end, but not during the program.
What commercials have done to tv is kill it, and out of respect for the dead, I turn my eyes away. :'(

cheri1122 · Jul 20, 2006

I forgot to add: "reality" programming, and even more so, "news" , is far cheaper to produce than something with a script written by someone with at least half a brain, so that's what you will see the most of. And even though I really likes 'Frazier" & 'Seinfeld" & a lot of other shows, if I can't get the season on DVD, I'll just have to go without. I can keep watching 'The Simpsons" - that's funny, no matter how many times I've seen it!:7