Viacom to Canada: "Axe Pick-and-Pay or we pull the plug." - Polidicks

[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;46187368]When you have the bae over for a movie date u need the tv don't expect her to watch your tig ass monior[/QUOTE] Hmm... I think you're drunkenly writing this from your iPhone.

Bye Viacom.

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;46187025]We've come to the point where the underlying issues with standard entertainment companies are begining to form a head. The [B]over all quality of television (as a whole) has, IMO, decreased severely[/B], to the point that the only thing I watch on TV are local television. I think that the entertainment industry is struggling to maintain its relevence in a world where "hollywood" is less and less important, and almost anyone can become an entertainer from their own living room.[/QUOTE] Compared to when?

The only thing that keeps me on cable TV is adult swim.

[QUOTE=lazyguy;46187563]Compared to when?[/QUOTE] I'm just going to throw the 90's here and cite a few channels TLC (The Learning Channel) - 16 hours daily of educational TV, how-to programming and late-night watershed shows like muder investigations or hospital reality TV (and not the glitz shit. This stuff had real gore). Discovery Channel - Purely an educational channel (used to even air The Magic Schoolbus on Saturday mornings) Game Show Network - 16 hours of game shows spanning from the 50's right up to present day Biography - 16 hours of biographies on people (okay, I can see that one eventually running out of programming) History Channel - Educational programming on historical events. I can go to any of these channels now and it will be some tacky reality TV bullshit or all-star poker tournament. I'm not even going to bring up channels like YTV because I honestly have not watched it in years. There's some ten years of people screaming about the awesome things on Adult Swim but I can't see it because again, I'm not paying assloads of money for a channel bundle, one of which I want to watch.

Fine, Viacom, I already cut the cable 2 years ago so fuck you. [editline]8th October 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=pentium;46187639]I'm just going to throw the 90's here and cite a few channels TLC (The Learning Channel) - 16 hours daily of educational TV, how-to programming and late-night watershed shows like muder investigations or hospital reality TV. Discovery Channel - Purely an educational channel (used to even air The Magic Schoolbus on Saturday mornings) Game Show Network - 16 hours of game shows spanning from the 50's right up to present day Biography - 16 hours of biographies on people (okay, I can see that one eventually running out of programming) History Channel - Educational programming on historical events. I can go to any of these channels now and it will be some tacky reality TV bullshit or all-star poker tournament. I'm not even going to bring up channels like YTV because I honestly have not watched it in years.[/QUOTE] I used to love TLC when I was a kid/teen because I would actually learn interesting things. What a fucking joke it is now.

Most television is so shit. My dad watches all these "reality" shows like Repo Men and like the entire history channel's line up. Finally my mom started questioning of they were actually real so I started looking everything up and proved most the shows were re-enacted. He was mad and doesn't even watch them any more.

[QUOTE=No_Excuses;46187764]Most television is so shit. My dad watches all these "reality" shows like Repo Men and like the entire history channel's line up. Finally my mom started questioning of they were actually real so I started looking everything up and proved most the shows were re-enacted. He was mad and doesn't even watch them any more.[/QUOTE] Pretty much all of TruTVs "reality" shows are scripted I dont know why people watch them

[QUOTE]The U.S.-based company warned unbundling packages of channels to be offered one by one would set off “a consumer welfare destroying death spiral” for the TV business.[/QUOTE] Nope, it will just be a "welfare destroying death spiral" for shitty channels.

[QUOTE=pentium;46187639]I'm just going to throw the 90's here and cite a few channels TLC (The Learning Channel) - 16 hours daily of educational TV, how-to programming and late-night watershed shows like muder investigations or hospital reality TV (and not the glitz shit. This stuff had real gore). Discovery Channel - Purely an educational channel (used to even air The Magic Schoolbus on Saturday mornings) Game Show Network - 16 hours of game shows spanning from the 50's right up to present day Biography - 16 hours of biographies on people (okay, I can see that one eventually running out of programming) History Channel - Educational programming on historical events. I can go to any of these channels now and it will be some tacky reality TV bullshit or all-star poker tournament. I'm not even going to bring up channels like YTV because I honestly have not watched it in years. There's some ten years of people screaming about the awesome things on Adult Swim but I can't see it because again, I'm not paying assloads of money for a channel bundle, one of which I want to watch.[/QUOTE] Nowadays we have stuff like The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, etc. TV drama is in a really good place. I'm not sure how game shows 24/7 and ERsploitation is supposed to be any better than that.

[QUOTE=Cmx;46187854]Pretty much all of TruTVs "reality" shows are scripted I dont know why people watch them[/QUOTE] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUTyXmmEjw[/media] Ha, it doesn't even come off as natural.

What a hillarious threat to make, you move them online to streaming services, not only do they cut out a huge market, but now have to compete with the giants that are hulu and netflix (look what happened last time a telcom tried to compete with netflix), and also youtube, good luck doing that. Also google movies, chromecast, and even piracy gets even easier. This is such an empty threat, they'd lose an incredible amount of profit.

[QUOTE=ilikecorn;46187025]We've come to the point where the underlying issues with standard entertainment companies are begining to form a head. The over all quality of television (as a whole) has, IMO, decreased severely, to the point that the only thing I watch on TV are local television. I think that the entertainment industry is struggling to maintain its relevence in a world where "hollywood" is less and less important, and almost anyone can become an entertainer from their own living room.[/QUOTE] Pretty much this: the asteroid has already hit, but until the all the plants are gone, all the fat ass dinosaurs are gonna gorge on as many plants as they can. They know they're fucked; but they'll gouge every customer they can before they go under.

viacom pulled the plug on me recently (i have suddenlink) i think the same thing is happening to a lot of other small cable companies too

lol as if Viacom would actually do it. Bluff called, go fuck yourselves.

Internet killed the television star

To allow customers the channels they want would be amazing. I've never had Sky here in the UK, because there's so much football tied to it.