TV's Awful Decline

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On 5/28/2023 at 10:02 PM, mrschimpf said:

It's stupid because press conferences were designed to digest events during the day and be part of a rundown later instead of being covered live, but it's too late to go back to that form of distribution.

Exactly!!! It almost seems like current events go out of their way to occur during daytime soap broadcast times, lol. GH gets pre-empted heavily!

 

Someone made this obvious statement but it stings. We really went from FREE quality television giving us 24 episodes a season, to a paid model scattered across streaming services (with eight to 10 episodes having long breaks between seasons) plus the cost of internet. Despite the modern advantages, it almost feels like we've regressed.

Edited July 1 by MediaZone4K

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On 4/13/2023 at 9:02 PM, VHSgoodiesWA said:

Give me an old John Wayne or Perry Mason/Raymond Burr classic any day. Cheers, Seinfeld, Home Improvement too. The Conners is one of the few first-run sitcoms left that still follows a classic comedic format, not modernized and PC. It's been the trend for a good 10 years and especially took over during and post-Covid.

 

And I will always treasure Emergency! on DVD as well, especially in that that hit 70s NBC medical/action series w/Mantooth, Tighe, Fuller et al. was very much just about the work, both with the firemen and paramedics of Station 51, and with the doctors and nurses of Rampart General Hospital (that Chicago series that NBC has now doesn't come close).

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Didn't know where else to post this, I see "The Change Up" (2011) is airing at 11am ET on "E!" with a TV-14 rating. 

 

I'm surprised that a movie with such bold full frontal nudity is allowed to air in the daytime on basic cable with such small black censorship bars. How did this make it past the FCC?

Edited July 8 by MediaZone4K

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FCC has no jurisdiction over what airs on cable channels. 

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30 minutes ago, appleachian said:

FCC has no jurisdiction over what airs on cable channels. 

I had thought that the FCC had no authority over subscription based services channels HBO. 

 

It surprised me to see that movie air because I thought basic cable channels could only do such a thing at night.

 

 

 

Edited July 8 by MediaZone4K

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1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

I had thought that the FCC had no authority over subscription based services channels HBO. 

 

It surprised me to see that movie air because I thought basic cable channels could only do such a thing at night.

 

 

 

Only longstanding standards and practices adopted by the cable networks and their parent companies.  Since these channels are merely jukeboxes to air programming stuffed and covered with ads and promotional snipes/bugs, what's the use anymore?  They still exist because ESPN/Sports networks and live news channels are the ONLY reason cable and pay TV remains a thing. 

 

Once ESPN goes rogue, it may take pay tv with it, but it's high cost may put it in the same bind that Diamond Sports got into.

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The basic cable you can hear the F-Bomb a lot more than decades ago they have relax than in years past and also censorship orgs have moved onto streaming services, than cable or broadcast primetime TV. Little Demon did get attacked by The PTC & 1Million Moms which doesn't have 1 million members last fall. Otherwise, both leave cable & over the air broadcast alone. I think that over the air The Big 4 should try and talk with the FCC to let the F-Bomb fly since they use the other swear words which I don't believe are swear words other than the F-Bomb & and the C word.

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On 7/10/2023 at 11:53 PM, Megatron81 said:

The basic cable you can hear the F-Bomb a lot more than decades ago they have relax than in years past and also censorship orgs have moved onto streaming services, than cable or broadcast primetime TV. Little Demon did get attacked by The PTC & 1Million Moms which doesn't have 1 million members last fall. Otherwise, both leave cable & over the air broadcast alone. I think that over the air The Big 4 should try and talk with the FCC to let the F-Bomb fly since they use the other swear words which I don't believe are swear words other than the F-Bomb & and the C word.

Ehhh... I like that broadcast remains mostly clean. I don't think shows should have to curse or have explicit sex scenes in order to be good. A good drama can stand on its own without those elements. We've all seen how low standards can go when they're relaxed (example the VMAs).

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1 hour ago, MediaZone4K said:

Ehhh... I like that broadcast remains mostly clean. I don't think shows should have to curse or have explicit sex scenes in order to be good. A good drama can stand on its own without those elements. We've all seen how low standards can go when they're relaxed (example the VMAs).

I somewhat understand this opinion, and also acknowledge that it’s possible for some shows to use swearing as a bit of a crutch, but to me, that’s a problem of bad writing, not the existence of swear words. You could also argue that a complete ban on swear words makes certain shows unrealistic. Can you really suspend your disbelief about the average CBS police procedural when you don’t hear the occasional F-bomb flying around?

 

I understand having no explicit content before, say, 9pm, but I still think a complete ban is unrealistic in 2023. Although, given the fact that we’re about to experience a drought of scripted shows, this is probably a moot point. Oh well, get ready for Deal or No Deal: Electric Boogaloo.

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Surprisingly, MTV was airing music videos and a marathon of Behind the Music in celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. They even had a TRL like audeince show at 5 PM ET. It was teriffic, felt like I was watching Fuse from a few years ago. It was the first time in years that I watched that channel for hours. Sadly, the schedule for tomorrow is a whole lot of Ridiculousness.

 

Niche programming! Wish thise days could return. Maybe then there'd still be a reason to have cable.

Edited August 12 by MediaZone4K

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In this age of cord cutting cutting, this could have been an opportunity for broadcast networks to regain some strength (if not for streaming). Sadly we're running out of syndication options. It's went from too many talk shows to not enough.

 

With the boom of excessive newscasts, gone are the days when you could keep your TV on a local station for hours without changing the channel.

 

I'm sure station executives don't expect the same audience to sit through big news blocks like 4 to 6:30 PM. They're most likely banking on a different audience tuning in at the top or bottom of news hours.

Edited August 18 by MediaZone4K

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I Do realize that what I’m about to bring up seems to be old, but I honestly have to say that syndication should try American versions of UK game shows, like (cough) Pointless, and keep it an hour length. I’ll bet it would be a decent lead-in to the news. I’ll bet CBS wouldn’t mind it on most of their O&O’s at 3pm, before the 4pm news. I say it’s better than 48 Hours or Dateline reruns. Otherwise syndication would be going through the motions to a point where it ultimately dies.
 

Now, IF you’re wondering why I want this to be in syndication, IF you put it on a network, it is likely they’ll dumb it down to a point where you’re so turned off that you ultimately prefer the UK counterpart. But what if you wanted to Be on the UK counterpart, well unless you’re a British citizen, you cannot be a contestant on it, and you don’t Have all the time in the World to be a UK citizen. Another Slap in the face, right there.

 

Oh, as for why I say most of the O&O’s, KDKA’s 3pm news, I’m sure is #1. So, in Pittsburgh, it would have to be on WPKD.

 

Sorry for my stance on US counterparts of UK game shows, but Dumbing Down US counterparts turns me off, and it is unlikely Who Wants to be a millionaire will ever come back. I wish that would, and With a live audience.

 

Edited August 18 by AdamTheJ