I miss the old independent tv stations that Fox bought up to become a ‘network’. Back in Detroit when I was a kid I used to love to watch channel 50, the old WKBD. Mostly it showed old reruns and movies, but it had a lot of local programming as well. The Creature Feature movie on Saturday afternoons, a few local talk shows, just lots of neat local programming that you never see anymore. Everything is broadcast network nonsense. You watch the same thing in LA, NYC, Detroit, Miami or whatever. We’re all turning into one big giant mass organism, all fed by the same TV. We’re all easier to control because all the big networks are owned by just a few people, and they decide what we watch and when we watch it. Things like DVR and video on demand make it look like we have more choices, but that’s mainly just a matter of WHEN we watch what they’ve chosen for us, rather than a choice of WHAT we watch.
Man, reading back over this I need a serious editor. Ah well, to late for that, I’m tired. In short, Fox and other network broadcasters BAD. Independent TV, GOOD.
I miss the old independent tv stations that Fox bought up to become a ‘network’. Back in Detroit when I was a kid I used to love to watch channel 50, the old WKBD. Mostly it showed old reruns and movies, but it had a lot of local programming as well. The Creature Feature movie on Saturday afternoons, a few local talk shows, just lots of neat local programming that you never see anymore. Everything is broadcast network nonsense. You watch the same thing in LA, NYC, Detroit, Miami or whatever. We’re all turning into one big giant mass organism, all fed by the same TV. We’re all easier to control because all the big networks are owned by just a few people, and they decide what we watch and when we watch it. Things like DVR and video on demand make it look like we have more choices, but that’s mainly just a matter of WHEN we watch what they’ve chosen for us, rather than a choice of WHAT we watch.
Man, reading back over this I need a serious editor. Ah well, to late for that, I’m tired. In short, Fox and other network broadcasters BAD. Independent TV, GOOD.