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Changes in TV broadcasting
It's funny how network daytime TV has changed in a few short years. Most of the primary it was always a morning show, game show, and the afternoon news, then soaps and talk shows. Now the shows that ran for decades are becoming fewer and fewer and the replacements (usually some chat show like The Talk) don't last long.
I don't even watch daytime TV much as I'm not home, but from what I've seen this is the case. I also notice PBS airs fewer children's programming than they once did. I recall as a kid there were several in the mornings such as Shining Time Station, Mister Rogers, Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, etc. and then several in the evenings. Now it's just one or two shows in the evenings. There are a lot of things I miss about TV as a kid. It seems everything stayed pretty strong until about 2005/06 and that's when all of the changes started. I remember my mom watching all of those soap operas and during the time I was in college they all started going away one by one. lol I wonder if there are fewer women at home to watch them or they were just too expensive to produce. |
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Yes indeed .It changed for the worse.The tele dont go on here like it used too these days.I got rid of the extended basic cable years ago. I'm glad to see The Price Is right is still going on CBS.Its like AM radio went to news talk back in the 70's and 80's so no more AM gold.Whats left of the viewers are dumped down to the current crap on the air like no brainer reality crap shows,BS talk shows.Proctor and Gamble has to give up their soaps to this current rubbish which is on now.I have no idea how the local stations keep up with the FCC's rules with Childrens E/I programming these days.I never see them air kids shows anymore.Late night is not funny anymore since all the good late night hosts retired.Jimmy Fallon is great but the rest are not as funny.I rather see a late night movie or a drama show like CBS on CBS late Saturday night.
Another thing is today is the networks and locals got carried away with their news programming taking over the schedule like 4 am to 10 am and 4pm to 7pm. Thank God for the internet and Youtube.I can watch my favorites all day for free. |
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I seldom watch TV and then only "oldies" or educational (and cars!). I listen profusely to AM radio and can still hear music on my long-range modified radios, especially at night.
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Fully agree on that. And Fox network has news from 10-midnight now, along with 4-10am.
Not to mention most networks showing mostly infomercials during the day on weekends now. |
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Oh yeah, can't forget "Match Game 7x" either. Gene Rayburn had class. I liked the joke Bob Barker made one time on the Price is Right where a person spun the wheel so hard, that id he got caught and went under, "he would appear on the set of Match Game on the other side. I remember the prizes then too, Chevy Vegas, one time a small Cessna airplane, Commodore PET computer (on Let's Make a Deal) and of course, the Buick Opels. When we came in outside for a snack and a break, we would watch the Afternoon movies or cartoons, usually WPGH and WPTT in Pittsburgh ran cartoons and WKBN out of Youngstown ran "The Money Movie" where htey call people and if they were watching, if they guess the amount of the jackpot correctly, they'd win the money. They would play movies like the grade b sci-fi ones, the old Planet of the Apes TV series and so on. We'd also watch things like Lost in Space and others on the local channels. I remember on Sunday nights, "The Wonderful World of Disney." As we went into the 1980's, summer vacation, sometimes I'd watch the CBS Late Movie. Back in 1981, I had swollen glands and was on meds from the doctors. I could not sleep so I watch the CBS miniseries on Jim Jones and the People's Temple all through the night that summer. Powers Boothe wa awesome, then on, he became my favorite actor. I was born in 1966. I turned 50 a few weeks ago (July 8th). I feel I grew up in one of the best times and last good time to be a kid. There are times I wish I was 20 or 30 years younger, like most of us do, but if I had to give up all those experiences, both bad a good, I would say no. BTW, I heard some characters from Sesame Street, even some from the beginning, got the boot. I bet Jim Henson, and his son now, are rolling in their graves.
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If you want oodles of cartoons and anime (I'm into anime too). try www.kisscartoon.com
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Yes .I agree.i forgot to mention about the infomercials in my previous post.The only ones I do enjoy are the Time /Life music collections with some classic pop /rock/country artists hosting the show. |
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I literally cannot stand to watch TV for more than 1/2 an hour to an hour. We have Charter cable, and I absolutely despise it. Nonstop commercials on every channel. All 2000 of them. On top of that, almost everything is in letterbox. When I get my first roundie in a couple of months, it will probably be like shoving a square peg in a round hole.
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I bet the decline of kids shows on networks has to do with the dedicated kids channels now on DTV...
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NBC still has kids' programming on Saturday mornings, but it's nothing like what it was in the '60s and '70s. NBC's childrens' shows come from Sprout, a kids' cable TV channel, and are distributed over the network under the "NBC Kids" branding. BTW, cable, satellite, DTV, Roku ... have changed the landscape of American TV forever. There is nothing we can do about it; it could well be a cost-cutting move on the broadcast networks' part or some other reason, but whatever it is, that's how it is nowadays, like it or not. One thing I've noticed on cable lately, however, is the return in reruns of some kids' shows such as Saved by the Bell, a live-action show aimed at teenagers which aired in the late '80s and nineties on NBC Saturday mornings. The program is now on MeTV on Sunday afternoons. It is rated "e/i", which means it is educational and informative. For decades, childrens' programming on Saturday mornings was mostly animated cartoons; however, in the early part of this century, I think the FCC may have pressured the networks to put more educational shows on TV during this time period so that kids would actually learn something while sitting in front of the TV, instead of watching those animated shows which were not educational in the least. One other problem with some of the animated shows was they were (or might have been) too violent for kids, although this was not an issue in the '60s-'70s. It is much more so today, with all the gun violence going on in this country; the last thing kids need to be exposed to on Saturday morning TV is scenes showing cartoon characters being shot or killed by guns. One serious problem with this type of cartoon is that the character(s) who were supposedly shot and killed would get back up again in the next scene, which gives children absolutely the wrong idea about killing; in real life, of course, when a person is killed, they do not get up--EVER--regardless of what the kids may see on TV.
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Yes I agree.Disney,Cartoon channel and others took over the job as the same as the cable news channels like I said before is or has been eating away from the nets and the locals. |
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The letterbox thing does not bother me like it did years ago .I'm now glad they are doing it and not cropping to 4.3 for us analog TV fans . |
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