Posted on 10/04/2014 10:01:13 AM PDT by lowbridge
I take it that this does not apply to cable and satellite stations. I often see a two hour movie fill a three hour spot.
I know for a fact that it isn’t. The difference is I’m not just being a grumpy old man, I’ve actually taken the time to bother to understand how things work. I’ve taken the time to figure out that the broadcast networks don’t matter, that at their best they get about 10% of the population watching them COMBINED, that what is or isn’t on them Saturday mornings has absolutely no impact at all on what kids (or adults) watch at any give moment. That I (and any kid in America) can watch EVERY cartoon you think the nanny state fights against RIGHT NOW without even OWNING a TV. You’re obsessing about how artifacts from the past are interacting with the now without understanding what now is.
Kids can watch MORE of the cartoons you think are so precious now than YOU DID, unedited, and without commercials. Don’t mourn for them, if cartoons are your yardstsick for measuring freedom they’re living in a better world.
http://www.tvguide.com/Listings/
7:00am I see the two spanish channels airing content for kids in spanish (possibly live action), then Nick has a Spongebob marathon, cartoon network has Pokemon, and DisneyXD has something marvel. That's it.
Same situation at 8:00am
and at 9:00am
By 10am the two spanish networks have dropped children's programming
Only Nick, DisneyXD, and Cartoon Network are still airing cartoon...
At 11am NBC adds something called PoppyCat but it is neither morning (nor did what preceeded it program for kids). DisneyXD airs something called Gravity Falls (a 2 hour block of this cartoon). Cartoon Network airs Steve Universe. Nick airs Power Rangers (live action).
The SHARED experience and routing/ritual of this nation no longer exists. Just as people no longer buy their music, they let it fly at them randomly, eternally.
It’s all the same right? Like how microwaved meals taste just like the old way?
I WILL be happy when newspapers are no longer home delivered (even for free) daily, delivering OLD news (and purchased propaganda) in the most inefficient manner possible. I will also be happy when the talking heads news programs of Today, Good Morning America, et al and their evening counterparts CBS Evening News et all are gone.
That wasn’t the business model of old and there is no reason to perpetuate it in the internet age.
You saw 5 networks showing cartoons at the same time. There were only 3 to do so in our childhoods. That right there is a win for now. And that listing (at least when I click on it) isn’t even complete. Also saw cartoons on PBS. It lacks Discovery Kids. Probably a couple of others.
Sorry but that link proves me right. There are more cartoons on it than there were in the days of 3 networks.
The shared experience is dead. Has been for 20 years. Good you finally noticed. And TV dinners ALWAYS tasted the same going in as coming out, only things microwaves do is cook them faster.
It was the business model of old. TV and newspapers were just as propaganda oriented in the glorious olden days as today. The difference is back then they were the sole source of information and people couldn’t find out how grossly their “news” was being manipulated. One again now wins.
Not in the 1960’s.
darned tootin’ I mean shootin’
bfl
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