TV Viewers in Sharp Decline as More People Awaken to the Idiocy of Television Programming

Natural News ^ | November 15, 2012 | J.D. Heyes

[Bon of Babble]

It began with traditional newspaper circulation about a decade ago, and now the phenomenon has spread to television: Like millions of Americans who shun the daily paper, many are voting with their remotes and are turning off network TV.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

About the only shows I watch are on TCM and STARZ Western channel.
I saw AMC degenerate to commercial TV.
Then TNT and TBS degenerate to cop shows and cheap dramas.

IFC had good uncut movie on it, now it has gone commercial with crap.

Over 200 DTV channels and I only watch about two, so I listen to lots of their music radio channels but NOT MTV or such crap!

[HamiltonJay]

History Channel has been a joke for a long long time now...

They gave up anything remotely related to history long ago.. with alternat histories.. what ifs. etc etc..

I did watch the Hattfield and McCoy miniseries, but that was the first time I’d turned on the history channel in over 5 years, and I used to watch it all the time.

[Ammo Republic 15]

I pretty much quit watching tv as a preteen in the mid 60’s when I began to notice the tv demographics were changing.

Used to be that you could get up on Saturday morning and watch stuff like The Roy Rogers Show and Sky King and then one Saturday morning I turn on the tv and there is is a bunch of ghetto dwellers with one of them being called Fat Albert. It was never the same after that.

I really hate to be a hard*ss about this (laughs) but anyone who pays the cable companies or satellite for tv service is actually funding the demise of western civilization...(duck and cover!)....8>)

[Pining_4_TX]

I mainly watch sports, but you can’t get away from the filth even there because the networks show raunchy previews for their sick shows during sports programming. We are about to go the Roku route, so even though I will miss some of my precious college football games :-( it will be worth it to kick cable to the curb.

[ArGee]

Turns out it was an old I Love Lucy episode - still funny after so many years — without all the sexual angst, depression, stupidness and unreal situations that mark so many TV programs these days.

I Love Lucy was certainly unreal. But it was a good sort of unreality that allowed you to accept the unreal set-up that lead to the comedy. And the comedy was GOOD.

There was nothing real about the heaps of chocolates pouring out of the system that needed to be individually wrapped by hand, but that was SUCH an iconic episode.

[gaijin]

I have never seen sex and city, friends, melrose place, dawsons creekk seinfeld, vampires, british wizards with spectacles NONE OF IT.

been out of it for over TEN YEARS and i am proud of it.

Guilty pleasure: leafing through People magazine and marveling at all the people i do not recognize. Remember eddie murphy on sat night live? THAT is the last time i watched that show.

Im serious.

[Proud2BeRight]

It is simple human debris displaying their perversions and attempting to make people think the perversions are normal.

[svcw]

“Ow My Balls!”, while we drink Brawndo. it’s got electrolytes.

[who knows what evil?]

The 'Lucy' show had one of the best lines ever in the history of television:

"...and they call ME Superman..." Cracks me up every time I see that clip.

[svcw]

The one with James Burke?
The show was/is brilliant.

[dfwgator]

That’s the one....Sandy reminded me of “The Trigger Effect” episode.

[Smokin' Joe]

until the networks know who their kind is they’ll keep bleeding.

I initially read that as "...they'll keep bleeping"

Which seems to be about half of what goes on for dialogue any more.

[Ammo Republic 15]

Frank really understood television huh?

Been able to quote every line in that song since 1974...

[timestax]

TURN IT OFF, NOW !

[TomGuy]

Several of those ‘cable’ channel programs are getting massive audiences, when compared to some of the regular network programs.

Many regular network programs struggle to get 3 million viewers. The most popular regular programming shows [excluding major sports] seldom get 20 million viewers; they tend to get 12 to 15 million viewers.

[MaxMax]

Sometimes I turn on the TV to see what's going on and almost every time there's
homosexuality involved. Yesterday Target Store had a homo in their "Holiday" commercial
where a metro talking 20-something was calling another guy cute and wanted to invite him.

TV has turned into sodomite propaganda and it's grotesque and sickening.

I will not be shopping at those stores who do not promote Christmas at least as Christmas.

[TomGuy]

Gee, I wonder how many Founding Fathers were gay? hmm.. maybe History Channel will take that question up, considering such a small portion of the populace drives programming.

They are probably trying to figure out how to insert the Lesbian kiss, which seems to be mandatory on all programs now.

[oh8eleven]

History Channel has been a joke for a long long time now...
True enough, and it's not just them. A few weeks ago I noticed the Military Channel was running episodes of - Who Was The Real Jesus?
Too many channels like MC or Discovery, History, etc., have rerun their own material for so long, no one watches anymore.
While claiming new shows are too expensive to produce, they're happy to run anything now as long as the get their 24 minutes of commercials per half hour.

[dfwgator]

History Channel has been a joke for a long long time now...

I liked it better when they were "The Hitler Channel."

[TomGuy]

They are cutting out some of my favorite parts of Andy Griffith to make room for commercials

Several years ago, I was watching one of the old I Love Lucy programs [and I know most of them by heart, since I have seen them so many times].

One this particular one, early in the program there was an exchange between Fred and Lucy. It got cut to make room for commercials.

At the end of the program, another exchange happened between Fred and Lucy, but it was meaningless -- because it was dependent on the previous exchange -- which had now been cut out.

Those old programs had about 28 minutes of content. New 'half-hour' programs have about 21 minutes of content. If they try to put a 28-minute content, they must cut. When they cut, they lose something that was essential to the original 28-minute program.

But, the network philosophy is that 'content' is the filler between commercials.