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Old 07-31-2016, 02:57 PM
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It did seem when I was a kid in the early 90s there were more Saturday morning cartoons. I recall NBC showing children's programming such as Babar recently on Saturday mornings. CBS had some Nickelodeon programs such as Blues Clues for quite awhile. Fox network has always showed quite a bit of educational programming on Saturday mornings such as Wild About Animals (which I thought was out of production but was surprised to find it still is as of last year), and some local student-produced programs. I actually did watch some of these programs in recent years as they were quite interesting such as the travel shows, and more interesting than the infomercials if I really wanted to watch TV on a Saturday morning.

Another thing I noticed was that the programs on PBS have gone from being mostly live-action to being animated. Around the mid-00s a lot of the new programs were animated. When I was a kid even in the early 90s, Sesame Street hadn't changed much from its early days but if I turned it on today, it would be much different. The older animated segments that were used for years aren't used anymore and there is a lot of claymation replacing puppets.

I rarely turn on the TV most weekday evenings anymore. YouTube is more interesting to me. I can watch many of the programs I used to see or even episodes I always wanted to see but never got to when they were on TV. (That is until they get deleted for copyright violations). lol I like PBS' long-running British comedies on Saturday evenings and find myself watching them most weeks. Especially now that they are airing back-to-back episodes and showing them later in the evening.
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Old 08-01-2016, 10:19 PM
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It did seem when I was a kid in the early 90s there were more Saturday morning cartoons. I recall NBC showing children's programming such as Babar recently on Saturday mornings. CBS had some Nickelodeon programs such as Blues Clues for quite awhile. Fox network has always showed quite a bit of educational programming on Saturday mornings such as Wild About Animals (which I thought was out of production but was surprised to find it still is as of last year), and some local student-produced programs. I actually did watch some of these programs in recent years as they were quite interesting such as the travel shows, and more interesting than the infomercials if I really wanted to watch TV on a Saturday morning.

Another thing I noticed was that the programs on PBS have gone from being mostly live-action to being animated. Around the mid-00s a lot of the new programs were animated. When I was a kid even in the early 90s, Sesame Street hadn't changed much from its early days but if I turned it on today, it would be much different. The older animated segments that were used for years aren't used anymore and there is a lot of claymation replacing puppets.

I rarely turn on the TV most weekday evenings anymore. YouTube is more interesting to me. I can watch many of the programs I used to see or even episodes I always wanted to see but never got to when they were on TV. (That is until they get deleted for copyright violations). lol I like PBS' long-running British comedies on Saturday evenings and find myself watching them most weeks. Especially now that they are airing back-to-back episodes and showing them later in the evening.
I have no idea whats on Saturday mornings these days.I remember Wonderama on Channel 5 from NYC Sunday mornings back in the 1970's,Captain Kangaroo weekday mornings. I usually watch PBS for the Brit-coms,This Old House and concerts.Is Big Bird still there?

Last week I found All in the Family complete episodes on Youtube .So far they are still on there and not deleted by the copyR-bots.The users are getting better to outsmart the bots with their tricks.
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Old 08-03-2016, 01:05 PM
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Somehow that is the way in Romania. Well, back in the '90's there whern't so much good tv programs - but you could get a lot of old movies and olt tv seriers and there wasn't so much stupidity promoted on the screen.
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:11 PM
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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.
We have Chortle here in Greater Bugtussle, too, & they S-T-I-N-K... It is always a race to see WHICH part of the service is gonna crap out faster-The Audio, or the Video. If the audio goes buh-bye, you can toggle back & forth between the channel you wanna watch, & the next one, up or down. The video will simply just FREEZE, & you gotta toggle that, too. Once it gets on a jag of doing this, yr only option is to request service, which MIGHT buy you a month of decent service. And they DON'T much give a damn about service, they would MUCH rather you get another service from them be it Fone, TV or computer. Most of the time you'll get stuck talking w/ol'Sahoob in old Waziristan, & he can never understand my hillbilly accent. But he will see that you DON'T have one of Chortle's services, & he puts on the full-court press to see that you do. I got fed up w/him once, used some VERY bad language, told him why would I wanna change phone services, half the time his cable & internet didn't work, I sure as shit wasn't gonna risk maybe my life to save a few lousy bux... Tickles me how the "Overseas" technical help guys are always sporting English 1st names, but I can barely get 'em to understand beyond "hello"..Nothing more than a big, ginormous "Fustercluck", if you ask me..
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Old 08-04-2016, 03:16 PM
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Oh, & Chortle lays the ads on thick as grease, too. They have this one dude, if you looked up the word "Smarmy", his pic would undoubtedly be there. Always wears a blue suit, & their "Advertisement Woman" always wears this dopey-ass blue dress that buttons across her shoulder. They have this "Too School for Kewl" theme music in their commercials that makes you wanna commit murder & mayhem. Grrrrrrrrrrr...
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Old 08-07-2016, 12:29 PM
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Too bad .All these years the cable companies are staying away with la-carte cable channel picking because it would put out some cable channels out of business.first I would dump all the ad infested sports channels and the reality crap channels which probably most of them.Get rid of the shopping channels. Dump the news channels since they are dishonest on reporting the truth and bias to the left or right. I dont need the foreign language channels except I do enjoy the nice looking women on them. I'm glad that I only get the first 25 channels now with the local TV channels.I still think one of the reasons they are pushing DTV and 4K TV is to get people to watch TV these days.The Nielsen rating are at their all time low for TV viewers. Get out of the crap programming glut maybe I will come back.

I have not tune into the 2016 Summer Olympics yet but its probably loaded up with ads every 7 minutes.
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Old 08-07-2016, 08:44 PM
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It would be fascinating if cable and sat let you pick and choose channels to have/pay for. There are a good number of floundering crap networks that ought to be out of business that would be, and it would reduce costs to NOT be propping up crap that no one watches....The internet is pushing us that direction...With hulu you have free choice of many networks, but with time delay. I've signed up to hulu. Now that analog cable is gone here and EVERY SET must have a box to get more than public access channels (the TWC/charter bastards are even encrypting the digital versions of the old analog channels :grr, we are running the "free" boxes that in a year or two will have $6 a head month rent charge...If hulu is good enough we may just drop cable once those boxes have rent cost....IMO they are off their nut if they think we'll put up with being charged ADDITIONAL monthly fees per set we want to hook up to watch TV.

I'd gladly pay a ONE TIME charge of $5-25 per box to buy the box, and have no monthly fee. It is just asinine to take away a service, then reincarnate it in a new way that grabs money on a NEW basis not previously charged for.
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Old 08-07-2016, 10:30 PM
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I'd gladly pay a ONE TIME charge of $5-25 per box to buy the box, and have no monthly fee.
Tom, you and the family should drop the service now and go OTA only. You've got a lot of channels with interesting subchannels beaming right at you.

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Old 08-08-2016, 05:45 PM
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It would be fascinating if cable and sat let you pick and choose channels to have/pay for. There are a good number of floundering crap networks that ought to be out of business that would be, and it would reduce costs to NOT be propping up crap that no one watches....The internet is pushing us that direction...With hulu you have free choice of many networks, but with time delay. I've signed up to hulu. Now that analog cable is gone here and EVERY SET must have a box to get more than public access channels (the TWC/charter bastards are even encrypting the digital versions of the old analog channels :grr, we are running the "free" boxes that in a year or two will have $6 a head month rent charge...If hulu is good enough we may just drop cable once those boxes have rent cost....IMO they are off their nut if they think we'll put up with being charged ADDITIONAL monthly fees per set we want to hook up to watch TV.

I'd gladly pay a ONE TIME charge of $5-25 per box to buy the box, and have no monthly fee. It is just asinine to take away a service, then reincarnate it in a new way that grabs money on a NEW basis not previously charged for.
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Tom, you and the family should drop the service now and go OTA only. You've got a lot of channels with interesting subchannels beaming right at you.

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Yea .Let the crap cable channels go off the air.Also on the other hand some of those small outfits are better then the big ones.When the corrupt idiots eliminated the analog cable and went to digital and later encrypted all channels.I would love to cut the cord.Everybody is in cahoots like cable and the broadcast OTA channels on ripping the viewers off from either end.Maybe one good reason why the DTV OTA signal reception sucks and the cable people are benefiting more subscribers to fill in the voids.On top of that .The OTA broadcasters have the balls to charge $5.00 bucks per subscriber with their monthly fee.What are they afraid to take the difference on jacking up the advert rates instead of fleecing its viewers.By right .The OTA channels should be lucky and happy that their channels are in the cable lineup. I have 6 boxes here 5 cigarette size ones and the full size one with is $5.00 bucks and the 5 small ones are $2.00 bucks each and I get 3 for free in my package.

What ruined cable channels is when they got rid of their branding formats and add non related programming and crap reality show in the mix.MTV,VH1,CMT,Sci Fy,old TNN.The Weather Channel to just name a few and plenty of others were great in the 1980's .During the 1990's is when they when to the skids.

To get into a sci-fi fix .I found complete movies on Youtube last Saturday night which I watched one which was a 1984 movie "Night of the Comet" and I will watch "Meteor" (1979) later this week.

I would love to pickup the OTA sub channels with the old movies and TV shows.Who cares about the main channel programming since most of it stinks.
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Old 08-09-2016, 12:39 PM
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I would love to pickup the OTA sub channels withthe old movies and TV shows.Who cares about the main channel programming since most of it stinks.
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There's no law that says you can't have cable and OTA. Get a converter box and an antenna, a cable switch, and three short cables. Hook the cable TV to "A", the converter box to "B", and the output to the transformer on the back of your roundie or TRK-12 that the cable TV had been plugged into.

If you are using a modern TV, it's even easier. Plug the antenna into the antenna input (no converter necessary), and the Cable TV service into another input (you'll get better sound, and likely better picture, if you do). You'll also be able to switch between CATV and OTA by remote.

I used OTA and subscription service together for more than fifteen years, before dropping the cable. OTA added channels in adjacent cities and local stations that didn't have must-carry, gave me HD when satellite was still SD, and allowed me to watch locals when cable or satellite were out.

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Old 08-09-2016, 01:08 PM
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Sad part is that out here even new sets with cable tuners need a stinkin' box because they encrypted EVERYTHING that is not an OTA channel...There ought to be a law against that.
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Sad part is that out here even new sets with cable tuners need a stinkin' box because they encrypted EVERYTHING that is not an OTA channel...There ought to be a law against that.
Didn't the FCC pass a law allowing people to use their own boxes?

My cable company started encrypting OTA also.
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Old 08-09-2016, 04:46 PM
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There's no law that says you can't have cable and OTA. Get a converter box and an antenna, a cable switch, and three short cables. Hook the cable TV to "A", the converter box to "B", and the output to the transformer on the back of your roundie or TRK-12 that the cable TV had been plugged into.

If you are using a modern TV, it's even easier. Plug the antenna into the antenna input (no converter necessary), and the Cable TV service into another input (you'll get better sound, and likely better picture, if you do). You'll also be able to switch between CATV and OTA by remote.

I used OTA and subscription service together for more than fifteen years, before dropping the cable. OTA added channels in adjacent cities and local stations that didn't have must-carry, gave me HD when satellite was still SD, and allowed me to watch locals when cable or satellite were out.
I'll love too. Dont forget I cant receive crap over here even with an antenna as I noted before.I used to get all local stations before the switch just with rabbit ears.
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Old 08-09-2016, 04:50 PM
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Sad part is that out here even new sets with cable tuners need a stinkin' box because they encrypted EVERYTHING that is not an OTA channel...There ought to be a law against that.
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Didn't the FCC pass a law allowing people to use their own boxes?

My cable company started encrypting OTA also.
I agree.I dont want to go much into a hot topic but some probably tried to come up with something but probably got bought off by the cable companies and got tossed out.
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Old 08-09-2016, 05:08 PM
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I was thinking today about the cable must carry rules.Are they still using them or they not using them.I notice over the years Comcast dumping channels in my area.I know the syndicated exclusivity "SYNDEX" rule is still used since Comcast knocks out shows like Entertainment Tonight ,Off network Sitcoms,Movies ,Sports,Drama,Game shows and other syndie shows out with a on screen notice and a tone. I think its BS but the rule saves the local stations when viewers run off to out of the market stations to watch their favorite syndie show and the locals loose out of the ad revenue and own the local rights to the programs. .I used too be up on this but slack off over the years reading the trades mags about it.
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