RTV ruined in Detroit.

[Carmine]

Out local RTV affiliate (7.2) has been reduced to a small window on an insipid weather channel. They are asking for your comments on this wonderful new idea. If anyone cares to comment, here's the direct address (which took forever to find on their shitty website):

http://www.wxyz.com/subindex/about_us/contact_us

Write you own or cut and paste mine below! (I had to chop down a few things to sneak in under 1000 characters) It is my hope that by being as caustic as possible, somebody will get a laugh and print it out for the employee break room.

Find the jackass who had the idea of combining your stupid weather channel with RTV and fire them yesterday. You've managed to ruin the only thing I've enjoyed on Channel 7 in years... That's right, I don't watch your regular depraved and idiotic ABC programming. The local news coverage is just fear-mongering and consumer info for dummies.

Somehow I knew it wouldn't last. Since I don't wet my pants at the idea of a summer thunderstorm (apparently like the rest of your audience) I can withstand full-hour increments without knowing your best guess at tomorrow's weather.

But when RTV came along, allowing me to relive childhood memories with all those great 60s/70s/80s shows, I was actually enjoying TV for the first time in years. Thus this morning when I popped on the TV at breakfast, I wasn't at all surprised to see RTV crammed into a tiny pop-up window, looking like a free website circa 1998.

So thanks. You crapped on a small joy I had. I'm not going to watch RTV surrounded by the weather forecast, scrolling text, pictures of Mr. Sun, blah, blah, blah. I doubt anyone else will either, and we'll just skip right past it because it looks like half a dozen other worthless weather info-channels already on cable.

If you are reading this; you've no doubt heard of the internet. You are aware that I can "log-on" to places like weather.com and get BETTER information than what you can provide on the edges of a TV screen. Perhaps you are also aware that they make portable telephones which can also provide me with weather information ANYTIME I want it, whether I'm in an elevator, climbing a mountain or taking a dump on the toilet. Maybe this is why 7.3 failed? Duh!

Great job Geniuses.