Comments on: One demographic to rule them all

By: Neville Ross

Neville Ross — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:16:45 +0000

Drive-In Classics is going through the same shit, becoming nothing but a delivery system for Xena/The Incredible Hulk-the Baby Blue Movie is gone, as are most of the old B-movies and Rob Salem's show.

By: Neville Ross

Neville Ross — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:13:27 +0000

Because you're a smart guy, unlike Jack.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:12:56 +0000

Cure the disease by killing the patient. Why didn't I think of that?

By: Jack B.

Jack B. — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:16:40 +0000

"Something must be done to halt the assault on our television."

Why not turn it off?

By: MM

MM — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:46:40 +0000

Perhaps this has more to do with filling hours on their stations. They buy a movie package for one of their other channels. Then to save money, they rebrand another channel so that they can run the same movie package on that one as well. The same goes for lifestyle shows.

By: DAVE ID

DAVE ID — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:34:03 +0000

The bigger issue is the despecialization of specialty channels by broadcasters who are driven only by greed. They’re trying to do to television what they’ve already done to commercial radio.

Exactly. And then everything becomes bland and boring. If they always lean to the greatest majority, we'll have an American Idol station before you know it. Greatest Majority leaves a bunch of minorities left in the dark.

Then they blame the internet for their failures.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:03:57 +0000

What’s wrong with appealing to a (supposedly) female demographic?

Nothing. Just like there's nothing wrong with being a Top 40 radio station. The problem is when everybody does it and all the channels start airing the same programming.

And since when are education, horror, and sex “yours” (men’s)?

To be clear, I'm not making this a male vs. female thing. There are plenty of women interested in horror, or science. Heck, some of them even watch MANswers. The issue is that these broadcasters (particularly Corus) are replacing their programming by generalist stuff and junk lifestyle reality programming they think will appeal most to women age 30-55. The bigger issue is the despecialization of specialty channels by broadcasters who are driven only by greed. They're trying to do to television what they've already done to commercial radio.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:47:31 +0000

What's worong with appealing to a (supposedly) female demographic?

And since when are education, horror, and sex "yours" (men's)?

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:29:08 +0000

TLC = tender loving care network?

OK, but frankly can you really expect anything edifying to be radiating out of the "idiot box?"

By: DAVE ID

DAVE ID — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:16:07 +0000

They can't compete in specialty markets. Even Space was leaning towards including non-genre TV on their channel (this seems to not have happened yet)

Scream used to be HORROR only, they then included suspense and thrillers, then they changed to DUSK which play Psychic Investigators all the time.

But the most horrendous content drop was IFC which now shows mainstream movies all the time.

But it's not all about branding to women. It's not being able to market. If the money-making demo is women, they will of course follow the trend.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:27:59 +0000

Spike TV is only mostly an insult to our intelligence. It's not that I want more men's channels, it's that I want specialty channels to stick to their specialties and not all move toward the lowest common denominator.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:05:41 +0000

There's better movies on the "women's" channels. And have you ever tried to watch Spike TV? It's an insult to every man's intelligence....

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:56:30 +0000

For whatever reason, the CRTC doesn't require approval before even radical rebranding, so long as the network abides by its original terms of license.

By: Horonymous

Horonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Nicklelodeon Canada starts on November 2nd at 6:00 a.m.

It will take the place of Discovery Kids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_(Canada)

Another example of a broadcaster changing the content of one of its channels.
Most Canadian content on Canadian channels are old reruns. Little original Canadian content.
Very disapointing.

Prime became TV Tropolis
Talk TV became MTV
Life became Slice
Showcase is full of Global US programming.
Bravo full of CTV US Programming

Must be more just can't think of any now.