Is cable TV going downhill?

[jtmal0723]

I'm going to rebut some of your choices there...

23. ABC Family (formaly CBN Family, The Family Channel, Fox Family). Reason why: when Disney bought out the station after when Fox sold it. Like the Disney Channel, alot of the programming from ABC Family sucks these days.

I watch ABC Family for one show thus far: Kyle XY. If it were to move to another network and continue to be a strong show, I would agree, the Family channel needs to go.

25. Bravo. Reason why: Another chick channel. No affence of course.

A lot of guys watch this channel. Gay or not, female or not, it's a good channel... I like Top Design and Project Runway...

28. TLC. Reason why: no more education shows. Don't ever they know what "E/I" is? 

Sorry... I'm going to have to say no. They produce a lot of entertaining shows that I like... to name a few: Take Home Chef, Take Home Handyman, Little People, Big World, While You Were Out, Trading Spaces, What Not to Wear... those are the ones I like...

If you think I'm weird, just say so. I won't take offense to it. That is my rebuttal to some of your answers.

[WeatherSTARIII]

Well, we do have our own opinions. 

[Squizz]

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4. Tru TV (formaly Court TV). Reason why... Nancy Grace anchors (including Headline News), they have bad programming choices, and the overall theme changed. No one is watching 20+ year old reruns of COPS! I also think it was a bad idea to rename Court TV.
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I love TruTV, not as much as I love TWC but I love it. I love Forensic Files. Plus, I love the 20+ year old reruns of COPS!

[Mike M]

TruTV is still good. I like their pursuit/crime type shows, but I wish I had it on basic cable here. I can only get it on the living room TV and it's often in use by someone else. I do however have it on basic at my other house. COPS also often runs on my FOX affiliate.

There are still a handful of channels out there like Discovery and History that are good, though they got rid of several shows that I enjoyed watching in the late 90's/early 2000's.

[Squizz]

I.D. is awesome too.

[WeatherSTARIII]

I forgot to mention one more channel that I think jumped the shark:
 
34. Fox Busness Network. Reason why: Day one. Its basicly alot like their sister network, Fox News! I still think CNBC is better anyways.

[Squizz]

I hate Fox Buisiness... I do like Fox News. For buisiness, CNBC is a lot better, but I really don't give a crap about stocks. So I don't really watch either Fox Buisiness or CNBC.

[Mike M]

Not sure about you guys, but I think GSN has improved in recent months. They've cut back their own crappy reality game shows and brought back older game shows like the 2002 Pyramid, the Ray Combs version of Family Feud, among a few others. They also debuted a new logo this week, which I like better than the previous plain one.

IMO, GSN is currently at its best stage since before the 2004 relaunch.

[lfmusiclover]

Not sure about you guys, but I think GSN has improved in recent months. They've cut back their own crappy reality game shows and brought back older game shows like the 2002 Pyramid, the Ray Combs version of Family Feud, among a few others. They also debuted a new logo this week, which I like better than the previous plain one.

IMO, GSN is currently at its best stage since before the 2004 relaunch.

Agreed. I used to like GSN but once they started putting on their own shows I was quickly turned off. 

[tpirfan28]

Oh please.  2002 Pyramid sucks.  Dick Clark all the way.

And Fox Business sucks, too.

[lfmusiclover]

Oh please.  2002 Pyramid sucks.  Dick Clark all the way.

And Fox Business sucks, too.

I would have to agree. 

[WeatherSTARIII]

Oh please.  2002 Pyramid sucks.  Dick Clark all the way.

And Fox Business sucks, too.

I would have to agree. 

I agree as well. The old Pyramid was much better.

[narunetto]

I wanna see the old game shows in the way they used to show em. Seeing old episodes of the price is right was nice.

[Mike M]

Oh please.  2002 Pyramid sucks.  Dick Clark all the way.

And Fox Business sucks, too.

I like the 2002 one better because its more modern, and was the first one I discovered (I didn't come across GSN yet when it premiered). Though, that's probably because I was born in the 90's and haven't seen most of the classic shows when they were in production.

[Grgeiger]

I am going to throw a few more channels..

TV Land.. Now showing original programming rather than old sitcoms in the evening.

WGN America.. Showing 3 hour blocks of America's Funniest Home Videos in prime time.

TNN.. Giving up Nashville altogether and changing to Spike TV

VH1 Classic and MTV2 were suppose to be strictly video music channels.. An Alternative to MTV and VH-1 But I hardly see videos on any of them.

ABC Family.. Used to be CBN.. owned by Pat Robertson.. It used to be 24 hour religion. Then started to become commerical.. Eventually old reruns of Flipper, and Lassie were filtered in. It became the Family Channel..  I think it eventually was sold to ABC. ABC eventually was sold to Disney. Funny thing 700 Club is still on ABC Family. Now its more or less another teen channel..

RFDTV seems to be close to what the old CMT, and TNN were.. I was scared when I found they were going to air Imus in the morning. But they haven't changed much. They have become better. Adding old Hee Haw, Pop Goes the Country, Crook and Chase.. As long as they don't eventually become what CMT is today.. They will be fine. My guess is someone will buy them and dismantle the channel.

BBC America is an OK channel.