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"Mindspring News" <PW_7900@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I grew up with network TV and PBS as cable was a waste of money.  During
my
> college years I lived with people who had cable but thankfully didn't
charge
> me for it.  I never watched it.
>
> Now I live with someone who has to have DirecTV.  I don't begrudge him
this.
> He is a huge football and hockey fan and he pays out the wazoo to get all
> the games he can from them.  We have yet to find anyone else to offer what
> they do for sports coverage.  Other than that, they seem to suck like all
> the rest.
>
> Most of the sitcoms are recycled so badly we see the same show on the same
> channel within a month.  We see it again on a different channel within
two.
> The infomercials are so outrageously crazy considering what we spend for
our
> TV viewing pleasure.  We don't all work 9-5 and the choices in the later
> hours are enough to shoot one in the head.  Even the channel that shows
> Forensic Files repeat so often and (with DirecTV) there is no information
> available so we never know what the hell we're paying for watching until
we
> start and realize we already saw the thing a year ago.
>
> It's all a scam and we have to pick the lesser of all evils.  Good luck.
>
>
>
> "NetVoice2003" <netvoice2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:3c80a309.0307282154.677a423f@posting.google.com...
> > I have several complaints and suggestions about the quality and
> > content of programming offered by your service.  I hope that my
> > suggestions will help your cable company gauge the needs of its
> > customers better.
> >
> > 1.  Program content on most channels caters to teenagers and ignores
> > its older viewers.  I know of few teenagers who pay the cable bill.  I
> > know that the teen demographic is important to marketing interests,
> > but the exclusive focus on them results in a diluted product for the
> > rest of us.
> >
> >
> > 2.  Programming has become stale and dumbed-down.  How long are the
> > cable channels going to bore us with psychics, tornadoes, shark
> > attacks, WWII, and forensic crime shows?   Programming is limited to a
> > very narrow range of topics.  Content is always at the basic, Sesame
> > Street level.  Even if the topic is interesting, the same basic
> > material is repeated--like those dull National Geographic specials--it
> > is like never getting past the first three pages of a book.
> >
> > 3.  Reruns of reruns of reruns.  The cable channels need new movies
> > and programs desperately.
> >
> > 4.  Cable channels show programs that have nothing to do with their
> > stated specialty.  The Discovery Channel is obsessed with forensic
> > crime shows; that channel is supposed to be a science channel.  The
> > Bravo channel now is adding gay programming having nothing to do with
> > its stated cultural programming label.  The History channel slips
> > stealth porn shows (just look into the schedule) into its lineup in a
> > desperate, cynical effort to attract viewers.  I do not object to that
> > type of programming for those attracted to that material, but that
> > stuff should be on other appropriately-labeled channels.
> >
> >
> > 5.  Cable channels show inappropriate, offensive and obscene
> > commercials and promos during children's and family programming.  I
> > saw a 'Silence of the Lambs' promo during a Star Trek TNG show that is
> > viewed by young people (the promo is about a cannibalistic serial
> > killer).  On the same cable channel, I saw 'Spike' channel stealth
> > porn promos (stealth porn is disguised as legitimate programming, but
> > is a cheap attempt to grab male viewers) during the same Star Trek
> > program.  Is there no one minding the store at the FCC or the cable
> > programming operations?
> >
> >
> > 6.  Endless infomercial scams.  Don't be a vehicle for these consumer
> > scam operations.  It makes the business world look bad and it makes
> > your cable company look bad.  I respect the rights of legitimate
> > businesses to advertise but as the one that pays the cable bill in
> > this house, I don't want to pay for a blizzard of infomercial
> > rip-offs.
> >
> > 7.  Lack of academic level content on your system.  How about
> > university lectures on mathematics and physics?  How about a course on
> > English literature?  You have depravity (Howard Stern) on the
> > Entertainment channel; but differential equations and Melville are
> > banned in a de-facto sense.  C-Span channels address this issue
> > somewhat, but those channels have a very narrow focus (current events,
> > US History).
> >
> >
> > I buy your cable service for internet access and for a disabled member
> > of the household.  I would not purchase the service for the cable
> > channels; the programming is stale, boring, and in some cases, weird.
> > I do find that there are some very good programs and movies on your
> > service, but these are mostly reruns as mentioned above.  I am sure
> > that fresh, quality programming exists out there; try the Mechanical
> > Universe and the follow-up, the Mechanical Universe and Beyond, the
> > BBC series, I Claudius and House of Cards, to see what I mean by
> > quality programming.  Lastly, remember that, as the saying goes, the
> > customer who complains is my friend.
> >
> >
> > NetVoice2003
>
>

Sounds like a personal problem to me.
You get what you pay for.
If you dont like the programming, you could always learn to read.