🚀 go-pugleaf

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
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> 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