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"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.
Actually, forensics are science.  Look up the definition of science before
you assume that.  Try www.dictionary.com
>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
What is your cable company going to be able to do about what OTHER networks
put on for their program.  The cable company will laugh at this knowing they
can do nothing about the programming of the networks.  I suggest you write
to the networks individually.

"Ben" <benesh@NOSPAMnew.rr.com> wrote in message
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> What is your cable company going to be able to do about what OTHER
networks
> put on for their program.  The cable company will laugh at this knowing
they
> can do nothing about the programming of the networks.  I suggest you write
> to the networks individually.
>

I tried out directtv satellite for 3 months and was never so pissed in all
my life.
On top of the networking commercials, directtv put in even more commercials.
They claimed it was the networks doing it. Bullshit.
You can tell who's adding the commercials in.
And the very worst of them? The sci-fi channel.
Every other commercial is an add for a network show.

What ever happened to the idea that because you're now paying for the shows,
you don't get commercials?
Or at least the numbers would be cut down.
I have charter now and quit paying for the movie channels simply because
there was nothing new to watch and what was being shown was on an endless
loop.
How many times in a week, or day, can you show the same movie?

I'm now at the point where I don't give a damn about watching tv as it is,
because there has been absolutely nothing new on the airwaves in over 3
years, if not 5.

As has been said, the history channel repeats WWII footage like it was first
run stuff every damn day.
Discovery channel pays way to much attention to forensic stuff and crime
reports that are so old it's pathetic.

I was watching the thing about wake island. One idiot stood there and said,
"And a certain young GEORGE W BUSH flew over the island in a....."
Duhhh. Excuse me. That would have been daddy, not GW. G W wasn't born until
1946.
http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/george.asp
O K so maybe it was a slip of the tongue.

When is enough enough?
Why don't we all ban together and pull the plug on cable?
When they have no viewers, they'll get the message.