Traditional TV 'past the point of no return' as viewership hits record low

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10. "Traditional TV" isn't offering anything worth watching

for the most part. How many reality shows can a person be expected to think are actually real? How soon we forget they only came about because of the first writer's strike.

Not that Direct TV is traditional tv, but even with them, all the stations do is rerun old and ancient tv programs.... and the same thrust of movies run every weekend, only on different channels, as they've all been divvied up and owned by a few select individuals.

You really don't dare get involved in the few shows that (at least) start out on a major station. If they don't shake the world and make more gobs of money that anything else, the shows are cancelled in the first season.

Frankly, I enjoy getting into bed at night and streaming an old SciFi Channel series. Until NBC bought them out, SciFi Channel had some good shows... like Sanctuary, Stargate, etc. Network execs took over, and half the time SyFy channel doesn't even broadcast a scifi show! At least, I've never been able to figure out the SciFi angle in XXX, Fast and the Furious, etc.

And don't even get me started on the Science channel! ARGH!!!!!