Funny, my students always ask me if I watch it, and can’t comprehend why a 26-year-old white suburban male doesn’t watch it. Hint, kiddies: It ain’t aimed at me!
OK, that’s pretty weird. It’s even weirder than the rock-paper-scissors tournament I saw once on one of the ESPN channels.
Hockey, and anything on the CW network.
Dude, I think I just found CBC’s new after-HNIC programming.
What about that dutch oven cooking show they have clips of sometimes on The Soup?
A few years ago when all the cable channels started appearing, the CRTC in Canada set up regulations which required that channels be ‘bundled’ together for sale, and would share all the revenue of the bundle. And then the culture bureaucrats sprinkled each bundle with oddball cable channels that were politically correct (I think there was a lesbian channel, and a male gay channel, and a couple of channels devoted to women’s issues, etc. You can to skip through dozens of these channels to find anything to watch. Then a few years later, it was decided to ‘unbundle’ these channels and make them live and die on their own. Once they had their own individual ratings, it was discovered that some of these channels had audiences measured in the hundreds, or even less. Probably the families of the actors and producers and cameramen and such, and a few others. I remember reading the news on that and thinking, “My God, my web page gets more hits than that entire television network.” Pretty much all those channels are now long gone.
Man, there were some lame shows on those channels.
Not twenty minutes ago I was reading a newspaper in the break room at work here, one of those local-kid-done-good stories, about a Penn State student who just cleared the semifinals (or something) in the rock-paper-scissors comepetition. The national championship airs on ESPN (yes, that’s ESPN 1) later this month. The local competitor is “80% sure that he’ll compete wearing a bikini Speedo, hoping to distract his opponent.”
The national champion gets $50,000 (!) and a trip to China to compete in the * International* Rock Paper Scissors Federation Championship. I am not making any of this up.
The funny thing about watch ESPN coverage of something like a rock-paper-scissors tournament is the completely serious play-by-play commentary. I’m sure the commentators are thinking, “I went into broadcasting so I could cover basketball and football and here I am covering a stupid thing like this.”
I’d watch it if I knew when and where it was on. Dutch oven cooking rules.
I would imagine that people tune into the Nasa channel for specific events such as launches and the hard core viewer knows what’s upcoming on the NASA schedule.
Ages ago in Germany, they never had commercial ads during shows. However, every afternoon they would show ONLY television commercials for about half an hour. People tuned it to watch it. I was amazed, to say the least.
I always thought it would be cool to have a channel that simply had cameras on street corners - NYC, Berlin, Paris, London, etc. You could tune in and just watch who was walking by, see how the weather was, what they were wearing, etc. Sort of people watching from afar.
I remember a News of the Weird piece about a local cable provider that had a camera trained on an aquarium for a couple of weeks as a place holder for a new channel they were going to launch. When they introduced the new channel, people called and complained that they had canceled the aquarium channel from their package.
Apparently not :eek:
Paper-rock-sciccors is a BIG thing in Eastern Asia. I’m relatively sure that the government of Japan decides all policy issues by PRS.
It should be noted though that some people are stronger at PRS than others. My boss and I at my last company in Japan spent an evening wiping out the whole rest of the crew (about 10 of us) quite consistently.
IIRC NASA’s TV channel is broadcast over the internet. It had some pretty interesting stuff on it too: lots of documentaries and science shows, mainly.
This is actually an interesting idea. In fact I bet it has been tried, or currently exists in some form.
It reminds me of those web sites where you can get a picture of, say, the base of the mountain at Vale ski resort, or some beach in Hawaii or something.
My ex-girlfriend lived in an apartment building in downtown Indianapolis that provided all of its residents with free cable. One of the channels was feed of a camera that peered through the front glass vestibule, and out onto the sometimes-busy street corner in front of the state capitol building and the local Hilton. It was supposedly to allow residents to see who was contacting them from the intercom and buzz them in/refuse entry, but we liked to just watch people going by.
A few others I came across …
Bridges TV: Channel 260 on the cable system here at the 'rents house. It’s a local cable channel broadcasting locally produced Islamic-related programming. It’s all in English, and it seems to reflect a moderate POV, but … well, now it’s just a young woman reading stories from children’s books - “Stories For Little Hearts”.
Which gets me thinking … is there a Jewish channel anywhere? I remember decades ago, the public access channel in Buffalo wold air some show that just showed Haredi Jews davening. I’d tune back a couple of hours later, and they were sill at it. There would be a long table at the front of the room, with a group of rabbis looking on. It didn’t look like the sanctuary of an Orthodox temple.
The very upper channels on Dish Network: many are college and university channels, broadcasting shhows such as roundtable discussions on Bulgarian poetry, lectures about geologic formations in Northern Arizona, and so on.
The Knife Shopping Channel: it’s one of the many home shopping networks broadcast on Dish Network, only this channel seems to air nothing but sales for knives, swords, and the like. Production values are just a step above the storefront church broadcasts, with no souund-absorbing material in the studio. For some odd reason, almost all the presenters on the oddball mom&pop home shopping networks have southern US accents.
I think a good idea would be the fire channel. They would simply broadcast nice fires for those times you don’t want to build one yourself. The fire style would change every couple of hours going from say, a nice fireplace fire to a bonfire. Special content would include things like a blazing house fire with no commentary and a stationary camera. I know it would do quite well for us pyromaniacs.
I couldn’t believe they televised a dominoes tournament on ESPN. Then I watched it for hours on end.