Are Comcast and G4 run by 13-year-old kids?

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse, G4 has decided to rename The Screen Savers, formerly the best tech show anywhere on TV, to "Attack of The Show."

Do you ever wonder who is running that network? They obliterated a well-known brand, alienated and dismissed an audience that bought BMW's and Oracle software instead of monetizing it, and decided that running video game shows all day, every day, most of them repeats what a good idea.

Rarely do I say that I want a business to fail, but this one should. They deserve it. No media acquisition in recent memory has made less sense than this. Read the various blogs of the people that either got canned or left, and it gives you a good perspective about what goes on there. Paul Allen should be ashamed for ever having sold the network.

The irony in all of this is that the one last TechTV hold-over is X-Play, and it has gone relatively unchanged. It's ironic because TechTV did that one show better than G4 did the rest of the network.

2 Comments

  • Oh My!



    well I have no interest in G4, I did tell them as nicely as possible at the start that they were going the wrong way but.... it's done.



    and yes I think some rich kids who have parents that run comcast have given the kids a channel to play with so mom and dad can go make money.



    there are a number of old-time TTV / ZDTV fans who would love to see the old crew get a spot somewhere to do a TSS V2.0 show.



    Ehmm Mr. Gates? want to make some cash?? just fund the one show and let them syndicate it to some cable networks.

  • I think The Screen Savers went downhill once the got rid of Leo and Patrick. Once Kevin and his ditzy girlfriend took over I stopped watching it and haven't tuned in since.

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