Who even watches linear TV anymore?

Anonus · 2017-01-18 07:02:28

I feel like making up channels like Reakt (kids), Another Cartoon Network (adults who wish they were still kids), ABC Vik (an ESPN riposte from the man who used to own ESPN), and The ABC Version of NBC Universo (dual English/Spanish channel) is business suicide.

See the title. Apparently, only "old people" still watch linear TV.

Princess Alice · 2017-01-18 07:03:37

But your channels are so much fun!

Anonus · 2017-01-18 07:08:36

what sports fan would choose Vik over ESPN when ESPN has been wired into their brain for so long

Princess Alice · 2017-01-18 07:13:15

Vik just needs an aggressive advertising campaign

Anonus · 2017-01-18 07:16:51

ABC is already going to run 50 promos for it during the AFC Championship, what more does it need?

Crystal · 2017-01-18 07:19:50

Why don't you just put this stuff in your personal thread, or a separate personal thread (as suggested for the nth time).

Anonus · 2017-01-18 07:22:15

I'll do that

Anonus · 2017-01-18 07:22:39

But yeah this thread did pose a legitimate question

glennmagusharvey · 2017-01-18 07:22:51

Crystal said:
Why don't you just put this stuff in your personal thread, or a separate personal thread (as suggested for the nth time).

This is a topic that can be easily discussed by all, though.

Crystal · 2017-01-18 07:31:17

@GMH, but potentially applicable to AU too: Are you trying to ignore my larger point or not because that has nothing to do with any of what I said.

Imipolex G · 2017-01-18 07:34:50

what's your larger point?

Imipolex G · 2017-01-18 07:36:35

As for myself I'd rather eat a manure pie than watch linear TV

Crystal · 2017-01-18 07:40:29

Imipolex G said:
what's your larger point?

The same one I and Vash and probably others have made literally several times with Anonus repeatedly making thread after thread for every random thing he's stuch on as related to his corporate mogul fantasy instead of hosting all of them in some big megathread, which in and of itself would not be tiring if not for the consistently vague phrasing and misleading thread names. Also sometimes including a little bit of strange sweeping statements.

Anonus · 2017-01-18 07:40:46

Crystal said:
@GMH, but potentially applicable to AU too: Are you trying to ignore my larger point or not because that has nothing to do with any of what I said.

I just thought the OP out poorly is all

Salix Babylonika · 2017-01-18 07:50:30

I would like to watch linear tv but it's expensive so we don't have it.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-01-18 08:18:38

Crystal said:

Imipolex G said:
what's your larger point?
The same one I and Vash and probably others have made literally several times with Anonus repeatedly making thread after thread for every random thing he's stuch on as related to his corporate mogul fantasy instead of hosting all of them in some big megathread, which in and of itself would not be tiring if not for the consistently vague phrasing and misleading thread names. Also sometimes including a little bit of strange sweeping statements.

Well I don't object to what he's doing in this thread and I don't see a problem with it.

Imipolex G · 2017-01-18 08:30:12

well yeah, there could be an Anonus Corporate Greed megathread or something I suppose

Anonus · 2017-01-18 08:32:20

I had one once but it died

Anyway

Anonus said:

Crystal said:
@GMH, but potentially applicable to AU too: Are you trying to ignore my larger point or not because that has nothing to do with any of what I said.
I just thought the OP out poorly is all

So I'm going to edit it

Anonus · 2017-01-18 08:32:48

There that's done

Princess Alice · 2017-01-18 15:02:00

I think part of what people take issue with is that your thread titles seem to indicate a topic general enough to discuss (we could talk about linear TV and the merits thereof) but then the thread content tends to directly relate to the ABC Warner fantasy.

Section42L · 2017-01-18 16:20:36

I'm afraid that I have to agree with CA on this one.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-01-18 16:30:46

I sometimes watch "linear TV", but it's usually news, or special programming like say New Year's Day specials, or sports events like soccer matches or the Olympic Games. For fiction entertainment, though, it's rare. An occasional mini-marathon of Law & Order -- because it gets broadcast like this on TNT and USA channels, last I checked -- is probably the greatest extent of such watching that I've done in the past several years.

This is not just restricted to TV. I just sorta enjoy entertainment irregularly. There are people who watch current-season anime shows but I don't do that partly because I don't really like dealing with the regularity I think. Maybe.

I know one reason I may have stopped watching linear TV was because sometimes events might take up my schedule and make me miss stuff and I didn't want to miss stuff. Heck, this is one reason I fell off the Pokémon bandwagon.

As for entertainment time overall, I spend a lot of it on videogames and random internet-based entertainment, and relatively little on TV anyway. I'm not one of those people who's replaced TV with Netflix or Hulu -- I never had much TV watching to replace anyway.

Tre · 2017-01-18 17:29:27

Linear TV hasn't been A Thing that I regularly sit down to watch in years, no. I've been pretty disconnected from it on an individual level since we switched to DirecTV and they told my parents some bullshit about our then-Time Warner Cable internet equipment interfering with the signal in my room (meaning they couldn't put a box in there, despite it getting its connection to DirecTV from being connected to the same Wi-Fi network as the main box).

However, I do still think there's value to associating TV with specific overlying content brands the way we've had with channels. I'm more likely to try a show out if it's a Cartoon Network original, for example, because I tend to put higher stock in their work than that of its competitors (though this has surprisingly changed a bit, as I'm finding that the longer Disney XD's been around the more I've considered it a serious contemporary of CN).

Imipolex G · 2017-01-18 18:10:43

my mom watches linear TV but she is An Old Person

glennmagusharvey · 2017-01-18 18:27:48

Watching linear TV basically requires a couple things:
1. You have a very fixed schedule.
2. You have free time within that schedule.

Tatterhood · 2017-01-18 22:12:47

glennmagusharvey said:
Watching linear TV basically requires a couple things:
1. You have a very fixed schedule.
2. You have free time within that schedule.

Well, it also works if

1. You don't really care what you actually watch.
2. You can watch TV and work at the same time.

This seems to be a pretty common scenario, despite both parts of it being quite alien to me.

Who even watches linear TV anymore?

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