Semi OT: Tech TV goes gamer?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri May 7 21:46:32 2004

On Fri, 7 May 2004, William Donzelli wrote:

> Frankly, I never liked Tech TV, and very few of my hardcore geek friends
> liked it as well. I think viewership was really low all around.

I never watched it regularly. However, I appreciated it because it was
one outlet for me to exercise my TV star fantasies :)

> They could have purchased it just for the "license". While the cable
> channels are not regulated by the FCC like the broadcast stations, some
> companies (Infinity, Clear Channel, etc.) do this exact thing to
> independent radio stations just to get that "slot". It has nothing to do
> with the format, the employees, the listeners, or anything else, for that
> matter. Just the fancy bit of paper hanging on the wall.

Yep, that's probably the case here. Oh well...

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