Not, die physically but die at the fact that my favorite cable channels will be gone. And, I’m not kidding, my favorite channels are going to be gone. What in the hell am I going to do come January 1. It will be like going back to the olden days where people play with wooden toys and discover gravity and read a lot. This fucking sucks. No more great reality shows that VH1 offers, that means no more Rock of Love, or Celebrity Rehab. That means no more Hills or Made on MTV, that means no more Colbert Report on Comedy Central. I might as well be dead as all I will have left to do is blog and do school work. This could also mean more pregnancies as people will have nothing else to do but make babies and boredom could possibly lead to depression which possibly leads to more suicides. OMFG, OK, I have to keep it together, um….crap what the hell am I going to do. Oh crap and did I mention Nickelodeon, what in the hell is going to keep kids busy nowadays without cartoons, sure theres PBS, but kids get sick of stuff animals talking about ABCs. What the hell about SpongeBob Squarepants…how will kids learn Spanish without Dora the Explorer. You can read more about everything here.
UD: I should probably add that only Time Warner and Bright House cable companies will be effected.
UD2: Agreement has been reached channels will remain on the air.
That’s unbelievable!!!!
Why did they cut all of those channels? Seriously, it’s not even really worth it to have cable at that point.
It definitely wont be worth having cable, what the hell am I going to watch now, CNN which talks about the same crap every 30 minutes. All I know is that my cable company better lower the monthly fee. Even the LOGO channel will be gone and for some reason I was looking forward to watching RuPaul’s new reality show. And I was looking forward to the next Rock of Love on VH1. And it is sort of unbelievable that they would do something like this…which is attempt to ruin my life with boredom.
It’s a money issue. Advertising is dying because of the… well, the general lack of cash laying around. So Viacom, which makes the shows, is threatening to pull them from Time-Warner cable unless Time-Warner pays more in “affiliate fees of less than 25 cents a month for each subscriber”. Time-Warner is saying any additional fees would mean an increase in cost to the consumer, which could damage their business, but if Viacom takes the shows off the air there will be rebates from Time-Warner to their customers.
The good news is none of this matters if you’re a Comcast subscriber or, in my case, Canadian. And you’ll still be able to watch the shows on their websites.
Try the Sci Fi channel or Cartoon Network?
Or if you can, switch to DirecTV?
Thanks for the wordup, and Bright House Network customers will be effected too. So, I’m going to be calling some family members and friends soon.
and, yuck devblog,…Sci Fi Channel
You know what I find funny about all this? The populist way one company tries to use the cancelling of the channels against the other.
During this Sabres season the local cable provided decided to stop providing the local station which covers all the Sabres games in Buffalo because of some kind of contract dispute. You either had to buy a special sports package or get a digital reciever to watch the games and they played all kinds of similar commercials telling people to write the local station and complain.
It’s like if we don’t get out Southpark and sports shows we’re all going to die. When did we all forget these are luxury items?
It’s not Time Warner or Bright House’s fault. Viacom is just demanding more money and those two cable providers, instead of having customers pay more money, are just negotiating with Viacom to make it fair for those who expect Nick and other MTV channels to be in their line-up.
I wrote this to Viacom suggest you do something similar: You misrepresented yourself. I will now go to any and all blogs I can to tell the true story. I called and wrote Time Warner Cable to demand the return of shows I watch all the time. The truth is you are making great money from the cable companies, while they lose money and your trying to gouge additional money out of them. Well, I guess I can lose my shows at YOUR foolishness. Like my grandmother would have said, “Shame on you!”
Honestly I have to say cable looks better without viacom. Aside from comedy central all the other channels are crap and I’ll be glad not to have them on my cable box anymore.
Twelve years ago, when I first moved into my current house, I could not get TV reception except for the local infomercial station. So we went without TV for 3 years. At first, I thought, how can I live without my favorite shows? Well, we found other things to do and to be honest, we were quite happy. Then one day, I was at a department store and there was a BIG sale on TVs and Direct TV satellite dish. It was early March and March madness was about to begin so I purchased the TV and the satellite dish and the rest is history. I switched from Direct TV to DISH several years ago. The TV that I purchased is analog and if I ever need to purchase another TV to get reception, well, I’ll just cancel my DISH subscription and be done with it. I can always rent movies and shows and watch some shows over the Internet. TV is like cigarettes… a habit that is hard to break but can be done.
Happy New Year.
A habit I’m not willing to break fortunately they have come come some sort of deal and the channels will remain on. But I’m sure there would be an overall benefit from not having TV, we would kick other countries asses when it come to school performance as Americans would have nothing else to do but study.
Oh, and Happy New Year everyone!
I hear you, Sensico. I am now addicted to certain shows on TV and I feel captive to them. I’m also addicted to these gosh darn blogs
Tell me about it, I have too many blogger friends I always have to visit their damn blog everyday and by blogger friends that includes everyone on my blogroll and some other blogs. I use the wordpress blog surfer a lot…kind of makes it easier. But, then I also have to visit Huffington Post, Politico, Science Daily, and check my e-mail a lot. I’m officially a dork.
I read that story and thought OMG.
But they made a last minute deal. So all is saved. 
Happy New Year to you, family, and friends!
Happy New Year