Killer Cars: How many "geeks" (at least those who would happily self-identify as such) watched G4 even when it arguably didn't suck? While I do play video games and do other geeky things, I'm not terribly nerdy about techy stuff in general, and even I thought what I saw on stuff like "Attack of the Show" to be rather low-brow in terms of "geekness".

Shows like that would have their humorous moments, but all in all I don't think its content would go over the head of anyone under 30, regardless of their hobbies and interests. Perhaps it's just because of the internet age, something that 10-15 years ago would be considered a "geek" hobby is just pervasive now across a more base demographic.

Stay awhile and listen...

10-15 years ago, it wasn't G4. It was TechTV, and it was actually almost entirely geek stuff. Shows about computers and technology and new things and computer animation when it was still a new medium. In high school I had it on almost all the time.

There hasn't been any television for us like that in a long time. Thankfully, you can find enough solid online video series by dedicated people that there's worthwhile entertainment, just not on cable. 

G4 hasn't been a tech channel for about a decade. It's been a channel that occasionally talks about technology in between Maximish crap. It was Spike with a video game show.

TheChadnt: bbfreak: [www.vgcats.com image 692x754]

It looks like he's playing FTL on the laptop (3rd panel) and things are not going well.

Hah, I didn't notice that before. Yes it does.

Mega Steve: Klippoklondike: They should bring back Kate Botello

I remember when it was still ZDTV, and their mascot was Tilda. Kate Botello did the voice, which made her even more awesome. Apparently, all images of Tilda have been wiped from the web, as I can't find any.

Anyway, I liked Kate. She was cute, funny, and smart.

Jedekai: 2005 G4 was badass.

The X-Play review for a terrible Euro game called "Singles: Flirt Up Your Life" (by Morgan Webb - who is awesome) still makes me laugh.

Zero Punctuation is the new X-Play, but they don't have Drunk Link ("The girl you'll always want is just out of reach until you get a hookshot... rrr... something.") or Unemployed Ninja.

They lost Guy In A Bear Suit when they moved to LA.

May all media execs get ass cancer for this. ALL of them. Even the ones I like.

I'm sure there is a way an innovative media company could run several niche channels with quality programming, keeping audiences engaged across several platforms beyond the cable channel. Costs would have to be kept low and other channels from the bigger companies would try and swoop in, but it could be done.

Sadly, the second they get bought by some hedge fund or bigger media company and be turned into the same flavorless mix of reruns and reality shows tangentially related to the original purpose.

DerpHerder: Mentalpatient87: I wanted to like the shows on G4, but I couldn't get past the grating, horrible personalities they had hosting those shows. It is insane how annoying Adam Sessler and the Attack of the Show nerds were..

You don't like Adam Sessler? I always enjoyed him all the way back when X-Play was known as extended play. He made some great skits and was a harsh critics of the games he reviewed. To each his own I guess.

The combination of G4 and Tech TV took a network for people with some level of intelligence (TechTV/ZDTV) and bastardized it with the farked up lowlife channel designed for people who were flipping the channel while Spike had commercials on (G4). Anyone whoever told me they liked G4 was someone who had no real interest in technology. Attack of the Show just became a way for the idiot male hosts to sexually harass the female hosts. AKA douche bag central.

Adam also acted like that weird buddy who always knew what were the best games to buy. Sure he was goofy but He has never led me wrong on his reviews.

Mega Steve: Klippoklondike: They should bring back Kate Botello

I remember when it was still ZDTV, and their mascot was Tilda. Kate Botello did the voice, which made her even more awesome. Apparently, all images of Tilda have been wiped from the web, as I can't find any.

Anyway, I liked Kate. She was cute, funny, and smart.

Mega Steve, do a GIS for "zdtv+tilde". I think the spelling threw you off.

I miss Anna David....

Mentalpatient87: I wanted to like the shows on G4, but I couldn't get past the grating, horrible personalities they had hosting those shows. It is insane how annoying Adam Sessler and the Attack of the Show nerds were..

Yeppers.

I wanted to watch AOTS and the other games shows, because I need my fix since I had to get rid of my Xbox to study for the bar; but could not tolerate the hosts. It was like listening to fingernails on chalkboards while chewing broken glass.

TechTV was a geat assortment of niche programming, with The Screen Savers probably being my favorite show there; I watched it regularly until it was decided that what tech geeks and propellerheads really wanted to watch was drift racing. That was the beginning of the end.

HempHead: I miss Anna David....

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"I'd hit that like the cinder blocks tied to her ankles would hit the water when I throw her in the pool for committing adultery after I marry her!"

/your culturally insensitive post for the day

Skyfrog: Mega Steve: Klippoklondike: They should bring back Kate Botello

I remember when it was still ZDTV, and their mascot was Tilda. Kate Botello did the voice, which made her even more awesome. Apparently, all images of Tilda have been wiped from the web, as I can't find any.

Anyway, I liked Kate. She was cute, funny, and smart.

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Ed Willy: I'm sure there is a way an innovative media company could run several niche channels with quality programming, keeping audiences engaged across several platforms beyond the cable channel. Costs would have to be kept low and other channels from the bigger companies would try and swoop in, but it could be done.

Sadly, the second they get bought by some hedge fund or bigger media company and be turned into the same flavorless mix of reruns and reality shows tangentially related to the original purpose.

its becoming painful to watch Food Network eat itself. Restaurant Impossible is more about the interior renovations than food (thanks to guest HGTV designers), and the new "reality" shows are over-the-top staged nonsense.

Discovery Communications has started running nature programming on Velocity. I don't really understand.

Allansfirebird: I wish I could say I was surprised to see that Bonnie Hammer is one of the architects for this disaster. Did a nerd or a geek kill her dog once in a freak science experiment accident? Is that why she's so determined to wipe any genre programming off of the airwaves?

Back in high school, even the geeks turned her down for dates. She never forgot the pain and humiliation of being turned down by guys whose only sexual experience consisted of watching scrambled porn on The Playboy Channel and spanking it to an old, ratty Penthouse issue they found in the woods

nickp91: X-Play was the only good thing about G4

...and Code Monkeys. Adult Swim should have picked it up instead wasting their money on the horribly unfunny Tim & Eric.

dumbobruni: Ed Willy: I'm sure there is a way an innovative media company could run several niche channels with quality programming, keeping audiences engaged across several platforms beyond the cable channel. Costs would have to be kept low and other channels from the bigger companies would try and swoop in, but it could be done.

Sadly, the second they get bought by some hedge fund or bigger media company and be turned into the same flavorless mix of reruns and reality shows tangentially related to the original purpose.

its becoming painful to watch Food Network eat itself. Restaurant Impossible is more about the interior renovations than food (thanks to guest HGTV designers), and the new "reality" shows are over-the-top staged nonsense.

Discovery Communications has started running nature programming on Velocity. I don't really understand.

shiat, couldn't they shove American Chopper there and return nature to DIscovery?

Bloody William: 10-15 years ago, it wasn't G4. It was TechTV, and it was actually almost entirely geek stuff.

Sorry, I should have clarified; I knew of TechTV, and how it was more "geeky" in terms of content and programming.

My rambling question/post was more of an attempt to pose "how may 'geeks' even hung around when it transformed into G4?" because my assumption is most would have left almost immediately. There's nothing inherently "geek" about "check out this new video game", which it seemed the stuff on G4 mostly talked about (the few times I even watched it).

The sad thing is History channel and Discovery are going the same way with all this reality crap. You've got to watch history 2 to even see modern marvels.

Time to cancel cable and go completely to netflix and the web.

See what you've done all you stupid farkers whining about "Blah, blah TechTV, blah blah!" Now you have The Esquire Channel and is all your fault!

/no idea what I'm saying

Killer Cars: Bloody William: 10-15 years ago, it wasn't G4. It was TechTV, and it was actually almost entirely geek stuff.

Sorry, I should have clarified; I knew of TechTV, and how it was more "geeky" in terms of content and programming.

My rambling question/post was more of an attempt to pose "how may 'geeks' even hung around when it transformed into G4?" because my assumption is most would have left almost immediately. There's nothing inherently "geek" about "check out this new video game", which it seemed the stuff on G4 mostly talked about (the few times I even watched it).

Actually quite a few stuck around for the first couple of months during the merger and once it was finalized. Many like me stuck thru it to see if G4 actually had any worthwhile content ("Icons" and "The Electric Playground" were better that most of their in-studio shows); and to see how much of a train wreck G4 was going to make of their "promise" to give equal weight in programming to the existing TechTV shows. I watched fairly regularly until the official last episode of The Screen Savers, and then caught up with X-Play now and again until I decided to cancel my TV service the next year.

Do people not the concept of niche marketing anymore?

LeafyGreens: Do people not the concept of niche marketing anymore?

I don't they do.

not a single frack was given by this nerd . the network has been dead to me since they started showing shoe segment on attack of the show.

Is this the channel that has that show about "crazy wild sex" that ends up being extremely boring and judgmental? That had a porn star hosting it who could put insomniacs to sleep?

No, I don't mean HBO's real sex, that's just lots of really gross people that you'd rather not associate with sex, although it is also boring.

Cinematech and Nocturnal Emissions were great shows to watch when you were stoned out of your f'ing gourd.
Requiescat in pace...

nickp91: X-Play was the only good thing about G4

And it was one of the few shows to make the cut from the Tech TV "merger".

FatalDischarge: The Screen Savers is how I found out about Fark. Damn you, Screen Savers!!!

This

I'll miss AOTS and XPlay. Well and I asume they will not cover E3 like G4 did and I'll not like that at all. The last years was friggin great.

Mentalpatient87: I wanted to like the shows on G4, but I couldn't get past the grating, horrible personalities they had hosting those shows. It is insane how annoying Adam Sessler and the Attack of the Show nerds were..

I liked Sessler. X-Play itself was always enjoyable. G4 had good online content too. Sadly, AOTS was always hit and miss and the 4 hour Cheaters marathons didn't do anything to keep me watching.

I can't think of another channel that had so much going for it and was so mismanaged.

I liked AotS... But whatever.

FuryOfFirestorm: nickp91: X-Play was the only good thing about G4

...and Code Monkeys. Adult Swim should have picked it up instead wasting their money on the horribly unfunny Tim & Eric.

Holy shiat, someone besides me is a fan of code monkeys?!

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It looks like he's playing FTL on the laptop (3rd panel) and things are not going well.

Hah, I didn't notice that before. Yes it does.

He's probably trying to play that stupid Shadow Cruiser that has a cloak and no shields.

The description for Esquire TV makes it sound like nothing but a slightly less gay version of Bravo.

Sounds like a mistake for me.

At this point in time the idea of going for the "metrosexual" dollar is well past. They missed that train...it's arrived at the destination, de-boarded, been cleaned from top to bottom and moved on.

G4TV was just sort of something you had to tolerate if you wanted to find out something. I would check it out less for the personalities and more for the coverage that no one else was really doing. You didn't really get to like it....you just kind of accepted it because no one else was doing it.

I might have been a fan of Attack Of The Show had I not wanted to see the host hung up by his thumbs. The premise was something I could have been into but that guy just annoyed the crap out of me.

Sessler and Webb were entertaining but it always seemed like the really cool bits were fer and far between. The writing was geared toward longer blocks of time and when they finally got it all up to speed it ended up being some of the longest blocks of commercials I can remember.

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: Remember that time Cat Schwartz accidentally showed her tits to the internet?

/nsfw, duh

Wow. Now, if we can just get Candace Bailey to do that before AOTS disappears, we'll have a full set. Pretty much every other chick that has hosted that show has whipped 'em out at some point. Bailey already took a stop closer by letting that guy from Doctor Who grab a feel on the show.

dumbobruni: Ed Willy: I'm sure there is a way an innovative media company could run several niche channels with quality programming, keeping audiences engaged across several platforms beyond the cable channel. Costs would have to be kept low and other channels from the bigger companies would try and swoop in, but it could be done.

Sadly, the second they get bought by some hedge fund or bigger media company and be turned into the same flavorless mix of reruns and reality shows tangentially related to the original purpose.

its becoming painful to watch Food Network eat itself. Restaurant Impossible is more about the interior renovations than food (thanks to guest HGTV designers), and the new "reality" shows are over-the-top staged nonsense.

Discovery Communications has started running nature programming on Velocity. I don't really understand.

Its also the constant blocks of the same shows that hurts. You check out Food Network in the afternoon and its just Restaurant Impossible, Iron Chef and Diners, Driveins and Dives over and over. Cooking Channel has a much better selection and variety....unless they get Good Eats happy.

eddievercetti: So a channel made for geeks, killed almost all geek programming, stop caring about their core audience, lost ratings, got brought by douches and now the channel will be made for douches.

we already have syfy, and MTV

/people still watch TV??

Metrosexual is a thing still?

soj4life: Metrosexual is a thing still?

No.