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In Reply to: Those movies channels... they crawl out of woodwork... posted by Victor Khomenko on December 19, 2002 at 08:16:34:
I used to love that channel as they played older movies - some of which are classics - without interruption. Now, watching a movie on AMC is just like trying to watch one on TNN or NBC: 7 minutes of film to every 5 minutes of commercials! Too damned much advertising! Way too many repeats! And now they are showing programs which belong on E! or Entertainment Tonight. I'm talking about the PEOPLE magazine type shows of celebrity gossip and etc. Ye Gads! IS there no escape from the dreck?Yes, there is. Since there is no longer any decent choices on cable TV AND since the Sci-Fi Channel has also had a recent disasterous decline in quality AND since The Sopranos and Six Feet Under and Sex In The City are not worth $60 a month, I will be cancelling my cable subscription and installing a rooftop antenna. Seems I watch the local channels most of the time, anyway.
AND the cable company is raising rates AGAIN! It might be worth it if service would start improving but when weather is bad - which is frequent here in Oregon - picture quality goes down from the mediocre standard they try to maintain. I get ghosting and crosstalk and other inexcusable things. They say it's my wiring but I have replaced that with the best I could get AND my wiring starts at their box, which is at the side of my house!
I think if a large number of us would dump our cable and our satellite systems AND give the companies our true reasons, we might see some improvements in service. Remember when cable was one good way to escape from (at least some) excessive television advertising? Well, we are now swamped with the damned things. They even show commercials in movie theaters! And telemarketers are now calling cell phones!
Is there no escape?
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Unfortunately, The Studies, conducted by the Tv Networks, allegedly show, that viewers, especially the young males who are watching The Tube, actually don't mind the commercial advertising breaks, so...And face it, sometimes it's the commercial announcements that are more entertaining.
As for AMC, their problem is that they are currently obsessed with brand identification now, and the films just happen to fill the time between the promo commercials. It's possible that Cablevision will be putting AMC "on the selling block" to continue with their consolidation of assets, to defray their mounting debt problem. Can't wait !!!
chronic mismanagement or stubbornly ignoring the audience with the $.I left because I no longer liked the programming and refuse to be drowned in commercials. What was a premier network is becoming more and more trashy. Sometimes it's like watching E!, which is anything but entertaining - except when Brooke Burke is onscreen.
And E! is hopeless. Any network which builds its schedule around Anna Nicole and Howard Stern can't be long for this world.
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