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networks that did not go downhill or change significantly over the years




I'm stumped. It is natural for a channel to adapt and improve, but too many (MTV, SciFi, RBS, etc.) have completely modified and abandoned their original core adjective and audience. Which networks have not?

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TCM (Turner Classic Movies)

Well, at least it isn't as bad as could be.


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hmmm That's a toughie all right.

Maybe PBS - still rolling out those telethons - but they still carry some of their Public programming in between pledge drives.

Maybe HGTV - as in "Home and Garden Televison" - as of now, they didn't get nearly as bad as TLC - as in "The Learning Channel?" - but HGTV still caters to outrageous overpriced house searches and home improvement rennovation projects.

Maybe those home shopping networks - like QVC, ShopNBC, etc. etc. They're pretty much as annoying as ever - so pushing them down the hill might actually help to subtract from some of their useless merchandising - but act quickly because you have only 90 seconds left before the bargain runs out, right?

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TCM is definitely a good pick-airing older movies of a and b grade and even rare gems as well.Their TCM Underground is what the USA network used to be like when they had UP ALL NIGHT except without commersials and wisecracking hosts but unedited unlike the UP ALL NIGHT films.

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LOGO is still the same. At least from what I have seen.
I've never been a avid viewer, but I've watched a few things on it over the years, but it still seems to show the same type of programming it did when it started, with the possible questionable addition of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
I never watched it but I understand there was a lesbian on the show in the middle/later years so there's that connection but it does seem out of place to me.

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Probably PBS because it's still showing educational shows even though some of the older shows (Bill Nye the Science Guy, Carmen Sandiego, Lamb Chop) are gone.

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While TCM has yet to go down significantly, it is starting to trouble me a bit: they're becoming alarmingly repetitive in their programming ("Sweet Smell of Success" FOUR times in just over a month?!). Not to mention their "TCM This Month" show, which is basically a 30-minute infomercial for the network.


Yeah, they're dead, they're--all messed up.

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In my opinion Comedy Central has been pretty consistent. They've never once steered away from their original objective.

I renamed my IPOd The Titanic, so whenever it charges it says the Titanic is syncing.

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The Science Channel?

So far, anyway. Except for when they play 18 hours straight of "How it's Made".

I can get through an episode or two of that, but it gets old *very* quickly.


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Would AMC count. It use to be a western channel and they revamped started with breaking bad. Most channels that do become watered down while that channel really soared.

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