G4 (2002-2013)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/09/07/a-post-mortem-for-g4-and-what-a-true-geek-channel-would-look-like/
Should have happened about 8 years ago once Comcast killed the Original G4 and Tech TV but it's all over now.
You mean the Cops network is dead? Oh shucks.
shareI wonder if AOTS and/or X-Play will get picked up by another network...
shareI've always thought/hoped that AOTS and X-Play would merge and go over to spike. That should provide enough content for 5 days. I've always wondered if the show would be better off being taped then being shown live.
shareI do hope the shows continue. Maybe Chris Hardwick has some pull and can keep all the people and bring them over to his Nerdist show.
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EX G4 • on Jan 5, 2012 2:09 pm
Tiles and David Angehrn, the guy he hired to run the marketing department at G4, don’t know how to market anything. They bring new meaning to the term CLUELESS. Both nightmares to work with and are highly skilled at TWO things: driving away any real talent in the G4 marketing department and alienating the agencies they hire to do much of the work. How do you know things are bad? Complete turnover of the marketing staff (five defections) in less than a year in a down economy plus agencies deliberately pricing themselves out of the bidding process so they can avoid working with G4 while not burning bridges with the other Comcast Networks.
G4 network teases a comeback in 2021
https://www.polygon.com/2020/7/24/21337355/sdcc-2020-g4-tv-return-teaser-video
G4, the defunct 2002-13 cable network dedicated to tech, gaming and entertainment programming, teased amid Comic-Con@Home that it's returning in 2021, tweeting the tagline "We never stopped playing" on its long-dormant Twitter account. The official Twitter accounts for Attack of the Show! and X-Play, G4’s best-known shows, also posted the same teaser. Olivia Munn, the biggest star to emerge out of G4 as co-host of Attack of the Show!, retweeted the teaser. And former G4 stars Blair Herter and Adam Sessler also retweeted the video, with Sessler commenting: "Well, this is curious turn of events." "The teaser contains few details on the way in which the TV network and/or its signature programming would return," says Susana Polo. "In the one-minute video, a camera pans through a dark warehouse until it comes upon a game of Pong being played on a CRT television. The TV’s screen glitches and displays the words “incoming transmission,” before the camera flies through a very 2009-era animation of zooming through internet wires that eventually resolves to the G4 logo. The year 2021 appears on the screen, followed by the aforementioned tagline." In 2013, G4 was rebranded as Esquire Network, which was shut down in 2017.
I enjoyed AotS quite a bit up until Kevin started political stumping. Politicize everything, politicize everything.
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