Am I the only one that notices that when I check the TV listings the same channels keep showing the same shows over and over again. I realize that with 500 channels out there it would be very expensive to provide new programing all the time.
The king and pioneer of redundant programing has to be WGN. They have for the most part been showing the same programs at the same times for years. It gets like a cult watching thing.
But the other networks do as well. It is like certain channels have about ten or twelve shows that they just keep showing again and again. I guess this is a downside of having too many specialty channels. Consumers are paying a great deal of money to watch what we in the old over the air days call reruns. I know my parents have the FIOS deal with all these channels. I went a year without watching this and the first time I turned on the Military History Channel it was playing the same show I seen a year ago. With the same advertisements. This is also true of the standard cable package that I have. Over and over.
I used to really like the SyFy channel. They used to play well, science fiction shows. A lot of the older ones from the past and some newer ones. Now they are playing the stupid reality shows that I can only think are dirt cheap to produce and rerunning them as well. History Channel used to have history. Again all these cheap to produced reran reality shows.
Even my new favorite the over the air has repeats. But as that is not as painful as you are not paying for them except for the cost of a antennae. The main networks do have the new shows. Maybe I will start watching them as I have not for years and get some new favorites.
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