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Finding the Long Tail of Television

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-for-everyone dept.

prostoalex writes "The New York Times runs the story on the long tail of television, where the channels that would not be hits on the mainstream media are migrating to the Internet and finding interested audiences there. The article mentions Sail.tv - TV programming for those into sailing and yachting, TrioTV - the cornucopia of pop culture and music, BrilliantButCancelled will rerun the reruns of old TV shows, and OutZone will feature programming pertaining to gays and lesbians."

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  1. Brilliant But Cancelled by From+A+Far+Away+Land · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to have them show Vengence Unlimited, and Brimstone. It's not often that Fox creates something worth watching, but Brimstone certainly deserved more than the 1 season it was granted in 1998.

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    Oh You POS
  2. Old proverb by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 5, Funny

    One must jump the shark to find the length of its tail.

    Eric
    My AdSense blog

  3. Re:Finding the Long Tail? That's easy! by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are really two possible meanings for "television is worse now." One is that there used to be more shows on worth watching. The other is that shows were "better".

    The third possible meaning is that all the really awful programming from that era, and there was a LOT, either was never recorded or nobody bothers to take it out of the vault. Hindsight is always 20/20, and it's easy to hearken back to the 'good old times' while forgetting that 'the good old times' the way we remember it consists of the rare examples of good television programming back then that were worth saving.