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So I watch a little TV -- football, Mythbusters, some Futurama repeats, but nothing too religiously. Except House, for which I will punch out a whole busful of nuns to get to see on time.
Turns out our local monopolistic cable provider, Cox (insert juvenile joke here) Communications, has decided to shake up the lineup (or did they? see bottom), replacing two stations (including Fox affiliate KTMJ) with new stations KSCW (or K-Scow) and KMTW (or K-Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, as in how long until the masses are engulfed in fury), which are The CW and (buh) MyNetworkTV affiliates, respectively.
Don't pretend you've heard of "MyNetworkTV" before, either. I hadn't, and even after reading the Wiki page I'm still partially convinced this is a bad practical joke. If my TV computer hadn't been insisting House wasn't coming on this week, I'd not have noticed at all.
Interestingly, Googling for any kind of announcement or notification or clarification about this switch with regard to Cox is proving futile. It's almost as if they didn't want to advertise it.
The question is not whether or not someone should pay for this. It's who should, and how bad. I'm thinking homebrew dentistry, and I'll bring the corkscrew and the ballpeen hammer.
(Edit: Huh, interesting. Zap2It, which drives Cox's own listings, has the new KMTW station, but TVGuide.com insists FOX is sticking around. Am I an optimist or a realist here?)
Turns out our local monopolistic cable provider, Cox (insert juvenile joke here) Communications, has decided to shake up the lineup (or did they? see bottom), replacing two stations (including Fox affiliate KTMJ) with new stations KSCW (or K-Scow) and KMTW (or K-Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, as in how long until the masses are engulfed in fury), which are The CW and (buh) MyNetworkTV affiliates, respectively.
Don't pretend you've heard of "MyNetworkTV" before, either. I hadn't, and even after reading the Wiki page I'm still partially convinced this is a bad practical joke. If my TV computer hadn't been insisting House wasn't coming on this week, I'd not have noticed at all.
Interestingly, Googling for any kind of announcement or notification or clarification about this switch with regard to Cox is proving futile. It's almost as if they didn't want to advertise it.
The question is not whether or not someone should pay for this. It's who should, and how bad. I'm thinking homebrew dentistry, and I'll bring the corkscrew and the ballpeen hammer.
(Edit: Huh, interesting. Zap2It, which drives Cox's own listings, has the new KMTW station, but TVGuide.com insists FOX is sticking around. Am I an optimist or a realist here?)
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As for missing House? There's always BitTorrent. I've used it for the finale of Six Feet Under, a few episodes of ER, this season's premieres of The Amazing Race and Survivor (both of which I finally got to see). I've got a decent computer setup here at home, so while it isn't the bestest, it'll do. And it's niiiiiiice to watch it without commercials. The suckage, as always, is the tendency to GET SPOILERED BY OTHER PEOPLE even when you're trying to avoid it, as it usually takes at least a day for popular stuff like House and TAR to start appearing.
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I'm finding this could be a potential cable deal-breaker; if I have to be bothered to download one show, it'd be just as easy to grab all the shows and kick the cable habit completely. And move the TVPC on campus, which'd be sweet. For this price, I should get my hour-long chunk of Hugh Laurie delivered into the living room and not have to hunt it out myself.