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?)

From: [identity profile] erica-roo.livejournal.com


Now I know they switched one to CW because of the merger... and that one made me happy... finally Americas Next Top Model...woohoo... sorry...

I doubt that they would be stupid enough to take away Fox. I mean, how stupid would that be? Surely it's wrong..... When will that one take place? It was still Fox tonight.

From: [identity profile] sigma7.livejournal.com


According to Z2I, already. And it's obviously still Fox, so maybe it won't happen. But...well, it wouldn't be unprecedented. (Right now Z2I and the TVPC say it should be The Mark Mangino Show on channel 5 and it's apparently Cheaters, which while amusing is apparently incorrect.)
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