Time to go all V on Cox's collective ass

[sigma7]

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?)

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Taking away the number 4 network doesn't make any sense to me.

On the other hand, I had heard about "MyNetworkTV", but then I'm an information sponge. While I'm not watching it, it strikes me as an interesting experiment for the former "sixth network" stations (and ones at that level; in San Francisco, it's ended up on Channel 4* rather than the former WB station that lost out to the former UPN station in getting CW affiliation) to do telenovellas with heavy plot and fixed endings. Dunno if it'll succeed due to the low budget nature of the shows and low level of the stations, but it's at least something different (for the gringo audience at least).

*Channel 4 used to be a very powerful San Francisco NBC affiliate. They rather stupidly got into a battle with NBC over show payments, and NBC switched to San Jose's Channel 11. Let's just say that Channel 4 runs a lot of infomercials these days.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Okay, aside from the fact that you live in a cultural mecca, I'm not surprised you've heard of MyNetworkTV; information sponge, cultural and technological data repository...I see you as an exception to rules on human omniscience or lack thereof.

That said, I do vaguely recall info about the telenovellas debuting on IMDB, and that they had ratings around, er, 1, even if I thought they were on some sort of cable network and not this sixth (gah) network-network.

And how bad do you have to suck as a station to get turned down for being a CW station? That simply has got to hurt.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I heard about My Network months ago, through a TV-junkie friend. And I noticed WIBW start flogging it in ads a few weeks ago. And I anticipate starting to care somewhere around the fifth of never. :)