There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.

Discovery is full of shows all about people looking for things but not discovering them.

No truth on truth social

Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.

PBS is the only television worth a damn. Incidentally, it is replete with history, documentaries, non-editorial news, music, and science.

There's no foxes on Fox News either.

Reminds of an observation my dad made once about how neighborhoods are named after what had to cleared away to build there. Oakwoods. Rolling hills. Pleasent view. Etc etc

History channel has Forged in Fire where, for about 30 seconds per episode, they give a quick lesson about the historic weapon the contestants will make.

But yeah, TV is bullshit. Fuck commercials.

Don't forget Animal Planet, which hosts shows about tree houses and mermaids now.

Cable is dying and they will do whatever it takes to keep it afloat until the last second

There used to be. Turns out you can make more money with reality TV.

Because of capitalism. Because all content must drive quarterly profit ever-higher.

Meanwhile, public broadcasting (PBS) is still putting out great content for families regardless of profitability.

Enshittification time

Sometimes I can get the weather forecast on The Weather Channel.

advertising is the most corrosive poison

But there are letters on ABC.

Checkmate, atheists.

I was 100% watching MTV the other day and they legitimately played some music

Thought I was hallucinating

All those examples (except MTV) is David Zaslav hard at work. So glad he's in charge of WB now!

All of those channels were idealistic and naive. The reality of capitalism destroyed them.

Learning on The Learning Channel (TLC)

Don't even get me started about the Body Shop.

They use to say television rots the brain, but now it's clear that television just rots.

Nickelodeon wasn't actually a movie theater that cost a nickel per show.

Fox isn't owned or operated by foxes.

ABC is not gum that has already been chewed.

Thank God for Cartoon Network.

There used to be

Someone should make a channel called boredom.

There is no socialism on social media

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

Ah, but is there Sy in Syfy?

No. No there isn’t.

There is no Mötorhead on Lemmy

And Beyond 2000 stopped airing in 1999

I remember when The Learning Channel had learning on it. Now watching it actively depletes your intellect.

Its all simple minded commercial fodder. Geared to hold the attention of the slow witted emotion driven masses long enough to throw ads down their psychological throats

There's little to no British content on BBC America.

Travel channel and Food network switch content sometimes

And there are no Indians in Indiana.

To the tune of Home Again In Indiana:

There are no Indians, in In-diana Most were removed, through treaties And the Del-a-ware, had no care went to Miss-ou-ri, with ease The Shaw-nee screwed, the Mi-am-i With the treaty, of, Fort Wayne William Hen-ry Harr-i-son versus Te-cumseh The In-dian's loss, became, whitey's gain Now there are no Indians in In-diana