show g4 the door

October 17, 2006 under G4, TechTV, UndoTV

Is G4 headed for that big Recycle Bin in the sky? When news of the shakeup over at Comcast broke, the Web lit up with speculation that G4 was on its last legs. G4 refuted the claims that it’s going the way of the dodo, but they don’t sound all that confident:

In short: Your G4TV experience will remain the same… actually, we think it will only get better because of this…In short: Your G4TV experience will remain the same… actually, we think it will only get better because of this…

They think it will only get better? Those are some mighty high hopes that they have there.

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It was a sad day when TechTV was swallowed up by G4. The Screensavers degenerated into a wank fest for 16 year-old guys when it morphed into Attack of the Show. Other great shows on TechTV disappeared, too. Comcast, in their misguided wisdom likely derived from weak focus groups and (probably) based on the suggestion of one of the exec’s teen-aged sons, pulled all the wonderful tech content and replaced it with shows aimed at geeky young men who’s bedrooms are adorned with Evanescence posters, Star Wars figurines and have probably never kissed a girl. G4TechTV Canada was mildly better, since we had Call For Help and weren’t subjected to Star Trek and Man Show reruns, but it was still a shadow of its former self. I remember when TechTV Canada aired MSDN webcasts not too long ago! Those days are gone [sigh]…

Then TWiT and DL.tv appeared, and a slew of great content on the iTunes Podcast Directory began to show up. Hell, even tech media stalwart CNet has launched a few IPTV shows. This was welcome, since traditional TV (and movies) has become really boring and repetitive to me. So it’s nice to see that Chris Pirillo and Leo Laporte have rounded up the ol’ TechTV troops and will be launching UndoTV soon. It looks like it will bring back some of the TechTV personalities as well as some new ones. It also appears that there’ll be some Digg-meets-Flickr-meets-YouTube functionality as well. I’ll definitely stay tuned.

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