My vote goes for TNN, or "The New TNN". I guess the guys there dont realize that The New TNN sucks donkey butt. 6 hours of Star Trek a day is a bit much (I dont understand why Paramount allowed that...God knows that has hurt the TNG season box sets sales).
TNN used to carry a lot of sports that no other networks would pick up. ASA, Arena Football, Professional Bull Riding, and WORLD OF OUTLAWS. Now all that remains is ASA and a little PBR. Mullin Production Group, which produces ASA races for TNN, hires local people to be their RF crew for broadcasts. I worked with them at a race in South Boston...a race that was tape delayed because Saturday nights at 10 is when WWF Excess airs. This shows a large amount of idiocy...taped wrestling over live motorsports.
The stupidest thing is the loss of the World of Outlaws. That was the SINGLE GREATEST thing that TNN ever broadcast (if youve never watched an Outlaws race, then you should).
Sorry, I wanted to vent on this. But if anyone has a suggestion of a network that is worse than TNN, lets here it.

I nominate Mtv. So many videos in their vaults and yet they never get aired. What a waste...

You ain't kidding....I was flipping around a few nights ago and hit MTV and was shocked to actually see a music video, for a second I thought I was on VH1.

I have to agree with you on this one. Instead of videos you get 10 re-run cycles of the weekly "reality" show. pure crap on a music television station if you ask me.change the M already since they aren't playing music anymore.

Yup.

Things have gotten so bad that its affected M2 as well!

MTV is so poor....they don't even pretend to be a music channel anymore. If you check out their website and look at their rotation, you'll see exactly what's going on. It's simply a power radio station that is pushing the marketed acts.

Brainwashing 14 year old girls, just like the pop radio stations. MTV2 is not bad....they will have stretches of really, really great videos from a variety of styles and eras, but they keep them grouped really well so that you can watch for a stretch instead of three minutes at a time.

Muchmusic is pretty good as well. They have the balls to play many of the bands that will never see the light of day on MTV, and the VJs are actually informative and (gasp) occasionally entertaining. Their band interviews and guest appearances are great as well.

Yeah, MTV is pretty bad too. I heard once that the reason they blur out any sponsor logos in their television shows is because they dont want to influence teenagers. I find this odd...I mean, they do show commercials, and they have programming which regularly talks about drinking, drugs, and sex. The real reason is that MTV doesnt want to give out any free advertising...but they hide with this fake policy of "protecting our children".

I agree that MTV and TNN sucks-but I think that ESPNNews is the biggest waste of air space.The same half-an hour show over and over again.

What's with that channel that always seems to have on "America's Funniest Animal Videos"?

Animal Planet?

TNN sucks for sure, but I can say that I actually watch it. The same could not be said when it was The Nashville Network.

Animal Planet rules! Ive seen every 'funniest aniaml' episode atleast 10 times each.... They do play it about 4 hours a day...

MTV by far. While TNN is annoying, squishes their shows, and airs the same episodes over and over, at least they do air some good programming. MTV on the other hand is one huge manipulative lie, and their best show -- Tough Enough -- doesn't have the first thing to do with music.

das

not even when they had dukes of hazzard reruns
I hate that TNN squishes ST TNG with that black bar on the bottom, but I do watch it most of the time when it is on
if I wasn't a big ST fan I would never watch that station though unless they had a good movie or something on

I must agree with the MTV choice. As an initial viewer of MTV it has certainly changed. Because of the earlier MTV people my age became more atuned to music, there was more of a chance that we would try something new. This would turn into more sales of lp's and concert tickets.

As for TNN, I preferred the old format; but just.

Ahh yes MTV in the 80's. While i was young at the time i do remember some MTV....i remember it being mostly music with few shows.

Talk about a 180.

Any network that thinks I'm too stupid to know what channel I'm watching so they put a bigass multi-colored station logo in the effen' corner of the show I'm trying to watch

I'm hard pressed to think of a channel that doesn't put the network logo in the bottom corner of the screen anymore. I've never liked the idea of that.

Chris

Well, they USED to have good programming. Now they are no different than any other network that shows reruns of old shows all day.
When they were The Nashville Network, I didnt watch anything of the "Nashville" aspect...just the sports...which was really good stuff. I remember at one point they had Winston Cup coverage that challenged that of ESPN (of course that was a long time ago). They did some great things though...they brought ASA and the Busch Series and World of Outlaws into the light by picking up a heavy load of their races...why they felt like reruns of Star Trek and Baywatch would draw a bigger audience is beyond me.

I respectfully disagree. There are countless channels that re-air older programming, but few if any match the level of quality of TNN. God, I cannot believe I'm about to defend this channel, but TNG, The A-Team, Mad TV, Diff'rent Strokes, Three's Company, and Miami Vice are all great shows that deserve to be shown on some channel. Hell, I'd rather watch some of those shows in re-runs more than most of the current original programming. And don't forget they have the highest rated cable show in history (briefly overtaken by The Osbournes). I understand that you personally may have enjoyed some of the Nashville programming, but to be fair, they changed the name of their channel to coincide with reaching a national audience, and the quality of the shows they acquired with that change is much higher than that of their more regional programming (my opinion). They may no longer televise some programs that interested you, but I don't think that makes them a bad cable network. They're very true to their audience and what they claim to be. Other channels, such as MTV and that load of crap that claims to be a Sci-Fi channel, offend on a much larger scale than simply no longer being interested in Nashville-style programming.

das

Actually, he said, "bigass multi-colored station logo." Most channels have an embossed logo, with only the lines hilighted. Unless you are looking for it, you don't even notice em on most networks... Now there are SOME networks that put huge logos, and some even dedicate the entire bottom of the screen to the logo! <cough>

Golf channel
CMT
Paxx
TBC
Soap

Style Network & Golf Channel = wastes of space

There are so many crap channels out there it is amazing. Golf Channel, that horse racing channel, all the shopping channels, 15 Discovery channels, on and on and on. Dish Network even has several channels that are from colleges. It is nothing, but professors standing in front of a class teaching. Who wants to watch that?

Cat

While its not the worst network, the one that gets the quickest fall from glory would have to be USA. They used to have a lot of good shows and original series (La Femme Nikita, Duckman, WWF, etc). Now they just have total crap. I can't even recall watching it in the last year or so. It used to be a vital station that I needed to have - now I could care less about it.