View Poll Results: Most useless network to you...
ABC
6
7.69%
CBS
9
11.54%
Fox
3
3.85%
NBC
6
7.69%
UPN
36
46.15%
WB
18
23.08%
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Most Useless Broadcast Network?
10-07-02, 11:30 AM
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Most Useless Broadcast Network?
I don't watch one single Fox program - complete waste of a channel.
CBS (Survivor), UPN (Smackdown (sometimes)), and WB (D's Creek) each get at least one show out of me. ABC gets 2 (Drew & Whose Line) as does NBC (Friends & SNL).
I find myself watching cable more & more...
CBS (Survivor), UPN (Smackdown (sometimes)), and WB (D's Creek) each get at least one show out of me. ABC gets 2 (Drew & Whose Line) as does NBC (Friends & SNL).
I find myself watching cable more & more...
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10-07-02, 11:51 AM
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Without a doubt, it's CBS... but they do have the NFL rights, so I give them some credit. Fox has all the NFC games ... plus 'That 70s Show'.
I mean, who really watches Judging Amy??
I mean, who really watches Judging Amy??
10-07-02, 02:25 PM
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Actually, UPN, WB and Fox each have Buffy/Enterprise, Angel and Firefly. The "big three" don't have anything that I can think of off the top of my head.
If you turn on a TV in our house, 99% of the time it will be on Cartoon Network.
If you turn on a TV in our house, 99% of the time it will be on Cartoon Network.
10-07-02, 03:18 PM
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Doesn't Fox still have The Simpsons? 
Barring sports, CBS and ABC are totally worthless to me.
The only shows I watch are Buffy, Smallville, West Wing, and the WWE.
Barring sports, CBS and ABC are totally worthless to me.
The only shows I watch are Buffy, Smallville, West Wing, and the WWE.
10-07-02, 03:20 PM
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Originally posted by Meatpants
Doesn't Fox still have The Simpsons?
Doesn't Fox still have The Simpsons?
So again, there is not one show on Fox that I'm remotely interested in.
10-07-02, 03:38 PM
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CBS = Everybody Loves Raymond -- one of my favorite sitcoms & Letterman
NBC = Friends, Just Shoot Me, Frasier plus Conan O Brien & SNL
ABC = Drew and Whose Line
FOX = Simpsons, 70's show, Malcolm in the Middle, syndicated shows
WB = syndicated sitcoms, Gilmore Girls, 7th Heavan
UPN = ???
So I picked UPN... because for the most part there is nothing I watch on UPN. Easily the most useless network. But they may improbed. The WB did.
NBC = Friends, Just Shoot Me, Frasier plus Conan O Brien & SNL
ABC = Drew and Whose Line
FOX = Simpsons, 70's show, Malcolm in the Middle, syndicated shows
WB = syndicated sitcoms, Gilmore Girls, 7th Heavan
UPN = ???
So I picked UPN... because for the most part there is nothing I watch on UPN. Easily the most useless network. But they may improbed. The WB did.
10-07-02, 04:59 PM
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UPN has Buffy, and that's pretty much it. It really should have stayed on the WB.
Since the WB and UPN are newer networks, they obviously can't compete with the "big three". The other stations have been around for much longer, so it's not entirely fair to consider them useless.
IMO, with the except with a few sitcoms and "Alias", ABC is pretty much the loser network, with no real definite "hits", with maybe the exception of "The Practice", "NYPD Blue", and "Alias". Compared to the other networks, ABC kind of sucks.
Since the WB and UPN are newer networks, they obviously can't compete with the "big three". The other stations have been around for much longer, so it's not entirely fair to consider them useless.
IMO, with the except with a few sitcoms and "Alias", ABC is pretty much the loser network, with no real definite "hits", with maybe the exception of "The Practice", "NYPD Blue", and "Alias". Compared to the other networks, ABC kind of sucks.
10-07-02, 05:22 PM
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Let's see, my current "must watch" list by network is...
ABC - Alias, The Pratice, NYPD Blue (3)
NBC - West Wing, Crossing Jordan, ER (3)
FOX - 24, Firefly, John Doe (3)
UPN - Buffy, Enterprise (2)
WB - Gilmore Girls, Angel (2)
CBS - ? (0)
So CBS wins(?) out. Although, I will say that Raymond, Yes Dear, CSI and the like are OK time wasters- if I happen to be in front of the TV at the time with nothing else on, but nothing in these shows demands that I keep returning to them every week.
ABC - Alias, The Pratice, NYPD Blue (3)
NBC - West Wing, Crossing Jordan, ER (3)
FOX - 24, Firefly, John Doe (3)
UPN - Buffy, Enterprise (2)
WB - Gilmore Girls, Angel (2)
CBS - ? (0)
So CBS wins(?) out. Although, I will say that Raymond, Yes Dear, CSI and the like are OK time wasters- if I happen to be in front of the TV at the time with nothing else on, but nothing in these shows demands that I keep returning to them every week.
10-07-02, 05:53 PM
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The ladies in CSI demand that I continue to return to it. I also still like Survivor.
WB has Gilmore Girls. While NBC has Conan.
UPN is the loser in my opinion.
WB has Gilmore Girls. While NBC has Conan.
UPN is the loser in my opinion.
10-07-02, 10:34 PM
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Originally posted by Frank TJ Mackey
UPN and WB shouldn't not be considered or compared with
the major four networks.
UPN and WB shouldn't not be considered or compared with
the major four networks.
UPN doesn't even have affiliates in a lot of places. Nor do they have a Sunday schedule.
WB is the closest to being a broadcast net, but doesn’t have a national news program, which, IMO, is what separates the major three from the others.
If it’s news at 10, it ain’t major then.
10-07-02, 11:12 PM
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Black bar? You haven't seen the CSI banners? They shine. They shimmer. They dance in the light. They suck.
Actually, if you want to name the most useless of all:
The Weather Channel.
Actually, if you want to name the most useless of all:
The Weather Channel.
10-07-02, 11:30 PM
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Originally posted by Booth
Did somebody forget to put PAX in the list?
Did somebody forget to put PAX in the list?
10-08-02, 12:07 AM
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PAX is easily the most useless...it was broadcast in Phoenix when I lived there....completely worthless channell.....but UPN runs a close second...so that was my pick.