End of an Era: Television Without Pity to close
04-02-14, 06:46 PM
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A lot of the TWoP community are migrating over to previously.tv -- a site created by some former TWoP recappers and mods.
04-03-14, 06:05 PM
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Is there any company on the planet worse than NBC-Universal-Comcast-Overlord and God, Inc.? I swear to God (Or make that, 'I swear to NBC-Universal'), it's the most atrocious corporation ever. Every single thing they touch they destroy. Sci-Fi? Meet SyFy! Home to such awesome programming as Sharknado and retard models dressing like cavemen and wearing white in the reality show to beat all reality shows. Sci-Fi, where once BSG, Farscape, Stargate - hell, even First Wave and others, aired. Where the daytime hours saw daily marathons of older shows, whether Twilight Zone or short-lived classics like Now and Again.
The Weather Channel - now the Al Roker Network. Where their CEO is hated by the entire company, who doesn't even see fit to show up at work/live within a thousand miles of TWC HQ Atlanta. Where they fire just about every single veteran talent they had and replace them all with Al and about a dozen pretty faces who've got about as much experience as my umbrella does forecasting the weather. The Weather Channel, Lord and God of naming Winter Storms. Screw the National Weather Service, **** meteorology and the absurdity of naming storms on the basis of nothing save temperature (A hurricane is a unique, identifiable system. A snowstorm is a rainstorm with the temperature below freezing.)
Now they bought up TWoP and shut it down? A site which was just, essentially, a message board that existed and generated content solely by and between the userbase? This ain't some network with low ratings demanding cancellation - shutting down an internet message board is insane. Insane. I mean come on, how much did it even cost them to run it? The content was generated *by the users*!!! There wasn't, or at least needn't, be some huge staff. It didn't host video content necessitating a crapload of storage and bandwidth. Crap, it probably cost them more to shut down than it would've to just keep running for the next two years or more - hiring folks to shut it down, possibly archive/redesign a new site around that archival, sending out announcements and PR regarding the shut down, etc.
NBC Universal, how I loathe thee.
The Weather Channel - now the Al Roker Network. Where their CEO is hated by the entire company, who doesn't even see fit to show up at work/live within a thousand miles of TWC HQ Atlanta. Where they fire just about every single veteran talent they had and replace them all with Al and about a dozen pretty faces who've got about as much experience as my umbrella does forecasting the weather. The Weather Channel, Lord and God of naming Winter Storms. Screw the National Weather Service, **** meteorology and the absurdity of naming storms on the basis of nothing save temperature (A hurricane is a unique, identifiable system. A snowstorm is a rainstorm with the temperature below freezing.)
Now they bought up TWoP and shut it down? A site which was just, essentially, a message board that existed and generated content solely by and between the userbase? This ain't some network with low ratings demanding cancellation - shutting down an internet message board is insane. Insane. I mean come on, how much did it even cost them to run it? The content was generated *by the users*!!! There wasn't, or at least needn't, be some huge staff. It didn't host video content necessitating a crapload of storage and bandwidth. Crap, it probably cost them more to shut down than it would've to just keep running for the next two years or more - hiring folks to shut it down, possibly archive/redesign a new site around that archival, sending out announcements and PR regarding the shut down, etc.
NBC Universal, how I loathe thee.
04-04-14, 11:32 AM
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04-05-14, 07:28 PM
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04-06-14, 02:27 AM
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Not to mention the littany of blogs that "review" an episode immediately after it airs (which is pretty much a 6 paragraph recap), to which people then submit comments.
04-06-14, 06:58 AM
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