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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 22, 2020 7:53:08 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jan 22, 2020 10:08:35 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry. Wasn't that TNN? I remember in the Pittsburgh area, there was WPTT. I only remember old corny 70s monster/horror movies and the Police Academy cartoon. Haha. |
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Post by cjh on Jan 22, 2020 10:19:16 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry. Wasn't that TNN? I remember in the Pittsburgh area, there was WPTT. I only remember old corny 70s monster/horror movies and the Police Academy cartoon. Haha. WPTT was a broadcast channel. It was a UPN station for a bit, then became a WB affiliate. It actually aired quite a bit of wrestling over the years (WCW Pro, WCW Worldwide, ECW's syndicated show, WWF Shotgun Saturday Night). |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 10:24:20 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry. Spike TV was originally the Male Insecurities Network. If you felt like your manhood was threatened, you tuned into this and got a temporary ego boost. MTV 2 was MTV for poor people. No; we got it over the air. |
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Post by rocket on Jan 22, 2020 10:46:31 GMT -5
MTV2 over the air used to be The Box.
When MTV2 not just played music videos, but stuff that wasn't as mainstream. I remember they had a most controversial videos countdown and they did show some of the most famous banned videos late at night.
Also USA in it's early years was a sports channel that didn't run 24/7. They actually had MLB/NHL/NBA rights, and I think the US Open, golf and boxing coverage they had for years after they became a multipurpose channel was a holdover from that.
And I loved USA when they had cartoons/game shows, it certainly didn't have the Christian stigma that the then-Family Channel had when they also aired that type of programming.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 22, 2020 11:05:36 GMT -5
Fox, CW, whatever used to show sitcom reruns, classic and first run cartoons, and the occasional talk show and programs of local interest.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 22, 2020 11:32:27 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry. Wasn't that TNN? I remember in the Pittsburgh area, there was WPTT. I only remember old corny 70s monster/horror movies and the Police Academy cartoon. Haha. Spike TV was TNN. Name change. |
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jan 22, 2020 11:49:25 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry. Also roller derbies and ECW, because they somehow are country-related. |
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Post by agent817 on Jan 22, 2020 12:34:18 GMT -5
Spike TV used to be the MTV of country music. With fishing shows, reruns of Hee-Haw, and concerts from The Grand Ole Opry. I always thought that CMT was the original MTV for country music. I don't get that channel, but from what I hear, they air a lot of reruns of sitcoms on it. |
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jan 22, 2020 12:39:13 GMT -5
Wasn't that TNN? I remember in the Pittsburgh area, there was WPTT. I only remember old corny 70s monster/horror movies and the Police Academy cartoon. Haha. Spike TV was TNN. Name change. Went from TNN (The Nashville Network) to The New TNN (The National Network) to Spike TV to Paramount Network. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 13:21:03 GMT -5
The Disney Channel showed classic Disney content, featurettes about the films and parks, some original children's shows, and some stuff that was as dull as dirt to us kids at the time, like Avonlea.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 22, 2020 13:37:57 GMT -5
Not a cable channel, but CBS used to be seen as an "old people channel" due to most of their programming skewing much older (Murder She Wrote in particular).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 13:47:57 GMT -5
SyFy used to be The Sci-Fi Channel and actually showed science fiction.
ABC Family used to be The Family Channel. It's still pretty much the same thing, just owned by Disney now.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 22, 2020 14:08:14 GMT -5
Chiller-throwback to the early days of the Sci Fi channel
Boomerang-throwback to the early days of Cartoon Network
HBO-Hey, Beastmaster is On
TBS-The Beastmaster Station
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Post by rocket on Jan 22, 2020 14:40:23 GMT -5
Not a cable channel, but CBS used to be seen as an "old people channel" due to most of their programming skewing much older (Murder She Wrote in particular). Looking at their schedule they still are kinda like that. But then again, that's the audience most likely to still watch broadcast network tv now. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 22, 2020 15:21:32 GMT -5
National Geographic, TLC, Discovery and the History Channel used to be educational and informative.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Jan 22, 2020 15:50:32 GMT -5
Not a cable channel, but CBS used to be seen as an "old people channel" due to most of their programming skewing much older (Murder She Wrote in particular). Looking at their schedule they still are kinda like that. But then again, that's the audience most likely to still watch broadcast network tv now. I only hear about them being for old people whenever the Smackdown ratings are talked about. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 23, 2020 10:16:43 GMT -5
BBC America used to actually show British programming!!!
GSN had more than just Steve Harvey Family Feud.
Comedy Central had the best show of the nineties, plus stand-up, classic sitcoms, and UK comedies. And in its original form, Clutch Cargo reruns. (actually if we can fit in HA! too, we can say CC = the former Candid Camera Channel.)
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 23, 2020 10:17:19 GMT -5
SyFy used to be The Sci-Fi Channel and actually showed GOODscience fiction. Fixed. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2020 10:30:08 GMT -5
SyFy used to be The Sci-Fi Channel and actually showed GOODscience fiction. Fixed. Yeah, but also my point was that even though they show a lot of sci fi now, that's not ALL they show. |
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