| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| My thoughts on...the dumbing down of G4 |
 Most bloggers are geeks, so most would be acquainted with G4, or its previous incarnations, ZD TV and Tech TV. Most of my tech knowledge I owe to those networks. I still miss the old screen Savers crew. Leo Laporte, Partick Norton, Megan Morrone, Cat Schwartz and the others. But eventually G4 took over Tech TV, destroying the only pure technology channel on the airwaves and replaced it with 100% videogame related programming. I didn't welcome the change at first, but I eventually learned to accept it, since I was also a fan of videogames. Up till now it's been great. But recently I've realized that G4 has revamped many of their programs, most of them watered down to fit mainstream culture. Seems like G4's audience of gamers is too limited, and they want to attract a wider audience.
And most of these revamped programs are hosted by or feature hot chicks whose only purpose is to serve as eye candy. They're not geeks. They're not one of us! Adam, Morgan and Kevin are just about the only people left from the old school. I should've seen this coming, ever since The Man Show, Street Fury and all those other irrelevant shows began to show up. I believe this move by G4 is a bad idea. We geeks may be few in number, but we're very passionate. Just look at any Mac user or Star Wars fan. And by lowering its programming standards, it runs the risk of alienating its core audience. G4 ahd better sort out its identity crisis soon, or it may have one less viewer.
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Posted by Leon
@ 5:49 PM
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