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There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 2 months ago by Kintarian to c/showerthoughts
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[–] Anticorp 58 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because around 20 years ago these networks figured out that they can make just as much money pumping out cheap and crappy reality shows as they can by creating expensive and difficult to produce quality programming.

[–] Kintarian 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism at its best

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

capiTALiSm bREeDS INnOvATIon

[–] Hugin 6 points 2 months ago

And it worked before streaming came around. Now cable subscriptions are in free fall and they don't know what to do.