This made me laugh, it’s so true! Growing up I absolutely loved the History Channel, once they became the ancient aliens and Pawn Stars channel, I was so sad.
Kind of like MTV’s evolution away from music-themed programming. Maybe History Channel can follow their lead with “H2” where they still play history videos.
PBS Digital Studios [1] also funds several high-quality YouTube-style creators. Some of my favorites are "It's Okay to Be Smart" and "PBS Spacetime". Crash Course, a staple of high-school review material has also partnered with PBS.
I found that European TV is a lot drier and more educational than US TV, but I don't know if that's because of interest, regulation, a smaller market (in each language), or ?
This may be a cliche, but I seriously don't understand why anyone still watches cable TV - it's been unbearable for many years and it's expensive. I sort of understand that some people enjoy sports broadcasts that are only available on cable, but the rest is just unbearable and incomprehensible to me.
If you had said “I haven’t watched TV in 20 years. Do people still watch TV?”, that would have been cliche.
But I agree with you. My wife and I are doing thr digital nomad thing traveling across the US staying in hotels. The first thing I do when I arrive is plug in my Roku stick.
Worse. In the next hour, the History Channel has a show about UFOs, the Travel Channel about ghosts, National Geographic about drugs, TLC (formerly The Learning Channel) has a dating show, and about 10 channels have shows about murders.
That's nothing to do with the US and more to do with non-sports cable viewership drying up. All the good educational content moved to YouTube and streaming for the larger viewerbase.
