I miss Headline News Channel

[pokerfan]

because you could turn it on at any time of day or night and in 30 minutes be brought up to date on the major stories. So I get home just a little while ago, turn on the boob tube and this is what I see:

CNN: an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu
HLN: Saturday Night Mysteries
CNBC: Till Debt Do Us Part
MSNBC: The Squeeze
FauxNooz: Geraldo

24/7 news cycle my ass! Now, I will get my news from the Intertubes as usual but someone really needs to remind me why I'm writing a monthly check for this crap...

[alp227]

1. the internet makes 24/7 tv news cycle obsolete doesn't it?

just like how MTV doesn't do music videos 24/7 anymore. people don't have to be sheep and wait for a story/segment/whatever to be on TV channel and can just play videos on demand online.

[pokerfan]

3. I just wish that of the 149 channels I get

They could just devote one to news, not analysis, not opinion, not reality BS. Just news. But yeah, I--and anyone reading this--has Internet. So remind me why I'm paying for this? Sports? The last game I wanted to watch was on something called ESPNU which is evidently a premium channel.

[alp227]

4. BBC World News could meet your 24/7 definition but it's not available here

but rather in tape-delayed segments on PBS stations. It is however streamed online go to TVPC.com and look under the UK section. I remember when I was a kid I could listen to the CNN Headline News channel on a local station KLIV-AM 1590, that was from 1998 to 2007 or 2008 when they dropped it to fit in more local content. (KLIV still does CNN bulletins the top of each hour but those are shallow compared to NPR's.)

It seems that in the age when much content is available on demand online at no or little additional cost (why do you need HBO or pay-per-view when you can use the monthly-fee Netflix?) it seems that the only "special" content on subscription television would be sports coverage such as the college basketball tournament games that couldn't fit on CBS's schedule. CNN, MSNBC, and other news services post much of their broadcast content online.

[pokerfan]

5. It's just making less and less sense every day

I know I can BBC World News streaming over the web as well as Al Jazeera and (new to me) NHK. And the ESPNU game I mentioned, found it streaming over the web.

Honestly, not looking good for my cable company.

[alp227]

7. and in this economy i bet that you're on a tight budget

so you might as well do without subscription TV, you can get what you want online and hell even do unauthorized streaming if you'd like

as far as entertainment goes maybe you can go to the library and discover the oldest form of media?

Where I live NHK World is on a digital subchannel of KTSF.

[Morning Dew]

2. HLN sucks these days

All Nancy Grace all the time... sheesh.

[upi402]

6. Yep, just Tweet, Twit, Facebook, whatever - and look for a $9/hr job...

Worry about the latest imploding star, get outrage over some sport star's fumble...
The news has betrayed us.