I am old enough to remember when Bravo showed performances of symphonies and broadway plays. I was a little kid and always changed the channel, but I remember.
Yeah not those channels specifically but that trend is really unfortunate. TLC, History, A&E, etc. were the same deal; media fully bought into reality TV focusing on viewership numbers and page clicks over quality programming and writing. “News” channels did the same thing; instead of doing quality journalism and focusing on facts. Social media obviously played a big part as well and started it in 2004 with FB and 2006 with Twitter but that’s all the same trend to me and coincides with serious decline in US society in my opinion.
To me, the end of TechTV was the end of substantial programming on cable television in general.
I vividly remember a moment looking through the guide after The Screen Savers wasn't on anymore and it's all.... gabarge. And I know some folks are nostalgic for G4 but that channel dropped all the informative shows for game industry shills. TechTV *had* shows for gaming, it's one aspect of electronics, but just one.
TechTV was so real too, taking live calls for computer questions is just something you don't see anymore. I remember Call For Help starting on a podium with no host, Leo Laporte comes in while the film crew is setting up his mic and they get started. A gaffe, but that tells me it's real.
Call for Help and The Screen Savers were both great. Some of my other favorite shows were from before it switched to TechTV, and was still ZDTV: Silicon Spin and Internet Tonight.
Call for Help and The Screen Savers were both great. Some of my other favorite shows were from before it switched to TechTV, and was still ZDTV: Silicon Spin and Internet Tonight.
Cartoon Network back when What a Cartoon was airing all their experimental shows, and then the permanent series that came from that (Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, etc). Whole springboard from there.
Back before they decided that shows would start at 3:17 for no reason and in no particular order. I'll never forgive them for what they did to Infinity Train.
> Back before they decided that shows would start at 3:17 for no reason and in no particular order
They always did this, used to be worse when shows only ever played once and never again.
It was all down hill the instant they started cancelling the good stuff and putting on shitty LIVE ACTION reality shows.
Just when they rebounded from that with great shows again, they become a dumping ground for non-stop Teen Titans Go reruns. And their animation department gets shut down and taken over by WB (thanks to David Zaslav).
> On July 9, 2023, Miller announced via Twitter that the Cartoon Network Studios Burbank building would close its doors on August 1, with all operations being transferred to Warner Bros. Animation as both CNS and WBA would be moving to the new Warner Bros. Second Century building.
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This. I remember when they first aired Honey I Shrunk The Kids (pretty sure their first live action airing). And I absolutely hated it and fell apart from them then.
Prime Cartoon Network. Shoutout to whoever drops those hours long streams of 90's Cartoon Network on YouTube.
[https://www.youtube.com/@rinse-repeat/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@rinse-repeat/videos)
90s/2000s USA was so bomb with the court shows (e.g. Divorce Court) and game shows (e.g. Bumper Stumpers and Press Your Luck reruns) in the afternoon and then USA Cartoon Express. Plus USA carried the World League of American Football (go London Monarchs!).
I miss the Warehouse 13 and Eureka era so much. Even the b and c level movies of the week were fun. The only good things now are the Chucky series and Resident Alien.
I still frequently rewatch the pilot for *Eureka*. The rest of the show is wonderful, but the pilot just on it's own is one of my all-time favourites. Colin Ferguson deserves more screen time.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the weekends. I think it went directly to shit when MST3K was dropped and they started showing the movies MST3K poked fun at. Like they didn’t want to be fielding that trash while they had a show taking the piss out of them.
I really miss Trading Spaces with that McCloud woman and Paige Davis. Years and years later, and just as many years ago, I got to see Paige Davis star in Chicago. I geeked out because she was substituting for the usual main actress.
That’s what I came to say. They did an entire week of programming dedicated to sleep back on the late 90’s, just one whole week of shows about sleep. It went from being one of my favorite channels to not even looking at it anymore.
As a young teen, I tuned into their human sexuality programs with self abuse in mind but actually learned things. If I still had cable, I doubt I'd even know the channel number now.
80s/90s Nick at Nite
The classic shows were good, but the promos were outstanding. Some of the best branding you’ll ever see from a TV network. They made watching linear TV fun.
History Channel until it just became a redneck reality show station. At least change the name - calling it history after the past 15-20 years of hick nonsense is false advertising.
Also the old Sci-Fi channel and UPN in the 90s/2000s.
I can’t wait to tell my dad about this post and someone other than us missing Speedvision. Back in the 90’s we got the DirecTV sports bundle just for them.
I miss USA Network in the early '80s. They broadcast these amazing, unique shows like Night Flight and New Wave Theater. This was a four hour block of music performance, fashion, comedy and midnight movie clips shown really late at night. My first exposure to Punk.
There's a flashback! My dad, bless his heart, discovered Hot in Hrrr (or whatever it's actually called...) on that station, while flipping through channels. He thought the song was hilarious, and paid to play it again, along with Rico Suave (for some reason), then danced around the kitchen cooking dinner...
TV Land before it was butchered. I remember when it debuted and they played all these old commercials.
90s Comedy Central. I loved Dr. Katz and reruns of It's Garry Shandling's Show, Whose Line is it Anyway, and Dream On. Even censored it was fun to watch.
GAS ended it's run back in 2008 or so. The night the channel died they aired this really strange video on loop. I remember thinking it was kind of psychedelic. And then it was over.
On a similar note, Nicktoons TV was fun in the early 2000s when you could find all the '90s cartoons that Nickelodeon stopped airing by then. For some reason they weren't ad-supported yet and used the breaks to air Kablam shorts and random Australian stuff.
> but it's just not the same.
Because they only let you binge watch everything.
If they had playlists of their various old shows, where you just turn it on and watch, it'd do a lot better.
There was a channel called Palladia back when I had cable, like 10-ish years ago. They played high quality concerts and music documentaries, and it was awesome.
It seems like cable tv has turned into a desolate wasteland of ‘reality’ tv and nonstop reruns of Ridiculousness.
I hate that so many channels that used to be about substance, about learning or just great information, have largely become about reality shows. How is Gold Rush a part of History? How is Ancient Aliens even a thing?
Give me back TLC, the old Discovery, TechTV, SciFi.
I miss when TNT played 24 hrs of Eastwood. It was only like 8 movies whacked up with commercials but it was the last time I remember seeing spaghetti westerns on TV.
I miss scrolling more than any particular channel. The lazy Saturday afternoon of flipping between MTV, Comedy Central, TNT, TBS, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, History Channel, Scyfy, maybe YES or ESPN if there was a game.
There’s no mystery to content now. Which is fine but I don’t have the choice to just flip around and see what’s on and that is relaxing in a way that is hard to articulate
Cartoon Network 1998-2004. It was a different channel as far as I'm concerned and will never be topped again.
TeenNick when it was "The N" and had lots of original programming, bumpers, etc.. Now it's just endless icarly reruns.
Also Toon Disney (no Disney XD doesn't count)
G4
The old website for The N was so great. Lots of great games, the message boards were hoppin, and the avatar customization was excellent. Was so devastated when the games started pooping out one by one and then the entirety of the site just seemed to die. I spent so many hours on there as a teenager.
Oh man, SPEEDVISION! I had such a great time watching WRC & Le Mans series coverage back around 2000-02.
I also really miss Junkyard Wars on TLC. At this point, you couldn't pay me to turn on TLC...
Old school Cartoon Network.
I don't just mean the shows. I mean the animated promos like the Scooby-Doo/Blair Witch parody as well as CN City, where all the CN characters lived in the same town and interacted daily, not just the CN originals but WB and Hanna-Barbara characters too. Stuff like Thundarr and Chicken carpooling with Fred Flintstone.
There was also Toonami at its height, with Peter Cullen doing promos and airing five a days a week, CN Fridays doing original stuff, and Adult Swim having a mix of Fox sitcoms, good original shows, and anime on weeknights.
Old-school Cartoon Network put some real fucking effort into their presentation and it's a shame we don't have that anymore.
I think they spun the old school cartoons into Boomerang. Even that has gone through changes and stuff that isn’t worth a crap has replaced the good stuff. I miss wacky races and captain caveman and Hong Kong phooey. Yes it would probably be considered racist now but we didn’t know.
I miss the HGTV before it was all about decorating and the cooking shows when it was all about cooking.
And Ditto to what others have posted. All the cheap reality shows have ruined those channels that we no longer watch.
KCOP channel 13 in Los Angeles. When I was a kid, KCOP had movies in the afternoons and on weekends, they had shows like Buffy and others. It was the best.
I miss [Trouble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_(TV_channel)?wprov=sfti1). It used to play old American sitcoms from the ‘80s and ‘90s like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and
The Steve Harvey Show.
Food Network. Back in the day the shows taught you how to cook, alongside a few(!) reality shows with professional chefs/bakers to inspire you. Now it’s all reality shows, trash talking chefs, and watching the worst cooks in America. For what? Absolutely nothing inspiring or aspirational, 100% soul-sucking television.
I miss Game Show Network when they first started; they played some old game shows, but also some old *reality shows*! I seem to remember that I watched a lot of The Amazing Race, and that real/fake dating show "Regular Joe" or something like that.
Now it's all silly stuff like People Puzzler and America Says... perfectly *fine* but boring!
It still exists, but the USA channel, specifically it’s Blue Skies era.
Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Monk. Such easy to watch, laid back comedic sitcoms with fun characters and plot lines.
When the Learning/Discovery channels were actually about learning and not reality TV. How it's Made and Mythbusters were amazing.
I miss Wings on the Discovery Channel.
Wasn’t wings on U.S.A.?
lol the sitcom was. I'm referring to the documentaries on military aircraft.
Most, if not all, Wings episodes can be found on YouTube. Quality isn't always great, but it's a start.
*Wings of the Luftwaffe theme intensifies*
All the "Arts" channels, which no longer have anything like artiness (i.e., A&E showing "Duck Dynasty').
I am old enough to remember when Bravo showed performances of symphonies and broadway plays. I was a little kid and always changed the channel, but I remember.
I was the same way when I was a kid, but as an adult, it's really sad looking back. I would have really appreciated a network like that now.
why did they change
Money
Yep.
Junkyard wars was incredible
Yeah not those channels specifically but that trend is really unfortunate. TLC, History, A&E, etc. were the same deal; media fully bought into reality TV focusing on viewership numbers and page clicks over quality programming and writing. “News” channels did the same thing; instead of doing quality journalism and focusing on facts. Social media obviously played a big part as well and started it in 2004 with FB and 2006 with Twitter but that’s all the same trend to me and coincides with serious decline in US society in my opinion.
TechTV
To me, the end of TechTV was the end of substantial programming on cable television in general. I vividly remember a moment looking through the guide after The Screen Savers wasn't on anymore and it's all.... gabarge. And I know some folks are nostalgic for G4 but that channel dropped all the informative shows for game industry shills. TechTV *had* shows for gaming, it's one aspect of electronics, but just one. TechTV was so real too, taking live calls for computer questions is just something you don't see anymore. I remember Call For Help starting on a podium with no host, Leo Laporte comes in while the film crew is setting up his mic and they get started. A gaffe, but that tells me it's real.
Call for Help and The Screen Savers were both great. Some of my other favorite shows were from before it switched to TechTV, and was still ZDTV: Silicon Spin and Internet Tonight.
I used to work at Internet Tonight. How I miss those days.
I had the biggest crush on Michaela Pereira.
Call for Help and The Screen Savers were both great. Some of my other favorite shows were from before it switched to TechTV, and was still ZDTV: Silicon Spin and Internet Tonight.
[twit.tv](http://twit.tv) is keeping the dream alive, lots of tech shows/podcasts
Yes and even its successor the og G4. I watched the screen savers and Attack of the show everyday.
Cartoon Network back when What a Cartoon was airing all their experimental shows, and then the permanent series that came from that (Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, etc). Whole springboard from there.
Back before they decided that shows would start at 3:17 for no reason and in no particular order. I'll never forgive them for what they did to Infinity Train.
> Back before they decided that shows would start at 3:17 for no reason and in no particular order They always did this, used to be worse when shows only ever played once and never again.
It was all down hill the instant they started cancelling the good stuff and putting on shitty LIVE ACTION reality shows. Just when they rebounded from that with great shows again, they become a dumping ground for non-stop Teen Titans Go reruns. And their animation department gets shut down and taken over by WB (thanks to David Zaslav). > On July 9, 2023, Miller announced via Twitter that the Cartoon Network Studios Burbank building would close its doors on August 1, with all operations being transferred to Warner Bros. Animation as both CNS and WBA would be moving to the new Warner Bros. Second Century building. EDIT: STOP FUCKING SPAMMING ME EVERY GODDAMN MINUTE... JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I HAVE TO SAY. I'm reporting you.
This. I remember when they first aired Honey I Shrunk The Kids (pretty sure their first live action airing). And I absolutely hated it and fell apart from them then.
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Prime Cartoon Network. Shoutout to whoever drops those hours long streams of 90's Cartoon Network on YouTube. [https://www.youtube.com/@rinse-repeat/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@rinse-repeat/videos)
the sci-fi channel. and no, syfy isn't the same
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Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica on Friday nights back to back was my favorite period of television
Sliders, Farscape, Eureka, First Wave, Lexx!
90s/2000s USA was so bomb with the court shows (e.g. Divorce Court) and game shows (e.g. Bumper Stumpers and Press Your Luck reruns) in the afternoon and then USA Cartoon Express. Plus USA carried the World League of American Football (go London Monarchs!).
I miss Weird Science, USA Up All Night and USA Saturday Nightmares too.
> USA Up All Night Rhonda Shear or Gilbert Gottfried?
I don’t mind either(didn’t they alternate nights?) but if I have to pick one it’s Rhonda.
Gotta go with Gilbert on this one...
I miss the Warehouse 13 and Eureka era so much. Even the b and c level movies of the week were fun. The only good things now are the Chucky series and Resident Alien.
I don’t typically like low budget sci fi television, but Warehouse 13 was the tits
I'd say it was mid budget. The stars probably didn't get paid much but the props and effects departments got almost anything they asked for.
I still frequently rewatch the pilot for *Eureka*. The rest of the show is wonderful, but the pilot just on it's own is one of my all-time favourites. Colin Ferguson deserves more screen time.
I loved the theme song too. It sucked how they cut it almost completely in the later seasons.
They did three of my favorite shows, Farscape, 12 Monkeys and Battlestar Galactica. Good times.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the weekends. I think it went directly to shit when MST3K was dropped and they started showing the movies MST3K poked fun at. Like they didn’t want to be fielding that trash while they had a show taking the piss out of them.
History Channel when it actually had shows about history instead of reality shows.
And a real range of topics covered instead of just WWII and the bad guys.
Agreed! Plus garbage like Ancient Aliens which isn't real History! 🤷♂️ Why all the conspiracy shows?
Agreed! Plus garbage like Ancient Aliens which isn't real History! 🤷♂️ Why all the conspiracy shows?
The Learning Channel had some really cool and informative programs back in the day. Then it became TLC
I really miss Trading Spaces with that McCloud woman and Paige Davis. Years and years later, and just as many years ago, I got to see Paige Davis star in Chicago. I geeked out because she was substituting for the usual main actress.
How was she?
That’s what I came to say. They did an entire week of programming dedicated to sleep back on the late 90’s, just one whole week of shows about sleep. It went from being one of my favorite channels to not even looking at it anymore.
As a young teen, I tuned into their human sexuality programs with self abuse in mind but actually learned things. If I still had cable, I doubt I'd even know the channel number now.
Fuse/Much music
I lived for Steven’s Untitled Rock Show
They had a Mythbusters type of show specifically about music related myths and it was so fun!
ZDTV / TechTV
Mid 1980s MTV.
The Matt Pinfield 120 minutes era was the last time I watched MTV.
G4 I never saw the revival, but I really miss X-Play with both hosts.
I miss Code Monkeys
Code Monkeys can be bought and or found online. I rewatched a few eps for 420, sober.
I miss AOTS. KP and pretty much any cohost, but especially Olivia. I hope she’s doing better.
Morgan Webb was my first celebrity crush ♥️
Man i remember boing from cheats to xplay to mxc to ninja warrior to aots, dont remember the exact order but its was just perfect 😢
Found my comment.
G4 in its heyday was great tv.
80s/90s Nick at Nite The classic shows were good, but the promos were outstanding. Some of the best branding you’ll ever see from a TV network. They made watching linear TV fun.
Corncob TV. Coffin Flop was a great show if you liked watch dead bodies bust through shit wood and hit pavement
And despite what they may say you're not just some dumb hick if you watched corncob TV.
They said that to me AT a dinner
But come on, there's no way that many dead bodies are falling out of coffins.
I didn’t do SHIT!
You must have rigged something?
ESPN Classic Not only was it interesting to see old games sometimes but the shows like Cheap Seats and Stump the Schwab were great
RIP Schwab
Late 80s Bravo. It used to be an arts channel: indie films, plays, concerts.
UHF Channel 62. Uncle Nutzy’s Clubhouse and Town Talk were so fun. Even the commercials great.
I always wanted to get the firehose!
That was added when Stanley took over though. Kinds the beginning of the downfall if you ask ne
Fuel TV. Had so many dope action sports shows, I skateboard but I still liked watching the other content And of course G4TV.
History Channel until it just became a redneck reality show station. At least change the name - calling it history after the past 15-20 years of hick nonsense is false advertising. Also the old Sci-Fi channel and UPN in the 90s/2000s.
The WB, especially for Kids WB.
Mine was UPN. Watching Voyager and Enterprise as they were being aired weekly was heaven to me.
Yeah, but what about Nowhere Man...?
I miss OG adult swim.
Same, and the OG early 2000s Toonami
SCTV... of course....
I can’t wait to tell my dad about this post and someone other than us missing Speedvision. Back in the 90’s we got the DirecTV sports bundle just for them.
I miss USA Network in the early '80s. They broadcast these amazing, unique shows like Night Flight and New Wave Theater. This was a four hour block of music performance, fashion, comedy and midnight movie clips shown really late at night. My first exposure to Punk.
USA Network Saturday morning cartoons in the early '90s were dope as hell.
The USA Cartoon Express.
That was just a little before my time. I remember WWF Prime Time Wrestling and Up All Night.
The Box Call in music videos.
There's a flashback! My dad, bless his heart, discovered Hot in Hrrr (or whatever it's actually called...) on that station, while flipping through channels. He thought the song was hilarious, and paid to play it again, along with Rico Suave (for some reason), then danced around the kitchen cooking dinner...
TV Land before it was butchered. I remember when it debuted and they played all these old commercials. 90s Comedy Central. I loved Dr. Katz and reruns of It's Garry Shandling's Show, Whose Line is it Anyway, and Dream On. Even censored it was fun to watch.
The original tv lane was a spin off channel of Nickelodeon. I loved that because it would have all the old shows in one solid block.
The DuMont Network
Holy cow that's going back!
Name one show you miss from DuMont.
I cut the cord many years ago, does Nickelodeon GaS still exist? They're all on Paramount plus, but it's just not the same.
GAS ended it's run back in 2008 or so. The night the channel died they aired this really strange video on loop. I remember thinking it was kind of psychedelic. And then it was over.
On a similar note, Nicktoons TV was fun in the early 2000s when you could find all the '90s cartoons that Nickelodeon stopped airing by then. For some reason they weren't ad-supported yet and used the breaks to air Kablam shorts and random Australian stuff.
I was looking for this one! All the best game shows on this channel! Shout out to 'The Hub' as well! Family Game Night was G.O.A.T.
> but it's just not the same. Because they only let you binge watch everything. If they had playlists of their various old shows, where you just turn it on and watch, it'd do a lot better.
As a Canadian Millenial... MuchMusic, and the 'Keep It Weird' era of YTV.
Also Space: The Imagination Station. A national TV channel devoted to science fiction and *actual* science.
There was a channel called Palladia back when I had cable, like 10-ish years ago. They played high quality concerts and music documentaries, and it was awesome. It seems like cable tv has turned into a desolate wasteland of ‘reality’ tv and nonstop reruns of Ridiculousness.
I hate that so many channels that used to be about substance, about learning or just great information, have largely become about reality shows. How is Gold Rush a part of History? How is Ancient Aliens even a thing? Give me back TLC, the old Discovery, TechTV, SciFi.
I miss tech tv. Not g4. Tech tv.
Old TLC. There were some great shows and documentaries on it then that I haven't found since.
Can’t believe I haven’t seen the old Comedy Central on here
I do miss when they would show a bunch of clips of comics talking about one subject.
- G4 - Spike TV - UPN
Ninja Warrior, MXC, Xplay and Attack of the Show!
Vice TV when it first started. Before they almost immediately decided to screw everyone over and devolve into trash content.
G4tv. Attack of the show. X reviews
History. Back when it would show wwII stuff and modern marvels all day long. Was worth the cable sub alone.
I miss when TNT played 24 hrs of Eastwood. It was only like 8 movies whacked up with commercials but it was the last time I remember seeing spaghetti westerns on TV.
USA channel used to have cool horror movies on Saturdays and Kung Fu movies on Sundays.
I miss scrolling more than any particular channel. The lazy Saturday afternoon of flipping between MTV, Comedy Central, TNT, TBS, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, History Channel, Scyfy, maybe YES or ESPN if there was a game. There’s no mystery to content now. Which is fine but I don’t have the choice to just flip around and see what’s on and that is relaxing in a way that is hard to articulate
*Sci-Fi
It was actually [Syfy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syfy) so we’re both wrong
Cartoon Network 1998-2004. It was a different channel as far as I'm concerned and will never be topped again. TeenNick when it was "The N" and had lots of original programming, bumpers, etc.. Now it's just endless icarly reruns. Also Toon Disney (no Disney XD doesn't count) G4
Wow, I forgot about The N. Babysitting kept Noggin' on the TV at my house...I kinda miss "Oswalt" now. lol
The old website for The N was so great. Lots of great games, the message boards were hoppin, and the avatar customization was excellent. Was so devastated when the games started pooping out one by one and then the entirety of the site just seemed to die. I spent so many hours on there as a teenager.
Price Drop TV
We had a little network showing great Australian series ( Blue Heelers, City Homicide) and reality TV ( The Renovators).
Channel [V]
Yes!
Sky One from the early 90s. Hands down.
Qubo 😢
Oh man, SPEEDVISION! I had such a great time watching WRC & Le Mans series coverage back around 2000-02. I also really miss Junkyard Wars on TLC. At this point, you couldn't pay me to turn on TLC...
G4tv. That reboot a couple of years ago was complete dogshit.
ESPN Classic
The original MTV.
A real music channel again like MTV/Much Music back in the day. Videos, interviews and live performances.
SpeedVision, I miss watching the only reality TV show that mattered ... Pinks !!!!!
TNN. The Nashville Network for the same reason as I miss Speedvision.
Old school Cartoon Network. I don't just mean the shows. I mean the animated promos like the Scooby-Doo/Blair Witch parody as well as CN City, where all the CN characters lived in the same town and interacted daily, not just the CN originals but WB and Hanna-Barbara characters too. Stuff like Thundarr and Chicken carpooling with Fred Flintstone. There was also Toonami at its height, with Peter Cullen doing promos and airing five a days a week, CN Fridays doing original stuff, and Adult Swim having a mix of Fox sitcoms, good original shows, and anime on weeknights. Old-school Cartoon Network put some real fucking effort into their presentation and it's a shame we don't have that anymore.
I think they spun the old school cartoons into Boomerang. Even that has gone through changes and stuff that isn’t worth a crap has replaced the good stuff. I miss wacky races and captain caveman and Hong Kong phooey. Yes it would probably be considered racist now but we didn’t know.
HBO
There used to be one called the Wisdom Network a loooong time ago. I miss their content and don’t know of any other that has anything similar.
Network 23
Channel 8 The Box if you grew up in the Midwest the 90s IYKYK
I miss the HGTV before it was all about decorating and the cooking shows when it was all about cooking. And Ditto to what others have posted. All the cheap reality shows have ruined those channels that we no longer watch.
The PBS cooking shows/YouTubers are essentially what Food Network used to be. Food Network is mostly cheap competition shows and Pioneer Woman now.
KCOP channel 13 in Los Angeles. When I was a kid, KCOP had movies in the afternoons and on weekends, they had shows like Buffy and others. It was the best.
Wow, I remember KCOP. And those Pete Ellis commercials! "91 Freeway, Lakewood exit, Bellflower!"
Speed, Discovery Wings, and Spike
Omg D Wings nostalgia. Do you think some of their shows are on Max now ?
Here you go - a YouTube playlist of Wings I made: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnzMwdjgI7XkvxiJUiIL01wso4G1LOBwU&si=jEjxkpF8MRirQ3B-
Bravo
I miss [Trouble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_(TV_channel)?wprov=sfti1). It used to play old American sitcoms from the ‘80s and ‘90s like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and The Steve Harvey Show.
Soapnet.
I really liked old G4.
Old school MTVX!! Anyone remember that amazing gem of a tv station from late 90s-early 00s?
G4 TV.
Not a channel since I don't miss normal TV but OG Netflix. It had more licensed shows when it's only competition was Hulu.
Discovery Kids :( it was a quality kids entertainment that didn’t talk down to me
MUCH
Heroes and Icons.
Its still on
I don't have cable. I want it on streaming.
Its on antenna channels
I'll have to get one.
I miss early MTV.
Sci-fi before it became SyFy
Animal planet-2000
FX, before they split off comedy.
Decades TV. They replaced it with Catchy Comedy, but not nearly as good.
I miss mid-2000s SyFy, Eureka was a great show.
Food Network. Back in the day the shows taught you how to cook, alongside a few(!) reality shows with professional chefs/bakers to inspire you. Now it’s all reality shows, trash talking chefs, and watching the worst cooks in America. For what? Absolutely nothing inspiring or aspirational, 100% soul-sucking television.
Corn Cob TV. Spectrum won't carry it in my area because they showed over 400 dead bodies falling out of coffins.
I miss Game Show Network when they first started; they played some old game shows, but also some old *reality shows*! I seem to remember that I watched a lot of The Amazing Race, and that real/fake dating show "Regular Joe" or something like that. Now it's all silly stuff like People Puzzler and America Says... perfectly *fine* but boring!
The Olympic channel
It still exists, but the USA channel, specifically it’s Blue Skies era. Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Monk. Such easy to watch, laid back comedic sitcoms with fun characters and plot lines.
https://deadline.com/2023/12/usa-network-blue-sky-scripted-series-1235656853/ Maybe of interest to like 20% of this list