“Cable television giant Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it will buy cable network TechTV from Vulcan Programming Inc. Terms were not announced,” Shelley Solheim reports for eWEEK. “Comcast will merge TechTV with G4, Comcast’s network geared for the gaming community. The move will nearly triple the size of G4’s network.”
“‘We’re expanding from 15 million cable subscribers to 44 million cable and satellite subscribers,’ said Deb Green, G4’s chief operating officer. Comcast has been working on the deal for over a year now, she said. Green said TechTV was targeted because it focuses on the same audience as G4: young males, ages 12 to 34,” Solheim reports.
Full article here.
Hmmmmmmmm, I’m a big fan of TechTV (Call for Help, Screensavers and X-Play anyways). G4 . . . not so great. They have quite a few jack*sses on their shows.
Hope this doesn’t bring down TechTV any. Although if they lost RobotWars and Anime Unleashed I wouldn’t be upset at all.
what’s this news has anything to do with Apple?
Sorry, I just reread that post and it looks a little harsh on G4. Not a bad station, just not nearly as good as TechTV IMHO.
what’s this news has anything to do with Apple?
“MacDailyNews : Where Mac News Comes First”
First. Not Exclusively. Nowhere does it say this site is entirely about Apple and/or Macintosh.
TechTV people love apple. They enourage people to buy a mac over a pc all the time! Leo, and Kat both use’s their Power Books on the air, so this station is free publicity for apple. So its deffiantly apple news.
TechTV shows are very Mac-friendly. They spend a fair amount of time discussing and showing Mac features. It’s good stuff Maynard.
Nuff’ said!!!
“what’s this news has anything to do with Apple?”
Well, Leo on Call for Help and the ScreenSavers is always promoting Mac and OSX. He is probably the most visible advocate out there on television. I also hope Comcast doesn’t screw it up.
what’s this news has anything to do with Apple?
I personally appreciate this type of news here since I wouldn’t have read it anywhere else out of all my RSS feeds.
Well, OK… maybe a few of them will have it…… eventually!
Like Wired News:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62801,00.html
“Comcast Buys TechTV” No it hasn’t. It intends to buy and will need FCC approval. It could take months.
If they are so mac friendly, lets see some quicktime video.
Vulcan, the current owner of Tech TV, is owned by Microsoft founder Paul Allen, isn’t it? Hmmm…
If they are so mac friendly, lets see some quicktime video.
Good point. They used to have video in all three formats. Now it’s only WiMP.
I hope Morgan Webb stays, even though she is pretty lame technically. Oh, what am I saying, Comcast doesn’t even carry TechTV in Seattle! Ironic? I haven’t seen it in the year I’ve been here.
I’m guessing the Blazers and Seahawks are sucking Paul Allen dry. No wonder he’s selling…
I pick up TechTV every now and again. It comes through on other stations. Is Patrick Norton from the Screensavers still the anti Mac guy he’s always been? Haven’t watched that show in a while.
yuck, frigging comcast, i never seen such a high cable bill, i watch tv about 2 hours a week just for a change.
i use netflix to watch any movie i want for $20 a month, can watch a movie a day just about.
screw comcost
I got a feeling Tech TV is going to be Microsoft TV
i’ll wait and see, but then i don’t watch TV much either
What does it have to do with Apple? Chris Breen now is seen regularly on TechTV.
As long as Chris Prello , Billo, Dildo what ever his name is doesn’t come back then I’ll be happy
The Screen Savers: Also features Woz on a some what regular basis, and trust me TechTV shows no M$ bias. They are constantly bashing all the security holes in Windoz and IE and recommend using Mozilla over IE and OS X over Windows to not have these issues.
but we’re missing the most important question here: what of cat schwartz? will she continue to appear on “call for help”? if not, will life ever be the same for me? *sniff*
I work at TechTV and morale is very low. Thursday and Friday around the office were mostly little groups huddled in the halls, chit chatting about what the F will happen to the company and their jobs. Well…the editors and IT crew have been told their boss (Mr. D.S.) that they should expect to pack their bags and look for a new job. Most in-house produced shows will not be moved to L.A, where the new network will be based, and TechTV will cease to exist as we know it.
Tech Dead, i’m so sorry about what is going on at techtv, it must be very stressful. good luck to you all.
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G4 is a shit station with no help to any one. The screen savers was one of the bast programs on tv for computer help. If there is any out there that wants to start a show like screen savers out there let me know eamil me.