"The serendipity of randomly catching a movie on TCM now comes with an additional price tag"

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Maxirad,

To paraphrase John Huston in ā€œChinatownā€, ā€œWhen a cable network is a monopoly, itā€™s capable of doing anything!ā€
 
Older movies provide diversity of viewpoints, unavailable in movies made recently. This is partly because recent movies share the same wisdom, and same blind spots we ourselves have, so we learn little from recent ones. In addition, there has been a concentration of corporate media power in recent years, so there is a standard of political correctness in place.
 
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The YouTuber known as Antenna Man makes some good points about rising cable prices and media consolidation in this video.
 
I think it might be a regional thing. I donā€™t think I have a particularly fancy cable package, but I was watching TCM just the other day ago. Itā€™s a dangerous channel to tune intoā€” itā€™s a good way to say, ā€œIā€™m just going to see how this ends!ā€ and then discover youā€™re still watching the next thing, and the next thing, and the next thingā€¦

However, I do know that some of the childrenā€™s channels tend to get mixed around a lot by cable packagers. Some channels get entirely dropped (Nick Jr, Nickelodeon, and Disney Jr were dropped a few years ago); others change their demographics pretty sharply. PBS Kids Sprout turned into Sprout, but then Sprout turned into Universal Kids. And whereas Sprout was targeted more towards preschool/early elementary kids, Universal Kids definitely has a much older slant to it, more the 8-12/13-16 demographic. My 5th and 2nd graders are pretty unenthused about the new lineup. We donā€™t watch much tv, but our local PBS station is full of snow, and it was nice to have the usual PBS-y standbys, in addition to other educational/lighthearted stuff to choose from.
 
I still get TCM on my basic cable. I think it is just comcast.
 
Hahahaā€”I canā€™t read that article because Iā€™m in Europe, so I donā€™t even know what the issue is.
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We could have TCM if we pay additional for it. At the moment we choose not to. When we had it, I often got sucked into its vortex and didnā€™t emerge for hours. So I guess not having it isnā€™t a bad thing. šŸ˜Š
 
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