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  • CaptainZombie
    Brains
    • Jul 2003
    • 37851
    #1

    G4 as a television network is dead

    http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/g4tv/g4...o-e-207489.php


    "Bad news, G4tv fans. All three of you. Comcast is rolling G4tv into E! Networks to consolidate their entertainment networks. More over? It looks like there'll be even less gaming focus.

    E! and Style chief Ted Harbert has been given the newly created title of CEO, Comcast Entertainment Group. He will continue to report to Comcast Programming Group President Jeff Shell. G4 President Neal Tiles, who joined the network in September 2005, will now report to Mr. Harbert.
    G4's executive staff will move into E!'s Los Angeles offices. Sources said layoffs among the G4 staff are likely, though Mr. Harbert said it's too soon to tell...

    "I do agree with the vision of going after young men more than just going after gaming," Mr. Harbert said. "Gaming has been demonstrated as being too narrow."

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    Thank the lord, this channel was turning suck.
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    • jmood88
      Sean Payton: Retribution
      • Jul 2003
      • 34639
      #2
      Re: G4 as a television network is dead

      Originally posted by candyman56
      http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/g4tv/g4...o-e-207489.php


      "Bad news, G4tv fans. All three of you. Comcast is rolling G4tv into E! Networks to consolidate their entertainment networks. More over? It looks like there'll be even less gaming focus.

      E! and Style chief Ted Harbert has been given the newly created title of CEO, Comcast Entertainment Group. He will continue to report to Comcast Programming Group President Jeff Shell. G4 President Neal Tiles, who joined the network in September 2005, will now report to Mr. Harbert.
      G4's executive staff will move into E!'s Los Angeles offices. Sources said layoffs among the G4 staff are likely, though Mr. Harbert said it's too soon to tell...

      "I do agree with the vision of going after young men more than just going after gaming," Mr. Harbert said. "Gaming has been demonstrated as being too narrow."

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      Thank the lord, this channel was turning suck.
      I stopped watching g4 a year ago when they stopped showing actual games and started showing fastlane and **** like that.
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        • rawdog805
          MVP
          • Dec 2002
          • 2788
          #3
          Re: G4 as a television network is dead

          yeah G4 is a waist of a network..
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            • bball_1523
              MVP
              • Aug 2003
              • 5344
              #4
              Re: G4 as a television network is dead

              G4? that thing fell apart when they changed their name from techtv.

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                • Lintyfresh85
                  Where have I been?
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 17492
                  #5
                  Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                  I better not lose X-Play and AOTS... I love those guys...
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                    • Behindshadows
                      CEO - BSG Network
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 8055
                      #6
                      Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                      I only watched it for a few months.....when I finally realized I was never going to spank Morgan Webb or that Cute asian chick....on attack of the show...I lost interest....

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                        • Jistic
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Mar 2003
                          • 16405
                          #7
                          Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                          What was once a good niche network, again tried to be too many things like most channels and in the end was nothing at all. Bunch of bad re runs and non gaming shows.
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                            • Pratt75
                              MVP
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 2357
                              #8
                              Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                              A couple of years ago it was great because it had gaming/tech shows all the time and then it went to crap. The final straw for me was when they took judgement day off the air.

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                                • TJdaSportsGuy
                                  Hall Of Fame
                                  • Dec 2002
                                  • 11146
                                  #9
                                  Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                  Originally posted by bball_1523
                                  G4? that thing fell apart when they changed their name from techtv.
                                  G4TV was actually a network by themselves before they merged with TechTV. I was a fan of the network as well, 3 or 4 years ago. Like you guys said, they tried too hard to give gamers non-gaming related programming that they think they'd like anyway. Trouble with that is that there are plenty of other networks we can watch Star Trek re-runs on. We wanted that network for games, nothing else.

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                                    • bkfount
                                      All Star
                                      • Oct 2004
                                      • 8467
                                      #10
                                      Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                      this is what I was telling all the haters would happen. My brother loved techtv, so when they got bought out he was pissed. If no one watches a channel, it'll go away eventually. All corporations are in it for money, not to piss off a bunch of nerds.



                                      Maybe if they had realized that the audience that watched tech tv was different than the 12 year olds that watched G4, all of this would have been avoided. They assumed that they would just be able to absorb tech tv's built in audience and show G4 on a larger scale.
                                      Last edited by bkfount; 10-14-2006, 12:49 PM.

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                                        • MassNole
                                          Banned
                                          • Mar 2006
                                          • 18848
                                          #11
                                          Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                          This all went down hill when the last original guy from TechTV left AOTS.

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                                            • Slymm
                                              Th* m*n...
                                              • Nov 2002
                                              • 3406
                                              #12
                                              Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                              I swear we have one of these "Ahh I remember the good old days of G4 and Tech TV" threads every year.
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                                                • bball_1523
                                                  MVP
                                                  • Aug 2003
                                                  • 5344
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                                  man techtv was a great channel. I liked watching the screen savers.

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                                                    • mgoblue
                                                      Go Wings!
                                                      • Jul 2002
                                                      • 25477
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                                      TechTV was great back in the day (when it was ZDTV too)...i personally didn't care for all the gaming stuff, i liked the tech shows they had (Fresh Gear, Screen Savers, Call For Help, etc)...when they merged they lost all the cool stuff that TechTV had IMO
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                                                        • Laettner32
                                                          Banned
                                                          • Jul 2002
                                                          • 2873
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: G4 as a television network is dead

                                                          G4 did have some hot women. Kristen Holt from cheat, the asian chick from the old "top10 or list" show they had, and that Pakistani one from "the feed" on AOTS.

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