You know what really grinds my gears?

[LambertandHam]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The fact that IFC on a Saturday is showing 24 hours of Everybody Love Raymond on a Saturday, when they used to show actual independent films. What is the point of TV anymore? To make on-demand streaming services look awesome by comparison?

It's always a surreal moment to catch a show in syndication that you haven't seen since its original run ended and go "I use to watch THIS?!".

[Master Live 013]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Well, I'm conflicted. I despise channels that used to be one thing and then become a shadow of its former self (looking at you History Channel). That said, yesterday morning I was browsing through the TV guide (or whatever it is called now) and was pleasantly surprised that there was an Everybody Loves Raymond marathon on this channel called IFC (the heck do I what that stands for ).

I watched a bit of 2 episodes and had my ELR fix since TBS churned and disposed of it some time ago.

[DieHardYankee26]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It doesn’t stand for anything, they dropped the acronym in 2014.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

It's like AMC. At one point it was American Movie Classics, basically a lesser version of TCM, then it just became a generic cable network called AMC. I just miss IFC being my go to for random offbeat films that you couldn't find anywhere else on TV. Same with Sundance.

[DieHardYankee26]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

As someone who grew up with Court TV only to watch it morph into TruTV, I feel your pain.

[KG]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Well, I'm conflicted. I despise channels that used to be one thing and then become a shadow of its former self (looking at you History Channel). That said, yesterday morning I was browsing through the TV guide (or whatever it is called now) and was pleasantly surprised that there was an Everybody Loves Raymond marathon on this channel called IFC (the heck do I what that stands for ).

I watched a bit of 2 episodes and had my ELR fix since TBS churned and disposed of it some time ago.

Animal Planet deserves to be in this category too. I remember when they used to actually show animal docs instead of animal reality shows like Dr. Pol.

[LowerWolf]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Might as well mention MTV since it’s the leader in the genre.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Might as well mention MTV since it’s the leader in the genre.

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Is IFC still uncensored? I remember that used to be the appeal

[Jr.]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Is IFC still uncensored? I remember that used to be the appeal

It is. I love IFC

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Starting to get my notice about needing to be back in person, but sadly, sounds like it's a reverse of what I was doing before in terms of schedule wise.

Might be working late evening/early nights and sleeping during the day.....

Been waiting for the day when everyone would be required to come back in person, but now I'm not so sure I'd even want to go back/keep that job if it requires me working such unappealing schedules.

Definitely going to talk with management, bringing up my regular pre pandemic schedule, but just sucks that this might be the case. Don't know how to word it without sounding unreasonable. Things pre pandemic was going so well, got into a real nice groove too.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Might as well mention MTV since it’s the leader in the genre.

Hell, MTV even went through it twice, with MTV2. And VH1 did it too.

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_drift

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_drift

Reading that made me wonder...channel drift for radio stations.

I wonder what that must be like. Imagine airing a classic music station, but the definition of classic has changed. Classic music when we were younger might be something like the 50s or 60s styled music. Classic stations have changed into 70s,80s and 90s music. But how much longer before 00s starts being grouped into the classic stations? Because it feels like 90s music has been grouped into classic stations for about a decade at least.

[dubcity]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I remember being a kid in the 90s and oldies stations played the usual late 50s to 60s hits. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Motown. Now those stations play 1980s music typically. Hard to even find a station that plays Woodstock and 70s era rock. But that depends on how big of a market you live in, I guess.