So Tech tv has been purchased by comcast and is being merged with g4tv. This is sort of a bummer – some of the techtv programming is pretty good. As goofy and content light as the screensavers is, I still watched it most nights while eating my supper and occasionally some gems would come across on air, plus they often had interesting folks in for interviews. G4 tv meanwhile has almost nothing going for it – they have very little actual content which they replay endlessly – the same half dozen half hour shows replay at least 10 times a week, and almost all of it is fawning coverage of the big game releases that’s no steps above adware. Visit their website for a glimpse into this actually – what you get instead of content is a request for demographic information about yourself before you’re allowed into the site. That about sums them up I think – I won’t grace this approach with an actual link.

Anyway…bummers. I hope the screensavers and X-play persist under the new management. And maybe some of the management folks from Techtv, accustomed to producing a significant amount of new programming on a weekly basis, will manage to push the new network in that direction. Frankly I doubt it though. My guess this is about economics – Techtv wasn’t doing well producing lots of content, and G4 tv was doing sufficiently well with their approach of ‘not much programming, and most of the new programming basically is infomercials’ so I bet Techtv is absorbed, screensavers goes on in some form, and most of the rest of it is killed off.