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Tonight.. for the first time I can remember.... a commercial broadcast station carried a program that had originally aired on PBS a few days before. That's one sign of the spiraling crash of commercial broadcast tv, my wife remarked -- well, its a lot better than an infomercial but good grief.
... the other is the hours and hours of infomercials, the evening news sponsored by Bass-omatic Ronco Turnip Twaddlers only sold on TV, the failure to capture even important local sports events, the hundred variations on the exact same CSI/L&O theme. I won't exactly miss commercial tv, but I grew up when variety shows and comedy sketch shows were king -- I'd rather pull up a few hours of classic Carol Burnett or Dean Martin than watch the pathetic shadows I see now. Actually, I'd rather play a good RPG, a board game, or read a book.
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