Party Vibe

cow and chicken still being repeated? I was still in my 20s when that started! OK its funny but I used to put together the kit what is used at TV studios to get the shows on air in the late 1990s (almost a dream job what turned into a complete fucking nightmare within 2 years 😥 ) and I remember the cartoon channels first starting.

BTW the people what ran them and most of the other telly channels were complete arseholes who exploited their staff and flooded our nation with bare American crap. BBC staff were well meaning, a bit smarter but overstressed and micromanaged by muppets, ITV was pretty much fucked then and its even more fucked today, and the company I worked for was run by shysters what sold poorly tested/debugged stuff (although its core products were OK) and ran it into the ground (last I heard it got bought out by its main competitor).

My idiot-box sits in the corner not switched on most of the time, so if I do want to watch telly I have to wait for the freeview box to restart and its only marginally better quality than youtube now (for reasons I won’t bore you with unless anyone wants to know).

Most of the factual shows seem to be repeats from a few years ago – even the true crime documentaries and the local news (which were the only things worth watching on telly in the 1990s) have been dumbed down and gone to shit!

I forget the name of the dude what made cow and chicken but there was a brief period in the 1990s just before broadband where a lot of TV was a bit more creative – although nothing like the 70s/80s when it was the main form of mass media. (the world at war that extraslim refers to was made when I was about 2 years old!)

By the 90s the mainstream media was already starting to lose money, they were already exploiting interns from posh families working for nothing and then the net and free content for all culture fucked it totally… yes, youtube is supposed to make publishing content cheaper but its increasingly adding to the sea of ripped off stuff and poor quality crap…

incidentally when ITV fucked up the footy by putting ads over England’s goal I knew exactly what kit was involved and what the error was – as in about 2001 I’d installed a similar control panels they use and us engineers did warn of the risk of such an error, the answer what came back was “its designed that way for commercial channels as ads are more important than content”