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June 23, 2005 by jameyt

Since my projects are all finished for the month, I’ve got a bit more time to blog. Good thing. My TV-Daddy blog is up and running and the folks with Media Village are starting to promote it.

I’ve found that in the past few days I don’t watch a lot of tv that my kids don’t watch. Cameron and I miss some of the shows the rest of America watches because our kids are usually in the room. That leaves us out of the “Desperate Housewives” and “The O.C.” viewing numbers.

I started to figure most people wouldn’t care to read about family friendly tv and have tried to blog on TV-Daddy about other shows. Tonight, the publisher and editor of Media Village told me to stop and just concentrate on family friendly tv.

There’s not much of that out there anymore unless you count TV Land and HGTV. It’s funny how times have changed. When I was a kid and cable came around, the thinking was that people who got cable wanted to watch shows the networks couldn’t put on the air. Nowadays, if you want to watch shows your whole family can watch, you depend on cable or video rentals.

Tonight, we rented “To Kill a Mockingbird” which my kids had never seen.
It was one of the best “tv nights” we’ve ever had.

jt

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  1. jamey tucker says

    June 23, 2005 at 6:11 pm

    Thanks Matthew,

    The links work fine on my computer. TV Daddy takes you to my blog homepage while mediavillage takes you to it’s homepage.

    here’s the actual url
    http://blogs.mediavillage.com/tv_daddy/

    http://www.mediavillage.com/

    thanks again for the comment

  2. Matthew says

    June 23, 2005 at 6:32 pm

    Sorry, I probably should have put that on the other blog. The links I was talking about are on the TV-Daddy blog itself. Like, the one to “Continue reading ‘Best Movie Quotes…”

    Matthew

  3. jamey tucker says

    June 23, 2005 at 6:36 pm

    I’ll check it out, thanks

  4. mike says

    June 24, 2005 at 2:35 am

    It’s because “families” aren’t a demographic that’s attractive to advertisers. Not like “young men” and “teenage girls” and “single moms.” Complaining doesn’t help, because any attention is good attention in the media world. Nor does letter-writing to the networks, since viewers not in the demographic don’t matter to them anyway.

    The days of broadcast television as a meaningful cultural servant are long over. Not coming back, either. When wide-acess broadband cable comes along, where you can watch television-quality shows via the internet, then (finally) the advertiser-driven marketplace of television — where you have to accept what they nets offer, when they offer it with no other options — will be broken. When someone in that near future invents the television equivalent of an RSS feed, so I can choose and download the episodes of the shows I want when I want them to my TIVO, it’s all over.

    Remember years ago the Internet “television show,” that was called The Spot? It failed only because it was too far ahead of its time. Look at all the folks making their own fan films or go to Channel 101 (http://www.channel101.com) to see the future. Shows made by local production companies and local actors uploaded to the net for the world to watch. Just like the blogosphere, hundreds of folks doing their own thing for the love of it.

    The only problem then will be finding these shows and choosing between them.

  5. jamey tucker says

    June 24, 2005 at 4:03 am

    sorry Matthew. I accidentally removed your first comment trying to figure out what’s causing the problem with all of the white space at the top of the blog.

    Sometimes, I’ve learned, long sentences (or urls) can throw off the format. I thought I could remove your comment (which had a long url) and then put it back.

    Matthew’s original post pointed out that the links on my other blog, tv daddy, wasn’t working.

    I’ll try to figure out what’s throwing off the format.

  6. jamey tucker says

    June 24, 2005 at 4:08 am

    Mike, you’re exactly right. Video on the internet is still in it’s infancy but videoblogs are growing fast. I’m currently working on another project with another website and blog which will feature videos 2-5 times each week.

    Once I get the site up and running I’ll share it with you.

    In the meantime, many tv stations will continue to stick their heads in the sand or whistle past the graveyard, ignoring a reality that’s fast approaching.

  7. mike says

    June 25, 2005 at 2:19 am

    I don’t have the url, but go to Darrel Phillips’ blog for a story about a Nashville news station taking the leap later this year. It’s revolutionary.

    Have a good vacation!

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