it just keeps getting better!
a few years back, when i was living in edmonton I got hooked on ZDtv. Shaw Cable offered it for free in the high band of cable, up with CPAC and the channel where the guy reads the news for blind people. It was all technically joyous. Non stop geekdom...it was heaven. They renamed the channel TechTV and it got even better. When I moved to the tdot, it wasn't free anymore, so as part of my homesickness package (oilervision etc) I bought into Rogers Cable's digital cable package to get it all back. And it was all splendid (well oilervision is a different matter, but i'll go into that another day) until last may...

Comcast Cable down south ran a channel called G4....it was all gaming oriented. Clearly marketed towards younger kids with bottomless pockets of cash...not me. So back in May, Comcast bought TechTv and merged G4 with TechTv. The first thing they did was fire half the staff of TechTv and shut down the office, moving operations from San Fransisco to Los Angeles and axing Leo Laporte with his show Call for Help. Shortly after, Leo started the show back up with the Canadian affiliate of G4TechTv (Rogers with Bell having partial ownership). It was rough at first, but has slowly improved and allows me to keep up with Leo. But I digress....

Tuesday was the first show after another shakedown at G4TechTv. They've now fired Yoshi, Dan, Alex, Martin Sargent and Laura Swisher...the only ones left are Kevin Rose, Sarah Lane and the x-play crew, Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler. Granted, the remaining few are great, but still...yoshi is heaven. I gained all of my geeky casemodding knowledge from him...dan and alex, both awesome. I'm going to miss them. What a geek i am, missing tv hosts.

So, what i'm left with is this annoying nasty network that gives gaming reviews and vacant content meant for 16 year old rich kids...no more gadget reviews, no more hardware, no linux tips...ITS HELL!!!!

Leo has comments about it here, and i agree with him completely....its about 2 minutes into the clip. I believe the end of the network is near, and I now mourn the complete loss of Techtv...RIP

- posted by tart @ 3:34 a.m.