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[cellio]

Someone is, apparently in all seriousness, developing a TV show for cats -- not cat lovers, but cats. I think they have missed a critical point about their revenue stream; most cats don't have access to the phone and charge cards, or the car to go to the store. :-)

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[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

Besides, it's not clear that cats react to the same things on TV that they do in the real, three-dimensional world: Chimneysweep, for example, has never reacted to animals on TV anything like he does to other animals in the real world. On the other hand, he actually seemed to enjoy Voyager.

No, I don't let him have the remote often anymore :-)

[cellio]

On the other hand, he actually seemed to enjoy Voyager.

So did you hook him on Babylon 5? I suppose Enterprise has a strike against it, what with the captain's dog.

[amergina.livejournal.com]

I think they have missed a critical point about their revenue stream; most cats don't have access to the phone and charge cards, or the car to go to the store.

Actually, it's the insane cat-owner-who-thinks-that-his/her-cat-is-human that they're going after. ;)

[cellio]

Except that, in theory, the cat owner is going to turn on the TV and leave, because the programming isn't interesting to people. So who's going to see the commercials, excapt at the beginning and end of the show?

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, you never know.

A cable comapny in South Carolina had one of those computer-tv-schedule channels. When the computer broke, rather than have that channel be off-the-air, they pointed a video camera at the aquarium in the office, and broadcast that singal live in its place. (I think they patched in audio from the local NPR station). Two weeks later, the computer was fixed and they put the schedule back on the air.

They were literally deluged with phone calls from people upset that the Aquarium channel was no longer available, and did they have plans to bring it back? Eventually, they relented and put the Aquarium feed on permenantly on an unused channel.

H.L. Menken said one would never go broke underestimating the American people. I think he may have been right.

-R

[cellio]

Ok, you win. I needed to clean my monitor anyway. :-)

I've heard of cable companies having an aquarium channel because when you've got 100+ channels all sorts of things look like good options, but I've never heard about an accidental aquarium channel before.

On the other hand, it shouldn't be that surprising. Some people sit and stare at some screen savers, too. The makers of After Dark created a monster. :-)