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In the previous edition of Television History and Trivia, I talked a bit about the Channel 3 (broadcast) group, and I noted that the management of the station group seems to be defective or stupid, given the channel group has 14 feeds and only one has video and audio. It has been at least a year since the Channel 3 group (tied to WHNE-TV) has had mostly channels with only audio. I reported last time that the most recent addition to the group is Z Living (on Channel 3.14). Well, I may have made a mistake, since my talk was based on information gained while I was in the Detroit area, but I posted the information when I was up north and away from the Detroit area. I returned to Detroit on August 14, 2025, after having been gone for about two weeks, and I discovered that Z Living was now on Channel 3.9, and Channel 3.14 has informercial programming. So the group has one channel with video and audio and 13 channels with only audio. It is still stupid!
I have reported that the subchannel universe for the Detroit area is getting worse--more and more ugly channels are showing up. When I was away from Detroit in August 2025, Channel 38.4 became the Detroit-area home for a channel called "Movie Sphere Gold." I have tuned in to the channel intermittently, and I always come across movies that can be called "B" class or "C" class modern movies, and they are nothing like the "B" movies of the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s and 1960s, when "B" movies were at least likeable, and proof of that was when "Television Drive-In" existed as part of the Channel 3 group (once called the Channel 14 group). Today, ugly programming can easily be found on Channel 38.4, Channel 50.5, Channel 50.6, Channel 18.7, and Channel 7.2, and a lot of other channels are boarderline ugly, since they are gutterish and low-brow in tone, and, as I have noted before, the broadcast networks are pushing out ugly programming regularly (and reruns of some of the series are getting runs on subchannel networks).
Okay, here we go. On Thursday, August 14, 2025, at about 12:45 p.m., I happened to tune into a repeat broadcast of Amanpour & Co. on the PBS affiliate in Detroit, and it seems the program had originally aired the previous night in first-run. A woman named Brooke Pinto (a Democrat, who was a councilman for Washington, D.C. (Ward 2)) was being interviewed, and, at the time, the theme of the program was focused mostly on Donald J. Trump's recent taking over (for a legal short term) the police operations in Washington, D.C.. Brooke Pinto passed along of trite and useless comments, often not really answering questions clearly, and she pushed out the idea that the taking over of the police force was "not a serious solution," and she said that we have to "have each others back," and she said that we have the "lowest violent crime in 30 years," and she said that the idea of the take over was an "inconsistant" thing. Brooke Pinto also pointed out that National Guard people who come into the communities do not know the communities so they cannot really understand the problems of the communities or deal with the communities. The biggest nonsence passed along by Brooke Pinto was this statement--"...The government [meaning in this case it seems the Washington, D.C., government] is here to solve problems.". That was crap that got passed along in other words later or again in the interview. The government of Washington, D.C., has not solved problems, and, by the way, the police union tied to Washington, D.C., was at the time supportive of Donald J. Trump's actions, and that is a sign that crap has been going on in Washington, D.C., despite what Brooke Pinto was trying to discount the entire time that I watched. By the way, the interviewer--a black woman named xxxx xxxx--always asked (in the portion that I caught) leading questions, working to give Brooke Pinto the answers that she wished to hear.
Announcement for the novice again (reworked in March 2019): To get useful television-delivered news or Internet-delivered news, try Breitbart News Network (the history of which goes back to 2007), WorldNetDaily.com, Newsmax TV (which was started up in 2014), CNS News (which is on the Internet and which was launched on June 16, 1998), and One America News Network (a.k.a. OAN), since the entities do not blindly support Barack Obama-type people (communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, and Shariaists), as do CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV (Note: To learn about bad journalism, you might tune in to CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV from time to time to see how they differ from the better places mentioned). I note that the Fox News Channel is evolving into a rotten channel, becoming like those that I have put down in this paragraph. If you are unclear of my intentions, I say in different words that you should boycott CNN, MSNBC, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, and ABC-TV and even now much of what is on the Fox News Channel and hope they lose more ratings and advertising revenues, since they are expendable, and it is time for you to find the guts to be mean and heartless and cancel them--since they are hurting you. In 2019, "The Drudge Report" was sold, and it should be treated as suspect for now. [Note: Everyone in the Democratic Party in the country is rotten, and the Republican Party establishment has shown itself to be socialistic and communistic within the last few years, and only a few of the rotten people tied to the Republican Party are U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie.]
[Note: Here is an example of Chris Christie's rottenness. On Sunday, February 6, 2022, Chris Christie was a guest on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (of ABC-TV), which had Martha Raddatz as the host, and Chris Christie pushed out crap. For example, Chris Christie said--"...And let's face it. Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump...an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week--overturn the election. And he's trying to do a cleanup on aisle one here...." and "...He actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned....". That is bullshit!]I have reported that, generally speaking, television can be grouped into three main periods of time. The first runs from roughly 1946 (though commercial television had started in 1941) to the 1980s, and it is a time when there could be badly produced network shows or local shows, but there were no "ugly" (non-nice and non-pleasant) shows. The second period covers the 1980s and 1990s, and the "ugly" shows were slowly appearing on television for viewers, especially though syndication and through the commercial and non-commercial networks (such as PBS). The third period runs from the start of this century, and it runs up to today, and it is a period during which "ugly" shows have become commonplace, and, by the way, it is a period in television history when producers of television often have no real goal of "entertaining" the television viewers and are aming to push political or social themes, most often rotten themes related to socialism and communism. With this information in mind, you are now ready to take up reading a commentary by me related to the idea that soon Stephen Colbert will no longer host a late-night talk show for CBS-TV.
The story is not just about Stephen Colbert, as many have pushed out over the period of time from July 17, 2025, to today, and here are reasons that I see:x. One reason that I have in mind is that people are moving away from regular television to see streamed stuff or streaming stuff. They are going because doing so is joining in on a fad. They are also going because of what is and is not being presented on regular television, especially in relation to the networks, is not drawing their interests, being so much of the same thing.
x. The previous section was mostly focused on things like AppleTV and YouTube TV, which play mostly new stuff and repeats of recent stuff, and this section has a bit about YouTube proper. On YouTube, people can be drawn to all sorts of programming, such as about making things and repairing things. Also, YouTube happens to carry episodes of a number of old-time television series, such as from 1950s and 1960s, that are fun to watch and are not turn-offs. So people are getting in the habit of not going to the television stations and broadcast networks because they can fnd likeable stuff on YouTube.
x. Now I talk about Stephen Colbert. First, he is an ugly man (physically); he is no Jack Parr or Johnny Carson (the latter of whom can be seen on episodes of The Tonight Show (in repeat form) on Antenna TV (a subchannel network) these days. Second, the attitude from Stephen Colbert each night is not pleasant; it is an attitude that is off-putting, unlike that which had come from, for instance, Johnny Carson for years.
x. Other late-night talk shows beyond Stephen Colbert's series have the same attitude or tone or mood as that is presented by Stephen Colbert, and a good example is Seth Meyers's late-night show on NBC-TV. I am bringing up the theme of cumulative mood. Late night talk shows as a rule have the same unpleasant tone coming from, for one, the hosts. The hosts, for example, are not really people with whom a person would like to spend hours and hours at the person's home (unless the person is not so good).
x. The politics of the late night talk shows is socialistic and communistic and nasty. The rottenness presented over the last decades has been cumulative and has set and created the tone for what the 11:30 p.m. (or so) time is all the time--at least five days a week. They actually perputulate lies that are circulating, such as those originated by the main news entities. In addition, Saturday Night Live (of Saturday evenings on NBC-TV) has helped to make Saturday evenings rotten, like the weekdays.
[Note: It must be noted that the using of Saturday Night Live on Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. in rerun form on NBC-TV for a number of years and the using of Saturday Night Live in rerun form on the "Roar" subchannel is adding to the tone of broadcast television as a rule.]x. Many network news shows--broadcast news shows and cable news shows--are communistic and socalistic in nature, and people have come to realize the news from, for instance, the broadcast, so they are less in the habit of tunng into other programming, such as late night programming, of the broadcast networks. I show in a number of documents that exist at the website for The Hologlobe Press proof of the corruption in the news departments of the broadcast networks, such as in relation to impeachments of Donald J. Trump.
x. The broadcast network programming lacks diversity--it is so much of the same thing with different names (sometimes). There are the blocks related Law and Order and NCIS and Chicago Fire, for instance, and there are shows not related to those titles with same themes--police and crooks presented to seem be like real life. Really, in prime time (unlike years ago), there is nothing for children, and it seems the networks are working to target inner-city people and especially inner-city blacks so that the networks can keep pushing Democratic Party crap into their minds and keep people misinformed. That makes people not so likely to regularly tune into the broadcast networks, and, for instance, children will not get in the habit of watching the broadcast networks.
x. Let me add to the theme of the previous section. The family's gathering together at the television set has disappeared on prime-time network television. One reason for that is there is not nice family stuff on network prime time schedules, and, for instance, there are not three-hour blocks of programming in a night--on all the networks--that the entire family can enjoy, as there was in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s. Years ago, a person could sit through comedies and variety shows and dramas for at least three hours in the evening and not be put aback or made to feel crappy, and they could sit through news shows at about 11:00 p.m., and then they could--as long as they stayed awake--see nice interviews and musical performances on talk shows.
x. I report that the subchannel networks are those things that an individual television station might push out as extra proramming to be seen (part of a channel group, covering, maybe, Channel 6.1 through Channel 6.8 somewhere). Too many subchannel networks and cable networks are playing what is also on television stations though syndication, and, for instance, a series (in repeats) can exist on more than one subchannel, and examples of such series are Perry Mason; The Carol Burnett Show; Walker, Texas Ranger; In the Heat of the Night; Bonanza; and Columbo. It is not that I do not watch some of those series regularly, but I know at least 700 half-half and one-hour filmed entertainment series were made in the period covering the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and I can say that, in essence, all (even those of low-budget) are likeable today because they were not ugly.
Let me break in here to put an overall tone on what I have been talking about. I can say, generally speaking, the general tone of what broadcast television is is turning viewers off or chasing away viewers and making it so that viewers are giving up on broadcast television. It is a cummlative thing.
x. There is too much hitting over the head with LGBTQ+ stuff. For example, I have shown how new game-show series on the broadcast networks in recent years always seem to have gay people on them or like people, especially first episodes, making it seem the producers and casting directors purposely looked for LGBTQ+ people (over others) to be contestants and celebrities on the screen. It is rather corrupt, or it comes off as rather corrupt. Remember--I reported that the new Match Game (with Martin Short as the host) had three LGBTQ+ types in the first half hour of the debut episode. Match Game was a turn-off right from the start for good people. Since the 1980s, television--syndicated television--has pushed out a lot flakes as the hosts or co-hosts of talk-show series, such as Rosie O'Donnell's series, Ellen Degeneres's series, and Drew Barrymore's series, and xxx Karamo's series, and there is stuff like The View.
Even PBS is involved in setting the tone of broadcast television, and one hint of that is presented earlier in this document.
Because the entire tone of broadcast television is not good, Americans are tired of it.
I wonder what CBS-TV is going to do with the 11:30 p.m. time slot on weekdays, starting in roughly May 2026, when Stephen Colbert is gone. CBS-TV will be fighting the general tone that broadcast television is. It could air repeats television series that have recently been on prime-time television. Do you see the problem with that? Another talk show would probably be no gain. It cannot run sports programs, since those types of shows are all over the place. CBS-TV could give the time block back to local stations, but then what will the stations do.
Hey, get this! Maybe CBS-TV could air "B" movies of the 1930s and 1940s and 1950s and 1960s, taking over the area of television that disappeared when "Television Drive-In" disappeared a few years ago. Of course, that sort of stuff is already on YouTube.Announcement: Recently, I have added some new documents to the collection of my documents at the website for The Hologlobe Press. One of the documents is entitled A Document that Dispels Myths and Nonsense of Science-Fiction Books, Movies, and Television Shows (A Logic Puzzle), which can be reached through this Myths link. Another document is And So You Think You're Going to the Moon, Mars, or the Stars..., which can be reached by using this Moon link. And yet another of the documents is entitled And the Stupid Women Shall Lead--and Lead Every Good Individual into Shit, Driven on by Communism, Feminism, and Defective Female Beliefs and Little-Girl Thinking, which can be reached through this Stupid Women link. And here are other documents--A Review of What Television Controlled by Socialists and Communists Worked to Sell as Truth in Relation to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump Impeachment (at Impeachment) and T.H.A.T. Special Edition--The First Helicopter-based Traffic Reporters on Radio for the Detroit area of Michigan (at Helicopter Traffic).
Hey, again! Maybe CBS-TV could air made-for-TV movies or TV movies that were made in the early days of such movies--from 1964 to about 1980--such movies were likeable, and, in mass, they are not being see today. Even regular television stations are not airing such movies, but if CBS-TV gives up the 11:30 p.m. slot on weekdays, maybe some syndicator will persuade studios to make those old television movies available for syndication again.
Looking at the Movies--this is a regular feature of Television History and Trivia documents, and it gives viewing suggestions about movies, and those are movies that were aired on television stations in the Detroit area in the early days of broadcast television in Detroit, and, specifically, it covers about the first five years of broadcasting for a particular television station.
Remember: The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan was a television show that was produced across the pond and shown on CBS-TV in the late 1960s, and I urge you to find The Prisoner on DVD, maybe from a library, and watch it, and you should show it--all the episodes--to teenagers, or buy it as a present for teenagers.
Stay well!Vic
P.S.: You are urged to see my document entitled One of "The Rules of Man"--A Rule About Health Care that No Politician May Supersede with Law, which can be reached through this Rule1 link. I have deduced that all the Democrats and most Republicans support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and have no intention of killing it, though it should be killed for violating, for one, "The Rules of Man." For example, Republicans Jeb Bush and Chris Christie support the rotten law, and that is one reason that I define them as stupid men and not men who are good enough--in this day and age--to be the U.S. President. I note that the "mandate"--which forces everyone to buy government-approved health-care insurance--violates one of "The Rules of Man," and it is a rule that is attacked in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Anyone who supports the "mandate" is not a good enough person or a smart enough person to be the U.S. president--the mandate is "enslavism," and the "mandate" allows government people--who are often usually bad people, as history shows--decide what health care a person can get, and that is bad.
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