Defunct TV Channels | Discontinued Nostalgia #1

I feel like if you do a "Discontinued Cable Networks 2," G4 has to be on that list. It managed to be discontinued in 2011 after stagnation, get a nostalgia-fueled revival in 2020/21, only to be discontinued and shuttered again a year later.

One of the biggest takeaways from this video for me was finding out that Bravo Tv (the channel that my mom watches the real housewives) used to be a fine arts channel. Never in a million years would I have thought that would be the channel's origin story XD

Ahhh yes 1000 ways to die, the show that straight up made me question life at a young age 😂

On the subject of discontinued channels, I'd suggest you discuss Hub Network. It was basically Discovery's attempt to compete with the big three kid's cable channels, and I was a huge fan of it back when it was on. My two favorite shows from there have to be Littlest Pet Shop and Twisted Whiskers. I remember being so disappointed when they changed it into Discovery Family. That whole cool Frutiger Aero vibe Hub had just vanished into thin air to make way for a more generic and bland feel. The worst part was when Hub's website got rebranded too. All the games were reduced to just a TV schedule. Looking back now, I think we should've taken that as a warning. Because a whole decade later, that same guy who downgraded Hub would go on to greatly shank the parts of Warner Bros that people actually loved. I guess you can say that Discovery just hates fun. 🤷‍♀️

Fun fact: Spike still exists, They use the Spike name as their copyright holder and on Pluto TV, their alias for their cable channel is “Paramount Network,” although both channels are practically the same.

Ted Turner was the media mogul from Atlanta, Georgia who founded WTBS 17, the TBS Superstation, CNN and Cartoon Network. He contributed greatly to the rise of cable TV in the 1980s and the 1990s with his innovation, plus he created the environmental superhero, Captain Planet.

Part 2 NEEDS to have Chiller! I was exposed to horrors beyond a 3rd grader's comprehension back in the day

0:43 Vortex is notable for being the end of Saturday morning cartoons on broadcast television after 60 years. I woke up one morning to watch a new episode of Yugioh Zexal summer 2014 and had no idea it was the end of an era that began in the 1950s.

Honestly love this series concept...defunct products and channels and such is a under looked concept imo

Noggin needs to be covered at some point. I know it's "technically" Nick Jr., but Noggin had a totally different feel and presentation. Nick Jr. has been playing it safe with content and basically being a further sensitized Nickelodeon, with the only holdover show being Max and Ruby. Noggin, however, seemed a lot more willing to go with the flow and be more creative, following the minds of kids (especially those with AD/HD like myself) a lot more, going all over the place, from Pingu to Jack's Great Big Music House (my favorite) to Oobi. Kids TV is REALLY different without a channel or even a programming block presented quite like Noggin anymore. Edit: OH GOD I loved Game Lounge. Specifically Monopoly and Bowling. I can hear the bit-crushed ball rolling down the alley now. Thanks for that lol. I still use the DirecTV channel numbers to remember certain networks and area codes that aren't normally in my phone.

MXC was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid ironically when Spike labels its channel "being for men." Me and my grandmother would always watch it when an episode aired. It was quite hilarious.

Interesting to note is Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood started off on WGBH a Pittsburgh based public television station, before moving to NET then PBS. Mr. Rogers was a Pittsburgh native so that made sense he started locally and became one of the greatest national treasure of all time.

I'm 62 and am a native New Yorker. Channel 13 WNET was on in NYC as far as I can remember. That would be late 1964.

29:05 "'Quiet On Set' required us to change the ending." Awesome. We need that because of Dan's picky pickled ass.

20:12 Spike TV is still there, but under the ownership of Paramount. Therefore, it is currently named the Paramount Network.

The comedy channel will always be Comedy Central to me. And yes, I watched that channel with all programs mentioned

The concept of this piece is amazing - well done. As a soon-to-be-60, I was in the thick of the cable "boom" 40 years ago. Slowly, I broke free of cable television, and am now just internet based. However, many of these shows and networks broke in to the mainstream, populace spectrum, if they became popular...or notorious. I'm also old enough to not have known that a lot of this stuff wasn't out there anymore. So...thanks!

Fred Rogers was HARD CORE. 👊 I miss VH-1 when they played jazz videos. I miss VH-1 Classic. I currently avoid every MTV channel because they have forgotten what the M means in MTV. 😡🤬

Oh god you unlocked a forgotten memory when it comes to GSN Game Lounge.

Please continue this series. This was a great watch.