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    Facebook’s Vast Wasteland

    Infinite channels but nothing on.
    by Charlie Warzel Nov 11, 2021 9 Minuten
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    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about programming dead zones on TV. I distinctly remember being sick and home from school in the early aughts and lying on the couch aimlessly trying to find something, anything, to watch on TV. All those channels and nothing on.

    There was plenty of popular stuff on in the middle of the day (soap operas are an obvious example, and also everything from Ellen to Dr. Phil to Jerry Springer), but I am not sure you’d classify it as high-quality content. Between the morning shows and prime time and the local news, you had a lot of self-aware melodrama, vapid celebrity news, feel-good interview programs, and manufactured conflict (see again: Jerry Springer). Daytime TV is engineered, in part, to kill time and accompany the mundane tasks of home life. I’d classify the bulk of the content as emotionally stimulating, somewhat easy to produce in high volume, and easy on the brain.

    The other dead zone that comes to mind is that time after about 1 o’clock in the morning, when the late shows are over and live sports have wrapped up. On the basic TV channels, you’re getting straight infomercials or very strange, local-TV, semi-sponsored travel programming. In the early 2000s, somehow managed toReal World/Road Rules Challenge

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