I was channel surfing today, and I saw Family Ties on a channel. I thought, “Wait, wasn’t that show, like from the eighties? What’s it doing on television?*"” So I looked at what channel it was on, and it was a channel called “The Hub”.
Since my family recently switched Cable providers, I just shrugged, and thought it was a new channel. Later, though, I channel surfed again, and saw The Wonder Years, a show from the nineties, on that same channel. I got slightly suspicious. What channel syndicates two old shows on the elusive side? I decided to Wikipedia it, and turns out…
… The Hub is the new Discovery Kids.
Apparently, Hasbro (The toy company) owned half of Discovery Kids and somehow manipulated FCC’s E/I regulations and crap, and now there’s a channel devoted to some stuff from the eighties and nineties, and some stuff from the old Discovery Kids.
I have mixed reactions. I used to occasionally sometimes (Redundancy intended) that channel, and I kinda liked Trading Spaces: Boys VS Girls and Endurance. But then they just got more gross out shows and I tuned out. And a toy company running a channel seems screwed up. Marketing at its worst?
But then again, if fans of retro shows are happy, and kids could also watch those shows, then I guess it’s a win-win-ish deal. Sadly, I don’t think I have time for more shows to watch. :(
And ugh, this post reminds me of my old posts. Like, my 2009 ones. :\
* I’m not saying it’s unworthy for television. I was just shocked that something from the eighties would be on TV and not on nick@nite or TV Land.
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