There was a time when if the preview channel was showing a week of TechTV I’d try to record as much of it as I could. When I’d visit my brother in South Dakota it was the only thing I’d want to watch on TV. I was one month away from buying digital cable so I could have this amazing network on my TV whenever I wanted it. Thats right, I was going to spend money to see this network. In fact, I bet I would have bought things shown on there and been swayed by the advertising that was wedged between the good bits. It was literally the only thing good on TV.
Then things broke down. Comcast bought TechTV and merged it with their G4 video gamming network. Overnight it went from being a network for geeks and technical people to a network for gamers and geek posers. Once again, the all knowing suits of Hollywood have taken what was once near perfect and castrated it. The golden goose has been killed. Read it from a man that went from a lowly intern to an associate producer, and then just another victim of the G4/TechTV layoff.