Paramount Network

[Hawkee]

Mom and I discovered that we now get Paramount Network and from what we saw of Paramount Network they show Cops and Friends and the first movies that Paramount Network has aired are Pitch Perfect and 27 Dresses. But surprisingly the Paramount Network still has a Spike TV logo and no Paramount Network logo has been made yet. I think Paramount Network will be successful and will add more popular shows in the future
What do you think of Paramount Network?
Bestie

[TV Shows Fan]

The Paramount Network isn't launching until this Thursday. So it's still Spike TV right now.

[AMackII]

Spike TV will be gone after tonight in favor of Paramount Network’s tomorrow premiere because the Spike channel been around since 2003. Prior to Spike, TNN had a long run when it had a country, Nashville format from its March 1983 debut until September 2000 when it transitoned to the National format where it lasted for 3 years.

[stevea]

Does anyone have a schedule? The TV Guide still shows Spike, and the programming looks the same.

[TKMetal]

No real changes.

[factsoflife]

Paramount officially launches on Thursday and there are no major programming changes as of yet. They have a few original programming launching in primetime later this year including a much-anticipated mini-series called Waco, a reboot of the movie Heathers and American Woman starring Alicia Silverstone and produced by Kyle Richards from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

[TMC]

Spike TV’s Twitter account is spewing profanity, going “rogue” on the cable network's final day
“I gave my entire staff empty gift cards as parting gifts because f*ck them and their joy,” Spike TV’s Twitter account tweeted as part of a PR stunt. Spike TV transforms into Paramount TV on Thursday.

[tenter]

I noticed during N@N credits, there has been most advertisements about Paramount network and Lip Sync Battles airing on Paramount network. Has any other Viacom networks like TVLand advertised Paramount network change? I haven't yet watched other Viacom networks for this

[Regulus]

Since this is a Viacom(mie) network if this was a race horse I'd bet $2.00 to Tank (This is what you'd do to bet the nag for LAST place!).

[TMC]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/a...n-costner.html

The successor to Spike TV “went in hard” to lure Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston’s TV show that went to Apple, but those A-listers didn’t want to have anything to do with a cable network with commercials. Still, Paramount Network’s president of development, Keith Cox, says his cable network could offer more attention and care than places like Netflix. “You know, Netflix, they drop a show a week — Naomi Watts had a show,” he said, referring to Gypsy, “and I was thinking, oh my God, if I had Naomi Watts, that would be huge for us. For them, it came and went. Poof, gone.” Cox added: “We’re going to curate our shows like a museum. We are going to pick really beautiful pieces, but we’re not going to just pile all kinds of stuff in here.”

Paramount Network’s goal is to appeal to viewers in Middle America
In fact, Middle America is in the Paramount Network’s DNA, since it originated as The Nashville Network. “I think what we look at the strength of where our (cable operator) affiliates are, (and we have) a lot of strength in the South and the Midwest,” says Paramount Network president Kevin Kay. “Not necessarily as much a New York or L.A. [base]. From a programming standpoint a lot of other networks have that New York/L.A. thing covered. When we look at something like Yellowstone, which takes place in Montana and Utah, that feels like big blue sky, very different, something you haven’t seen on TV in a long time. Not to say it isn’t a dark show, but it’s a little brighter and a bit more blue sky than some of the things that are on premium cable TV now.”

[mets82]

The Paramount Network seems to be more of the same. It won't be any different than MTV etc. and the other Viacom channels. Again, maybe I'm not understanding the article.

[MrCleveland]

I saw that Spike became Paramount Network when my old man had a bad night at a jam nite (The leader of this has his wife who's a complete **** talk to everyone and my old man barked at her...long story)...

TV has gotten TOO corporate now...they're desperate since they can't keep the audience they had...but look at movies between 1945 and 1975...that was a slump, but they came-back because of the blockbuster movie!

I don't have the solution, but if Paramount was smart...they should sandwich their blockbuster franchises with a rare gem...

Example...Nickelodeon has a Spongebob ep, then Harvey Beaks, and a Fairly Oddparents show there...it may not work at first, but it could work as a bumper!

[bgva]

Originally Posted by MrCleveland

TV has gotten TOO corporate now...they're desperate since they can't keep the audience they had...

Agreed. And cord-cutters are only gonna make it worse. It would take a lot for me to ever go back to cable. Getting the corporations out of the front offices would be a start...go back to how simple it was in the 80s and 90s.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by bgva

Agreed. And cord-cutters are only gonna make it worse. It would take a lot for me to ever go back to cable. Getting the corporations out of the front offices would be a start...go back to how simple it was in the 80s and 90s.

Cable TV started out as CaTV, which stood for Community Antenna TV. Basically a small-scale shared antenna which could pick up faraway stations. Example: if you basically watched West Palm Beach, FL TV, now you could get Miami stations, also. And, it was reasonably priced. And you didn't have fees changed by TV stations just for cable to carry their signal. Now, cable TV is TOTALLY (and, I might add, hopelessly) out of control. Where you get TONS of channels, only a fraction of which any subscriber watches. Their base of subscribers continues to plummet--they are pricing themselves out of existence. And there's no rescuing it--as they lose more subscribers, they charge more and more.

I might add: IF some enterprising cable company decided to do an Ala Carte setup of channels, so you could subscribe to only what you wanted (which is probably technically possible now), they might have a chance. But I don't see that happening.

[Regulus]

Originally Posted by stevea

Cable TV started out as CaTV, which stood for Community Antenna TV. Basically a small-scale shared antenna which could pick up faraway stations. Example: if you basically watched West Palm Beach, FL TV, now you could get Miami stations, also. And, it was reasonably priced. And you didn't have fees changed by TV stations just for cable to carry their signal. Now, cable TV is TOTALLY (and, I might add, hopelessly) out of control. Where you get TONS of channels, only a fraction of which any subscriber watches. Their base of subscribers continues to plummet--they are pricing themselves out of existence. And there's no rescuing it--as they lose more subscribers, they charge more and more.

I might add: IF some enterprising cable company decided to do an Ala Carte setup of channels, so you could subscribe to only what you wanted (which is probably technically possible now), they might have a chance. But I don't see that happening.

Back in the 1960s when I was a child my grandparents owned a small resort near Oscoda, Michigan on the shore of Lake Huron. They had a 50-foot tall antenna attached to their TV set, which picked up a massive variety of channels. An NBC Station based in Saginaw, Michigan and an ABC Station based in Alpena, Michigan. In 1969 they got Cable TV, and they now had access to all four broadcast networks (five if you counted CBC) half a dozen independent stations and a "Weather Channel" which consisted of a thermometer, a barometer, a wind gauge and a clock which was panned by a camera. In 1974 the cable station made national news when some high school students broke into the cable station and covered the dials with centerfolds from skin mags with a caption "The Class of '74 Proudly Presents". A couple of years later things changed BIG with the addition of a new channel, Home Box Office which featured a couch potato's holy grail, uncut movies with NO COMMERCIALS. Us city slickers envied those who lived in the boonies. In 1980 things changed, and when my town (Redford, Michigan got Cable in 1980 I was like a child on Christmas Morning. Oh Boy! 28 Channels, ALL MINE! For $22.00 a month you got basic with three "Premium" (HBO, Showtime and The Movie Channel) Channels. A week after getting cable I threw a "Cable TV Party" at my house, the highlight was CEREMONIOUSLY tuning off a Presidential News Conference and switching to HBO to watch a movie. Fun times for sure, alas, It would not last. 25 years later I questioned WHY was I paying $60.00 a month to watch a bunch of schlock programming infested with 18-20 minutes of commercials per hour. A couple of years later I decided enough was enough, and I cancelled my subscription. It's cheaper for me to purchase programming via home video, and there are no commercials to have to cope with. I have no plans to return to cable, I simply don't need it anymore.