http://www.tvinsider.com/article/78528/h2-viewers-arent-happy-about-viceland-taking-over-their-channel/ posted:

H2 Viewers Aren't Happy About Viceland Taking Over Their Channel

H2 viewers encountered quite a rude awakening over the past week.

Fans expecting to see shows like Ancient Aliens and Modern Marvels instead stumbled across a new crop of series with titles such as Balls Deep, F*ck That’s Delicious and Weediquette.

Nope, it’s not your father’s secondary History Channel anymore. Viceland, the new youth-skewing 24-hour cable channel from Vice Media and A+E Networks, replaced H2 on February 29. And although both media coverage and A+E trumpeted the news for weeks leading up to the switch, it still caught several audience members off guard.

“The only reason I didn’t get rid of cable was because of the H2 network,” one reader posted on Channel Guide’s website, which has now clocked more than 1,000 comments about the flip (many of them vulgar). “The new change is horrible. I now can leave cable and go back to streaming what I want.”

Another reader added: “The sad truth is that we are no longer the demographic to which the TV stations are marketing. They believe the under-30 crowd will produce the marketing dollars. Prepare for more of the same.”

An A+E Networks insider said the company was receiving the same volume of phone calls it gets from any show cancellation. “It’s pretty minimal,” he said. “We were pretty proactive about telling fans what was happening and where the programming would be available.”

And on the flip side, some reaction on Viceland's Facebook page has been positive to the new channel: "I just stumbled upon this TV channel recently and i had never even heard of it, but now i am addicted to it," wrote one poster. "I love all the variety it has and the different cultures. It truly is different and i like it a lot so far. Balls Deep is my favorite one so far. Viceland is one of my new favorite channels." Added another, about Ellen Page's new show Gaycation: "Incredible! So refreshing to watch something hard hitting & real. The interviewing, subject matter is just so touching & heartfelt."

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

It's gonna be odd when in the near future the only cable channels anyone will pay for are bizarre niche ones.

Nooner posted:

cable more like GAYble, just get the 'flix and hulu gently caress

Backweb posted:

Nah you gotta get the bundle because that's how major telecoms work.

I miss the old quality History Channel programming from pre-2006 or so, but I hope this is A&E sounding its own death knell. Death to cable.

chemtrail huffer posted:

as a millennial, I like to spend my marketing dollars on my favorite TV show Balls Deep

Mega64 posted:

Can't you just watch documentaries on Netflix or YouTube instead?

All cable is good for anymore is giving content for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon to stream.

Mega64 posted:

If you really wanted to hear the same old poo poo about World War 2 that's been repeated a thousand times by now I'm sure there's some mumble gently caress spouting twenty hours of poo poo about it on YouTube or some random podcast or something.

And why the gently caress are people so obsessed with WW2 anyway, there's like a thousand other wars that happened/are happening, shut up about you old dead war already.

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And on the flip side, some reaction on Viceland's Facebook page has been positive to the new channel: "I just stumbled upon this TV channel recently and i had never even heard of it, but now i am addicted to it," wrote one poster. "I love all the variety it has and the different cultures. It truly is different and i like it a lot so far. Balls Deep is my favorite one so far. Viceland is one of my new favorite channels."

Mega64 posted:

And why the gently caress are people so obsessed with WW2 anyway, there's like a thousand other wars that happened/are happening, shut up about you old dead war already.

Niwrad posted:

An exec thought it was smart to create a cable network for people under 30 when people under 30 don't have cable.

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Thus far, though, Viceland doesn’t seem to be bringing anyone to TV. The average daily viewership of the channel over its first three weeks is a massive 77 percent lower than H2’s viewership over the last three weeks of its existence, according to Rentrak data obtained by International Business Times. And if you think the percentage is bad, the raw numbers are worse: H2 averaged a little over 241,000 viewers a day during that time period. Viceland? Just over 55,000. Viceland’s first week averaged around 60,400 viewers a day.

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ClamdestineBoyster posted:

drat no more hitler channel.

raditts posted:

Of all the channels to bemoan the death of cable, you pick loving H2

Backweb posted:

Nah you gotta get the bundle because that's how major telecoms work.

raditts posted:

Of all the channels to bemoan the death of cable, you pick loving H2

Rahu posted:

Was there anything good on H2? I just remember that History is the Hitler/Aliens channel and I'm not sure if H2 was the same.

WAMPA_STOMPA posted:

balls deep is actually good content

Niwrad posted:

Three Olives posted:

It's funny because they think us cord cutting millennials want to subscribe to TV again.

I can wait to IPO my company, it's like Twitter but for pagers!

Jolo posted:

I still can't believe there's a show called Balls Deep. I honestly thought this was an April Fools joke at first read because of Balls Deep and Gaycation. Getting a show called Balls Deep on TV is crazy.