Suspended Thoughts

I have been thinking lately… Was the death of TechTV (actually the being bought out by G4 and having pretty much everyone fired) a good thing for the geek community?

It would be nice to still have geeks on broadcast TV, but think about all of the stuff that probably wouldn’t be around if TechTV gave them a schedule or hours to work or whatever.

Here are the people that used to work at TechTV according to Wikipedia: Leo Laporte, Kate Botello, Patrick Norton, Chris Pirillo, John C. Dvorak, Adam Sessler, Kevin Rose, Martin Sargent, Morgan Webb, James Kim, Sumi Das, Stephanie Siemiller, Erica Hill, Victoria Recano, and Jim Louderback. The only people remaining from that list still working at G4 are Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb.

It’s TWiT (Leo Laporte), live.pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo), dvorak.org/blog and Cranky Geeks (John C. Dvorak), Diggnation (Kevin Rose), Revision3 (Jim Louderback), and more vs. a broadcast TV station.

I think TechTV would still be a cool thing to have around, don’t get me wrong. But looking at all of the things that probably wouldn’t be possible if those people still worked at TechTV makes me glad of the merger. I don’t like G4 at all, but I don’t watch very much TV, so that’s fine.

I think the internet is better than TV for distribution of content (I think everyone in their right mind agrees with me), especially for things like this. Geeky things.