Welcome to Trough TV
 The Digital Dystopia brought to you by non-employee
shareholder influence, labor union influence,
and C-suite incompetence, since spring 2023.

Especially Netflix, who in late 2023 pivoted particularly drastically away from serving customers toward instead serving shareholders:

•  rescinded the founding "any device" policy by disabling Silverlight video, forcing millions of their oldest, most loyal customers on WinXP-Win8, OS X 10.4-10.10 and more to suffer either paying extra for additional Netflix hardware, or quitting;

•  further rescinded "any device" by disabling even current HTML5 video for more millions of customers on >3-year-old TVs, Blu-Ray players, game consoles, and set-top boxes, forcing them to suffer either paying extra for additional Netflix hardware, or quitting;

•  rescinded the founding "sharing is caring" subscription policy (reasonable…BUT THEN:)

•  rescinded the founding 1-stream-ad-free subscription, forcing millions of newly non-sharing customers and prospects (e.g., the increasing population of childless singles) to suffer either paying extra for unused Netflix streams, submitting to advertising for the former 1-stream-ad-free price, or quitting.

In Netflixes own 2024 Q1 [clarified] words:

"Our goals are to sustain healthy revenue growth [ mo' money ], expand our operating margin [ mo' money, ] and grow free cash flow [ mo' money ].  [ We no longer care about attracting more customers since we already saturated the entire planet Earth market at the good-value level, and there are as yet insufficient potential customers on the Moon or Mars.  So, increasing our future profit level above our current money-shower profit level is only enabled by developing new ways to decrease value to current customers — making them pay more for the same product. ]

[ And so, ] We’re focused on [ those ] financial metrics — and engagement (i.e. time spent) as our best proxy for customer satisfaction [ which we define as the maximum level of dissatisfaction above which invested customers quit, and which we know from Human Psych 101 is a MUCH lower value than needed to attract new customers into become invested ].  In our early days, when we had little revenue or profit, membership growth was a strong indicator of our future potential [ so we offered good value ].  But now we’re generating very substantial profit and free cash flow (FCF) [ thanks to the brilliantly effective customer-value-reduction strategies introduced last year by our dedicated shareholder-interest-focussed Board, so we no longer need concern ourselves or our shareholders with offering good value to those pesky customers ].  We are also developing new [ customer-value-reducing ] revenue streams like advertising and our extra member feature, so memberships are just one [ increasingly insignificant ] component of our growth.  In addition, as we’ve evolved [ the value-reduction of ] our pricing and plans from a single to multiple tiers with different price points depending on the country, each incremental paid membership has a very different [ increasingly insignificant ] business impact.  It’s why we stopped providing quarterly paid membership guidance in 2023 [ the declining growth of which looks bad ] and, starting next year with our Q1'25 earnings, we will stop reporting quarterly membership numbers and ARM [ Average Revenue per Member, our secret shareholder sauce, the explosion of which makes our customers look like suckers and our competitors look like bumbling incompetents ]."

And, there it is:  yet one more example of the public-voting-shareholder's power and proclivity to corrupt the business between provider and customer, for nothing but their own gain.  And thus, why public voting shares ought to be outlawed.  The only party deserving of any influence over anything going on between a supplier and a customer is the employee.  Employee-controlled businesses maximize value to the customer and employee; shareholder-controlled businesses minimize value to the customer and employee, the diametric opposite, exclusively to maximize value to themselves.  The public voting share renders its holder a middleman parasite, exsanguinating human quality-of-life and returning nothing non-negative.




kwiniec's escapist Farnsworth

for Saturday May 4 through Saturday May 11

( data by the Futon Critic | initial format by epguides.com | zap2it sucks after 2018 )

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I can't be in love if it's plastic
To live on my own just seems tragic
But we'll raise our swords high when our day comes
You thought it was gold, but it was bronze, so
Get here in time when our day comes
You thought it was gold, but it was bronze

—  Theme from BBC TV series "Snuff Box" © 2005 Matt Berry
     (a.k.a. "Berry & Fulcher's Comedy Bronze")
  




kwiniec's current favored Farnsworth



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Foundation  (Isaac Asimov — appl$)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds  (cbsp$)
The Orville  (dh$)
Loki  (Marvel — d$)
Futurama  (dh$)  ««  re-new summer 2023
The Sandman  (Neal Stephenson — nflx$)
Obi-Wan Kenobi  (Star Wars — d$)
Severance  (appl$)
Pantheon  (Ken Liu — ?wtf?)
Good Omens  (Sir Terry Pratchett / Neil Gaiman — amzn$)
The Old Man  (F/X)
The Rookie  (ABC)
The Mandalorian  (Star Wars — d$)
The Watch  (Sir Terry Pratchett — bbc$)
Better Than Us  (nflx$)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians  (Rick Riordan — d$)  ««  new winter 2023
Avatar  (nflx$)  ««  new spring 2024
Hit Monkey  (Marvel — dh$)
Star Trek: Lower Decks  (cbsp$)
Strange Planet  (appl$)  ««  new summer 2023
What If…?  (Marvel — d$)
Wednesday  (nflx$)
The Umbrella Academy  (nflx$)
Upload  (amzn$)
Mythic Quest  (appl$)
The Bear  (dh$)
Star Wars Tales  (d$)
The Legend of Vox Machina  (amzn$)
Invincible  (amzn$)
Bee & Puppycat  (nflx$)
Glitch Techs  (nflx$)
Trese  (nflx$)
Blood of Zeus  (nflx$)
Krapopolis  (Fox)  ««  new fall 2023
Curses!  (appl$)  ««  new fall 2023
Cupcake & Dino  (nflx$)
Maryland Farm & Harvest  (MPT)
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( and furthermore, recently deceased Farnsworth )






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abc 7 a's "funniest" h vids wwo disney / idol wwyd
cbs 13 60 Minutes jan 14 yellowstone / equalizer Tracker feb 11 yellowstone / csi vegas
nbc 11 nfl
fox 45 nfl o/t Simpsons
mar 24		 Krapopolis
feb 18		 t great
north		 grims
burg
cw 3 sullivan's crossing ? whose line
amzm$ Beacon 23 apr 7
dwire$ Mr. Birchum
may 12
~   R.I.P., Sunday Morning TV:   ~
•   Rodricks for Breakfast  —  October 24, 1999   •
•   Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser  —  March 22, 2002   •
•   The McLaughlin Group  —  December 25, 2020   •
~   Weeks were better when you demarked them.   ~

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abc 7 nfl / bachelor nfl / 20/20
cbs 13 neighbor-
-hood		 bob h.
abishola		 NCIS mar 25 ncis hi
nbc 11 agt / Am Ninja Warrior jun 3 deal island
fox 45 tmz amw
cw 3 ptfu m o
illusion		 w f
animals

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abc 7 Will Trent apr 30 The Rookie apr 30 The Good Doctor apr 30
cbs 13 ncis sydney / fbi raid t cage / fbi intl fbi mw
nbc 11 night
court		 extended
family		 la brea found
fox 45 name tune / cleaning lady Alert MPU mar 5
cw 3 inside nfl whose line
dsc 15 Master Distiller apr 2
d$ The Acolyte jun 4

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abc 7 nba /
conners		 nba /
not dead		 nba /
abbott elem		 nba /
?		 nba /
judge s harvey
cbs 13 survivor amazing race
nbc 11 chi med chi fire chi pd
fox 45 see voice / masked sing Animal
Control
mar 6		 we fam
fam guy
cw 3 walker sight unseen
pbs NOVA oct 4
amzn$ Fallout apr 10
appl$ The Big Door Prize apr 24
Dark Matter may 8

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abc 7 press luck / 911 grey anat sta 19
cbs 13 young
sheldon		 ghosts So Help Me Todd apr 11 Elsbeth apr 4
nbc 11 law & order law & order svu dateline / l & o oc
fox 45 hells kitchen / nl chef lego master / farmwer wife
cw 3 son of
a critch		 children ruin
everything		 whose
line		 joke
off
fx Wt Wrexham
may 2
nflx$ The Three-Body Problem mar 21
Dead Boy Detectives apr 25
cbsp$ Star Trek: Discovery apr 4
Evil may 23
amzn$ The Boys jun 13

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abc 7 shark tank 20/20
cbs 13 swat fire country Blue Bloods apr 5
nbc 11 password dateline
fox 45 "wrestling"
cw 3 penn & teller f u oct ? ?
dsc 15 Gold Rush WW mar 8
roku The Spiderwick Chronicles apr 19
d$ Doctor Who may 10

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cbs 13 48 hrs
nbc 11 cfb / dateline cfb / old snl
fox 45 cfb/nba
cw 3 movie
d$ Star Wars
Tales may 4
CARTOON
CARTOON
wednesdays  0300a 0330  kc  StarWarsTBBatch-5/1. XMen97-5/15
fridays     12001 1230  kc  FrightKrewe-5/31
            0900a 1000  33  MonstersAW*2-
saturdays   0300a 0330  kc  StarWarsTales-6/8
                a       nf  Molang KungFuPanda
                p           TheGrimmVariations-5/22
                        gg  Boruto OnePiece
sundays     1200a 0300  71  {toonami}  NinjaKamuiE Zom100 OnePiece*2 NarutoS DBZK
                                   NinjaKamuiJ
                            (no 5/12-5/19)
                            (5/26: MAwSuperman*2 OnePiece NarutoS DBZK
                                   DemonSlayerED)
                            (6/1:  MAwSuperman Zom100 OnePiece NarutoS DBZK
                                   NinajKami DemonSlayerED)
            0800p 0900  fo  Simpsons Krapopolis 

?                       kc  Ariel 5/? Ark 5/? HitMonkey 7/15 GalaxyHospital 2/?
                            Wytches ? BatmanCC '24 Stillwater ? BatFamily '24   
                            RoboForce ? DugDays ? Zenimation ?  Curses ? 
                            GremlinsSotM ? JadeArmor ? Noonan's ? Wolfboy ?
                            CreatureCommandos 9/? StarTrekLowerDecks 9/?.
                            Baymax ? WhatIf ? TheCroodsFT ? DragonsT9R ?
                            MZombies '24 InfinityTrain ? AngryBirds ? Digman ?
                            TBDiabolical ? StandingBy ? Invincible 11/?
                            GenLock ? CleopatraIS ? ScratTales ? Scavengers ?
                            Undone ? IAmGroot ? FiredOnMars ? Pantheon 10/?
                            AbominableATLIC ? Bewitched ? StarWarsVisions ?
                            EoWakanda ? AmongUs ? Megamind ?
                            JourneyttCotInternet ?
?                       nf  GodTroublesMe 5/? BloodOfZeus 5/? DemonSlayer 5/?
                            Wakfu ? StarTrekProdigy 5/? CptLaserhawk ? Gamera ?
                            HeMan ? DragonPrince '24 Scissor7 ? CastlevaniaN ?
                            MastersOTUniverse ? BlueEyeSamurai '25 SupaTeam4 ?
                            SuperCrooks ? ATD&Grimm ? DragonAge ? Zerocalcare3 ?
                            DanSpellbound ? MyDadBountyHunger ? MechCadets ? 
                            KirlianFreq ? DCSHeroGirls ? MagicTG ? Gostbusters ?
                            HeroesOfGooJitZu ? Robozuna ? DinotruxS ? ZakStorm ?
                            TheDeep ? SeisManos ? GlitchTechs ? RimbaRacer ?
                            Cupcake&Dino ? Rilakkuma ? SGRobotBros ?
                            LastKidsOE ? TrashTruck ? IdhunChron ? BharatHaiHum ?
                            Gormiti ? PowerPlayers  HauntedHouse ? StretchA ?
                            SpyKidsMC ? DinoGirl ? KishibeRohan ? Brave ?
                            PuffinRock ? JunjiIto ? TxfmrsBotbots ?
                            Terminator ? SkullIsland ? WOTHousehusband ?
                            CentaurWorld ? Gudetama ? BreadBarbershop ? Trese ?
                            DrSeuss ? LD&Robots ? TxfmrsCyberverse ? DotA:DB ?
                            Bee&Puppycat ? SamuraiRabbit ? UnicornAcademy ?
?                       71  {toonami} Uzumaki 5/? Bleach ? FireForce3 ?
                            ScavengersReign ? Lazarus ? UnicornWE ? FoodWars6 ?
                            SWOL:A:WOU ? SSSS.Dynazenon ? BlackCloverTM ?
                            MobPsycho2 ? GhostITShell ? MyHeroAcademia7 ?
                            Primal '24 7 ?
                            [dead: Shenmue Fena BlackLotus JojosBA ]
?                       71  TeenTitansGo 5/? TTG:TNBTS ?
                            PowerPuffGirls ? FostersHFIF ? FinalSpaceF ? 
?                       33  SDragonStriker '24 TheDoomies '24
                            TUYYeti '24  VikingSchool '24  
                            MZombies '24 YFNSpiderMan '24 MLadybug 10/?
?                       56  GoldenAxe 
?                       79  SpiderMan ?
?                       47  DevilMayCare ?

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bubble (3-year pandemic)

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coming

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R.I.P.


  It's not long now 'til it's over
Nothing much changed, we're just older
But if I see you again back in detox
Put my remains in my snuff-box…so
Get here in time when our day comes
You thought it was gold, but it was bronze

—  Theme from BBC TV series "Snuff Box" © 2005 Matt Berry
     (a.k.a. "Berry & Fulcher's Comedy Bronze")






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