I don't see it as any great loss, personally - I'll most likely never watch OWN, but then, I never watch Discovery Health any more either. Apart from reruns of Paramedics (and I've seen all of those), there was nothing on there that interested me last time I looked. It had joined The So-Called Learning Channel on the "you're not fulfilling your part of the social contract if you're not pairing off and getting busy" bandwagon - TLC was wall-to-wall shows about dating and getting married, and DHC seemed to be mostly shows about babies. Gone were the days when a person surfing channels might be caught unawares by horrifying video of knee surgery in progress on The Operation.
Actually, that might not have been an entirely bad thing, now that I think about it. :)
Admittedly, things might have changed since then - I haven't put my head in that particular door for several years now, so disturbed was I by the direction I saw things taking last time I checked. Still, I can think of more jarring transformations undergone by cable channels. The Nashville Network's bizarre metamorphosis into Spike TV ("The Anti-Lifetime") springs to mind...
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Date: 2008-01-18 05:35 pm (UTC)Actually, that might not have been an entirely bad thing, now that I think about it. :)
Admittedly, things might have changed since then - I haven't put my head in that particular door for several years now, so disturbed was I by the direction I saw things taking last time I checked. Still, I can think of more jarring transformations undergone by cable channels. The Nashville Network's bizarre metamorphosis into Spike TV ("The Anti-Lifetime") springs to mind...