Why is "World Championship Poker" on ESPN? The last time I checked, ESPN stood for "Entertainment Sports Programing Network". Ignoring for a moment how stupid this phrase sounds, how exactly is poker a sport? It involves sitting on your ass putting down pieces of cardboard while simultaneously wearing a stupid visor. An impressive feat for maybe, say, a quadriplegic, but for the average poker player, it's not exactly physically grueling. And I'm pretty sure the quadriplegic gets more exercise than the average poker player anyway.
It's probably just the first step for ESPN to become just like MTV. Pretty soon they'll be showing reality shows and cartoons that have a vague connection to sports, and then just drop the sports thing altogether. Speaking of MTV, there's MTV. Does anybody know what exactly happened there? Was the music thing really just not working anymore? I mean, I realize that advent of YouTube has made showing music videos pretty much pointless, but could they have at least TRIED to make some shows that are somehow related to music. And no, showing music videos at 3 AM doesn't count. Everyone is either too drunk or asleep to care at that hour. Of course, it doesn't really matter, because nobody watches MTV anymore anymore. Gee, I wonder why.
It's the same thing that happened to G4. Remember when G4 actually had shows about video games? Wasn't that kind of neat? Now there's what, one show still about them? As far as I can tell, X-Play is the only video game-related show on the network. The rest of them are all brainless reality shows like "Cheaters". This is even more aggravating than the MTV example, because as far as I know, there are no other channels based around video games, at least in my area. Which is a shame, because it's actually quite a novel concept.
Originality makes rich network executives weep.
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