Talk:G4techTV

What does "The merger is now seen to be non-existent, as the name changed back to G4" mean? If the merger took place then it can hardly be non-existent. Does it mean "The so-called merger was in fact a takeover"? Richard Pinch 06:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Merging
Do we need to merge G4 (television) and TechTV into G4TechTV? OR do we let them be?(Please Respond here to keep it in one place. Ilyanep 17:53, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh come on, someone must care. Ilyanep 23:54, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * You're killing meIlyanep (Talk) 01:36, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * I've never seen either channel, but I would say they should not be merged. G4 was an entity unto itself for a time, so it deserves an article to itself - just as, say, banks that are now part of merged super-banks are worthy of articles. IMHO, of course. - DavidWBrooks 01:39, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed, less work for me too :) Ilyanep (Talk) 23:44, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * You need to leave each channel as it's own entry on this website even if one of them no longer exists. In all reality, each network (TechTV, G4techTV, G4TV) are each separate of each other and consisted of different points of their programs and different ownership overall. Each channel was it's own, TechTV especially, and they all should keep their individual pages to keep their information correct instead of a sloppy merge in one article. Chris 22:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Since G4techTV no longer officially exists--having reverted its name to just G4--I'd suggest making G4 the main entry and redirecting to it from G4techTV. After all, G4techTV turns out to only be a temporary entity. --JButler 11:05, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

G4TechTV vs. G4techTV
I've been using "G4TechTV" for a while now, but after examining the G4techTV website, it seems that G4techTV, with the first 't' lowercase, is the official name. Should this be fixed in articles referring to G4techTV? - MattTM 21:44, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I really have no clue, but it seems to me that G4TechTV would be more correct, but if lowercase is if how they use it it may make sense to use it that way. Ilyanep (Talk) 05:05, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * G4TechTV seems more correct to me as well. I've seen both versions used in articles.  I haven't decided what to do yet, but it doesn't look like there's enough interest in the G4TechTV/G4techTV articles to generate any more responses here.  If no one objects, I'll go around and clean up all of the articles referring to it as G4TechTV (though they really should've named it that; I think it looks much better). A Google search also indicates that all of the official G4techTV sites use it in that form. - MattTM 08:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * It's a shame that fewer people are interested in this article than the TechTV one. You sure won't find an objection from me. Ilyanep (Talk) 14:44, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Criticism section?
I believe that considering how many feel G4 had bought out TechTV to replace them (because they did, indeed, replace them). -- A Link to the Past 03:21, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

I was one of the few Comcast Customers Who actully Had Tech-Tv.. And I had only heard about G4 when the merger was anounced... and, after seeing the resalts... I think Tech-Tv was better without mergeing... Tech-Tv was great, It was where you went too learn bout computers, and how to work them, they even had a show called CALL FOR HELP , in which you could do just that, and they would help you. It was great, and I learned alot from it, than again, alot of things I know about computers I learnd from Tech-Tv. Than G4 came in to play to mearge with Tech-Tv, now.. Im Ok with Videogames... ( Im a Gamer..WOOT.. Go Halo :-) ) but Tech-Tv had (and it is still on the now called G4techTV) a show with video games alrety, ant it was entertaning.. and made ya laugh form time to time, Tech-Tv Made Learning Entertaneing.... That Right there is a wow... The Only shows thatI Have Really Actully Like on G4 (as I know it.. G4techTv ) Is a show that talks about the history of videogame Icons...thats it... I still like the surviveing Tech-Tv shows tho....O WHY DID THEY HAVE TO MEARGE.... and there are Many People Who Agree With Me...Thats why theres so many Pations to Bring Back Tech-Tv:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Bring+Back+TechTv+


 * Dude they changed it to G4 now. And dropped all the good shows then added their crappy advertising to everything. We cancelled our subscription to a larger TV package because we only had it due to TechTV for the most part. &mdash; Il&gamma;&alpha;&eta;&epsilon;&rho;   (T&alpha;l&kappa;) '' 16:51, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Definitely separate
TechTV before the merger was actually wildly popular, with G4 barely being worth mention in the few areas where people could get them both. G4 seemed to be run by a bunch of marketing geeks trying to "tap into the gamer market" where TechTV was apparently run by actual gamer geeks. This huge difference in operational styles stood out very clearly during and immediately after the merger, as most of the original TechTV staff still on board start bailing in droves with complaint after complaint after complaint about the way G4 management was treating everyone and ordering them around. Comcast swore up and down that it was to be a merger, but it was frankly just a buyout, where G4 dropped TechTV's least popular shows, and then promptly began running TechTV's most popular shows right into the ground.

Basically, Comcast appeared to demonstrate a complete lack of clue by running a lame channel, and then buying a good channel and turning it over to the idiots who ran the lame channel, only to watch their acquisition immediately begin sucking for the same reasons. It would be a great disservice to the memory of a truly good channel (TechTV) to merge even it's WP entry with that of G4.

Shows
The list of shows needs to be changed. Only about 2 of those shows are on anymore, only X-Play is on that appplies to video games and Cheat. So that needs to be fixed.