GamersTV Approaches

I give this network 6 months to a year. While this may be something that some fringe hardcore gamers want, this is not going to make it. Networks (channels) is a very difficult business that requires a lot of money. This is an area where the theme is quite frankly weak. This is not something that has unlimited, fresh, long term playabilty. It will get old very quick.

How much tv do we actually watch? Can't speak for all but my viewing now is under an hour a day, and this certainly is not gonna make glue me to the screen. It ain't a bad idea, it just ain't for me. I rather be on the computer than watch TV, plain and simple.

It'd be sweet if directv picks this up

Arrggh, damn banner crashes!!! Anyway, I had posted that they did a lot of taping at GDC and interviewed my bosses a couple of times. I hope they start carrying it in Canada because all we really have right now is Electric Playground.

this is gona be just awsome i love shows like extended play on tech tv so this will be my kinda thing, whi knows i might start watching tv again =P

I'd watch t his if I had cable/a TV near my computer. I mean, gamespot's video reviews are pretty cool sometimes...

Ohhhh, yyaaaayy...Now I can turn on my tv and WATCH COUNTERSTRIKE! Or I could just join a server, get killed by a CHEATER, and watch the game for 4 minutes while some dickhead hides in a corner jerking off! wewt.....And reviews! Wow! Like I can't go pickup a copy of PCGamer or go scan some game review sites...
What this channel has to offer, most of us can already get quite easily, the only difference is that we won't have some Carson Daly wannabee spouting off the information.

If they show 30 minutes of a fag running around in EQ I'm gonna go slit all their throats >:|

I want my ShackTV!

Seriously, shouldn't you be working a deal with these people, or maybe TechTV? That plastic cowboy hat is made for television. :)

I love how people posting on a GAMING WEBSITE MSGBOARD talk shit about 'dorks' and 'nerds' and how stupid it is to 'watch geeks playing games'. You'd sound just like some meat-head jocko-homo neanderthal from my high-school if I wasn't 100% confident you were a FUCKING NERD YOURSELF. I don't give a shit if you play football every morning before breakfast - if to you the idea of gaming = nerds then plz FUCK OFF OF THE GAMING WEBSITEs you fucking CHOWDERHEAD.
YEESH.

Now, this isn't necessarily a bad idea, this whole gaming-tv thing. You can find LOTS of gaming news daily - any bored office-worker can tell you that, so there will be news to cover. What it will require though, is some real help from developers and promoters of gaming; if they can get a consistent stream of preview information from dev's and some pro-gaming news that reflects the international gaming scene it would be something I'd watch. Shit I enjoy listening to this board bitch and moan and argue about what they do/don't prefer; it could work on tv as long as they treat the audience like it's solely made up of 12-15 year-olds. They know that there's people in this country spending absolute SHIT-LOADS of cash on games yearly, and that the bigge$t contributer$ are the 19-28yr-old sector. Cater to those people intelligently and there's an audience to be had. THat's the glass half-full; this is not necessarily a bad idea.

The glass half-empty is that doing this correctly will require subtlety and creativity as well as an initimate knowledge of the different gaming 'scenes' and their audiences, which would be fucking tough - this will likely fail.

They need a mapping tutorial version of i{Joy of Painting}i or something...that schedule is thin.

I would watch this channel without hesitation.

Too bad all I get is basic cable :|

If they had went down the path of an Entertaining channel which features games it might work. Theres a game channel here in europe and its boringest thing i can think of.

It could work if the shows were based around the personalities of the presenters. But how many game freaks are there who are enjoyable to watch on Tv. Steve is a possibility but we have no idea how good he is on tv.

As i said before, its a flawed idea from the outset.

They should have the ShackNews crew pair up with the SomethingAwful guys to do color-commentary for matches. I'd watch then, if only to see JeffK and Cliff Yablonski abuse everybody else.

'sup my hataz!!!!

so, am i the only tool who is actually interested in this channel?

i mean, compared to what is currently on TV, how can this suck any worse?

lemme see ....more stale cooking, shopping and crusty old b/w movies or this?

i take this....

holy shit! Whil "Wesly Crusher" Wheaton hosting their Arena show? now I HAVE to watch! xP

Any CS versus Q3 arguements could be interesting...

Replace CS and Q3 with whatever if needed/wanted.

What conglomerate s behind this channel? If it's one of the bigger ones it may last for a while but if it's independent it's proably not going to last for 3 months. I'm excited about it but I am concerned that there aren't enough gamers in the mainstream to watch it. Huuzaah!!

Will Wheaton is hosting the show called "Arena" HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHa

you know what would be cool shows with tutorials like how to make maps or make models with that legal version of Max we all own...

So uh, how do we know if this channel will be carried in our area? Right now I have Time Warner digital cable and all G4's website will let me do is write them asking them to carry it. Anyone got any info?

The guys from Spelletjes Garnaal need to be the hosts of something.

I don't give a rats ass about what games some celeb is playing. The only way I would even remotely become interested in Players is if Angelina Jolie was using the PS2 controller in a nontraditional way and wanted to demonstrate for the viewers at home.

Like you know, playing GTA3 using only her toes. WHAT?

so basicly its going to be shackES on tv?

This station will be

SHIT

There was (maybe still is) a gaming show here on canada on the station ytv.

it was horrible. Nothing is worse than watching a bunch of people try and talk like "gamers" about the latest, coolest games.

Shack commercials please

This channel would be good if I was in a hotel room somewhere far away from my computer and xbox, and anything else fun. and if there was no porn on.

wow all i need are to see "professional gamers" on tv talking about how good they are...

next on fox dorks watching dorks play video games.

Gee I can't wait for all the biased bull shit on action fps to come!!
YAY!!

Anyone know if Dishnetwork is gonna carry this channel?

Steve, is this the channel that you were going to do something on? I remember you mentioned it a few months back.

Who was the knobgobbler who decided that designing the entire site in Flash was a brilliant idea?

Well I just got a quick reply from them about G4 coming to Canada... Here it is.

So you want to see G4Â…. we want you to see it too! Unfortunately, it may be a little while until youÂ’re able to watch us in Canada, but donÂ’t fret, hereÂ’s a few things you can do to help it happen a bit sooner. Call Star Choice again and tell them you want G4. TheyÂ’ll need to know that G4 is a Comcast owned network based out of Los Angeles launching April, 24 2002. Another thing you can do is send that same information to Star Choice via email. You can get their email address off of their website or by calling them and asking for it. Keep an eye on our website (which just launched) and until then,

Watch What You Play

Robt. Juster
G4 Media