TV is the New Reading

So … what’s on the other 150 channels?

I’d like to extend a quick “thank you” to the good people at FOX KXND-24 for letting their rebroadcast agreement with Midcontinent Communications lapse and stubbornly holding out for vast quantities of cash that don’t seem to be in any way forthcoming.

I was watching too much television as it was.

See, some of my favorite shows are on FOX, including “The Simpsons,” “24,” “Bones,” “Fringe,” “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Dollhouse” and – for another week or so anyway – “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.”

I indeed will miss them now that my FOX channel opens a Blue Screen of Death interrupted occasionally with a message from Midcontinent Communications president and CEO Pat McAdaragh.

But at least part of why they’re my favorites is that I can see them. In that I can’t see them any more, that’s fully 6½ hours a week I have now to do other things – including the watching of programming on the some 150 other channels I receive as a cable subscriber.

Not that it makes a great deal of difference, but were I to start getting the shakes from a lack of FOX programming, every single one of the shows I listed – and ever so many more – are available through hulu.com, which is incredibly convenient since I’m getting my high-speed Internet through my cable provider as well.

So keep up the good work. I have no doubt FOX 24’s advertisers will be able to better concentrate their resources with local media outlets the public can receive with no difficulty whatsoever – and what’s more, outlets broadcasting in high-definition – and these local affiliates can fade into the obscure curiosities they seem to be.

Now ... where’s that remote?

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