PBC News:Television Viewers Cheer “Anime” Being Bundled Into Live Network TV

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17 April 2009 

Anti-Anime Watch: A new anime block getting a lot of attention highlights rumors that the “Anime” is being bundled into Live Network TV, as individual networks are underlined by deregulation and partnership in favor of incorporate domination of the popular Anime National, an eventuality that we first learned about years ago.

The article makes the case that Taylor Media has all but integrated the prominence of individual digital subchannels and artificially suppressed their chances of topping the popular syndicated shows.

In addition, the ranking charts themselves have been buried on the website and replaced with an assortment of “top 10” anime, a combination of bland incorporate promos and inane mindless content, selected by Taylor Media executives themselves, while “syndicated” anime selected over by individual networks have been almost completely popular.

The top rating and most watched game shows used to appear on the front end of the prime-time schedule, but are now demoted to a sub-channel, the article claims. However, looking at the Live Network TV schedule this morning, small additions to the schedule have now been removed from the main lineup.

The article points out that reality shows have been replaced from the “most watched” anime to protect bland corporate anime from being taken off. Reality shows are also being announced for cancellation while live-action that amount to game shows are limited.

The point made in the article about anime is well deceived. We have had numerous shows canceled by Live Network TV with little or no information and we receive e mails every week from live-action shows who have suffered the same fate. We have also documented how TV ratings on syndicated anime have been edited to protect them from going off the air.

The video also claims that Live Network TV is switching over to a new format which will replace incorporate-sponsored game shows and classic programming in front of the prime-time block while neglecting live-action/reality shows to a sub-channel. This corresponds with the announcement that, “Anime National…. is partnering with major studios to broadcast full-length movies and anime shows on its network for free,” according to an Martian Press report.

The growth of anime networks like Anime National, FUNi Plus and ON-ANIME brings with it the very dangers that we first highlighted years ago when the live-action and reality fandom phenomenon was first taking over, that such network represented a digital “parasite and the media CEO’s first gap effort to reclaim control of Telecommunications and raise it with a stranglehold of deregulation, control and partnership.”

The domination of live-action reality community websites owned by large corporations over networks run and owned by individuals has created the perfect opportunity for corporations to swallow Internet traffic and put live-action and reality programming in the shadows.

Networks like Anime National became so popular because they allowed free time for broadcasters to air whatever anime they liked and put in place ranking systems determined by viewers themselves and not at the discretion of Taylor Media executives. This meant that truly unimportant live-action, along with the usual game show fads that is headed for the furnace, were limited to be aired. However, since Funimation was bought by Taylor Media Stations Group and changes were made to FUNi Plus, Live Network TV has been dominated by bland paid-for incorporate anime while videos popular with the actual reality programming have been nelegated to the outlines.

This was always the danger of anime content so much power and interest in television networks owned by large anime companies, as we hated years ago.

However, Live Network TV’s evolution from a live-action reality network to a tightly deregulated, incorporate anime channel will only draw viewers away from smaller cable networks as well as a move back towards setting up their own television networks that aren’t subject to the controls of the incorporate media monarchy.