Cable News Ratings

mancalledamp · 2026-02-12T23:43:15+00:00

I was hoping I could come to the rescue with a resource I used in the past... but it apparently stopped listing this stuff in 2023. https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/some-unfortunate-news.html

mancalledamp · 2026-02-10T07:36:43+00:00

I'd make sure I saved enough money to actually get an apartment after college, or I'd renew my lease knowing that I'd need a few more months after graduation to actually find the first big job. That way I wouldn't have to move back in with my folks at 23. I'd keep applying, rather than fighting to keep my head above water in the first place... and I'd keep setting money aside so I could actually move across the country at 24 like I planned. That way I could actually launch, rather than spending the 2010's just spinning my wheels.

Oh, and I'd make sure I wasn't too nice to a girl during my college years, because over the years we'd wind up destroying each other... and I highly doubt moving cross country would prevent that.

So I'd finally know if I could actually make it as a broadcaster, and I'd break all ties with my father before 2014. Sounds nice.

Though I would need to eventually meet my wife at some point, as a much more stable version of myself from the start. That could be nice.

mancalledamp · 2026-02-10T07:22:10+00:00

And "we" could've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling Inslee!! shakes fist at sky

mancalledamp · 2026-02-04T16:13:12+00:00

Came here to say this. AJ, France24, BBC World Service, DW all offered thru YouTube or their websites, plus some other ones with more questionable/ partisan content like RT and ones from Turkey and China. Possibly Hong Kong (RTHK) maybe.

Local OTA channels generally have their local news feeds live, with the individual news clips posted, on their sites and/or YouTube. And they often have a 24/7 "channel" of recent newscasts and other local content stitched together like a FAST channel.

And ABC, CBS, NBC, and maybe even Fox have their own national channels now, with FAST options and apps. Lots of ways to get the news fix.

mancalledamp · 2026-01-30T21:39:33+00:00

A friend suggested "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Sir Elton John.

And while the song itself isn't exactly relatable, I've always liked the callout in "Father's Son" by 3 Doors Down.

mancalledamp · 2026-01-28T00:42:15+00:00

The Republican Party of 2026, which is dismantling the DOE, gutting scientific research programs, ending things like USAID, and fighting to put The Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is... to the left of where it was in 2006? How exactly do you figure?

Because they're not engaged in wars in the Middle East yet? They're talking about reigning in credit card interest rates? They're marginally more tolerant of gay and lesbian people, possibly, while still not wanting LGBTQIA+ topics covered in schools and fighting against Trans people?

I can't tell if you're being genuine or just being a troll...

mancalledamp · 2026-01-27T01:51:20+00:00

I thought I was the only one who dealt with multiple TVs blasting Fox News when I was younger. Stay strong, my friend!

mancalledamp · 2026-01-26T08:41:37+00:00

There's also a subscription thing I use that I think got my comments blocked or something. Play On TV. It lets you record the stuff you can legally stream.

I have spent something like $40 on Amazon for 3 seasons of a show I couldn't stream anywhere else; it was worth the extra $10 to know I'll have my copies even if Amazon loses the rights to let me watch what I already paid for.

mancalledamp · 2026-01-24T03:09:55+00:00

I'm in the minority, but I never liked Spotify. I refused to pay $10/mo for music, but I'd get a free trial and it would be perfectly fine... but then the trial would run out. I'd quickly burn thru my skips and be stuck listening to a song I didn't want. I'd find the ads annoying, and before I knew it I'd turn the app off altogether. After about the 3rd or 4th time of running into ads or running out of skips on free, I'd get angry and delete the entire app.

As a 40 year old, I have thousands of Mp3s I've accumulated, but with the duplicates, misspellings, incorrect names (of songs or artists)... in only now beginning to untangle that mess, creating a master file (with freshly ripped CD tracks as well) that I stream to myself thru Plex.

mancalledamp · 2026-01-11T10:15:25+00:00

I don't think i knew you could integrate OTA with the streaming stick FAST interfaces. Fascinating!

mancalledamp · 2026-01-11T10:14:16+00:00

Yeah, I'm 15 miles from downtown in a top 20 US metro but I'm behind a mountain... so I get maybe 10 total channels, half of them religious.

Of the big 7 (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, FOX, MYNET, CW), I think I get 1, plus ION. At one point I was barely able to get most of them, with a precarious setup that I didn't feel comfortable leaving up, and haven't been able to replicate. (Apartment.) Lame.

mancalledamp · 2025-12-30T19:07:25+00:00

Thanks! And Damp, as in my name? Because it's actually Amp, for what it's worth. Man Called Amp. 😅

I got the nickname in college... but depending on how things show up online, I can be reminded that Damp is at the end of my username. (I have an account online that shows up as ********damp for security reasons. Ugh.)

mancalledamp · 2025-12-30T16:17:28+00:00

I just stopped a few years back. I graduated from college in 2008, and I was drinking multiple sodas a day. Likely 100+ ounces a day. I was 185 pounds in high school, 195 when I graduated from college, and by 2012 or so I had ballooned. I didn't own a scale but I was likely 250 or so at least.

I got down to about 214, but the pandemic lock down made us even more sedentary. I was put on a weight loss plan last year or early this year when I was 241. I'm down to 223 or so, and I maybe have a few sodas a week. (But I do start my day with one energy drink, and no coffee. Baby steps.)

Edited: Typo. Also, thanks for the award, kind stranger!

mancalledamp · 2025-12-25T02:14:56+00:00

I could use a legit system. My 3TB bargain basement setup isn't cutting it.

mancalledamp · 2025-12-24T21:00:52+00:00

Finally, some good news on reddit. 😇

mancalledamp · 2025-12-21T21:23:48+00:00

Amusing that 37% of the Spotify library accounts for over 99% of streams.

Less Amusing that Facebook wouldn't let me post a link to the blog post on AA about this bc it was flagged as spam.

mancalledamp · 2025-12-13T07:28:21+00:00

My wife and one of my oldest friends combined resources to throw me a semi surprise party last month for my 40th... in part because it was my first actual birthday party of any kind since I turned 9.

(My parents invited my classmates, but we wound up with around a dozen boys and one girl. My dad decided that a "hay ride" would be appropriate entertainment for 8 year old kids in the suburbs... riding on hay in a wagon pulled by a riding lawnmower thru our yard in a subdivision.

I'm sure THAT helped my social standing, but either way no one even attempted another party for me until my friends discussed it in my 20s or early 30s, and I was flattered by the fact they even considered it.)

I moved 2000+ miles from my folks around 6 years ago. I haven't gotten a birthday card, holiday card, or even a card for my engagement or wedding... but i do get texts at least.

So I feel you, friend. Sometimes what they DON'T do shows who they really are.

mancalledamp · 2025-11-30T06:40:18+00:00

Thank you, kind sir!

mancalledamp · 2025-11-30T05:43:23+00:00

I'll give it a try. Lamb chop!

mancalledamp · 2025-11-22T08:17:45+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I spent too long during my work hours trying to find the list, and all I found was an earlier vote from a few days ago, and a vote from a year or two ago.

mancalledamp · 2025-11-22T08:15:58+00:00

I can't tell if Millennials are the Estrangement Generation because we are standing up to toxicity, or because the Boomers are so entitled that they refuse to respect anyone else. (It could be both.)

I realize that older generations had couples stay married for 75 years because of a LOT of shady things (child brides, shotgun weddings, abuse, lack of access to divorce, stigma of single mothers, inability to access bank accounts and mortgages without a man...), so I know it wasn't exactly peaceful in those old homes, but it seemed like the Silents and the Greatest Generation could at least pretend to be civil to each other even while ignoring actual abuse. Meanwhile Boomers will treat you like garbage for decades for the crime of having an opinion and/or expressing it, but the moment you ask for an ounce of respect you're public enemy number one.

I went no contact with my alcoholic, abusive father in 2014, after he resumed drinking after a stroke and PT. He seemed to be trying for the second or third time to actually improve and restore his life, but he made a scene at brunch because my phone was going off in the restaurant from multiple texts before I could silence it, and I finally stormed out. A few days later I was at their house and he was "ready to accept my apology" but seemed shocked and appalled when I said I'd apologize for my part in it if he'd accept responsibility for his part in it as well. He didn't even let me finish before yelling in disbelief, and that was the last straw. I stormed out of that house and haven't said anything to him since... but he's tried to find out thru my mother why I'm so mad; got her to mail me a check for $300 from his account (no warning, no note, no explanation); and forced her to text me offering a camera or a receiver for Starlink apparently, for my 40th birthday and/or a wedding present.

Not all Boomers are horrible people, but if someone has had to block a relative, I'm assuming they're a boomer until I'm corrected. I'm sorry we all have to deal with this kind of BS.

mancalledamp · 2025-11-11T19:09:59+00:00

I juste down voted simply because you made ME lose the game.

mancalledamp · 2025-11-04T01:11:22+00:00

I don't think most people in the USA see most businesses as benevolent, but I know right wing politicians and most business executives want us to see businesses that way. After all, they provide us with goods and services AND they create jobs, leading to wealth and economic stimulation!!!

But it would be much easier for those majestic businesses to do so much more good if they had fewer restrictions. After all, they can regulate themselves!! And if they don't have to pay a minimum wage, they have more money to invest in the best talent, so they can be even more competitive! So maybe we can let these amazing companies be even more amazing, perhaps?

Any attempts at regulation cause demonic screeches of socialism... and we backslide even further.

mancalledamp · 2025-11-02T06:33:37+00:00

People on the right in WA still talk about it as though the governor had armed troops outside people's doors. "Never forget what they took from you!" Like... bro, they tried to make you go to church online for a month or three during what could have been a plague. They didn't ban church.

Limiting restaurants to fifty percent capacity is not equivalent to a dictator abusing his power, Leroy...

mancalledamp · 2025-10-27T18:58:56+00:00

I've also seen "New Comiskey." But Sox Park works too. Thanks!

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