Why is there no cable network for progressives and liberals?

[redstateblues]

I think it would do quite well considering the left got more votes than the right.

[shenmue]

1. There's Free Speech TV on Roku boxes

[redstateblues]

2. What is a Roku box?

[shenmue]

4. A widget you plug into your teevee

It lets you stream lotsa channels.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

10. It is a device that allows you to stream internet content and view it on a TV

It is most commonly used for Netflix and Hulu, but there are lots of apps on it. Some apps are for paid services and others are free. I use it mostly to watch Netflix. I switched over to Roku when they changed the TV signal from analog to digital. Digital signal sucked for watching anything off the antenna.

[meow2u3]

3. We had MSNBC until they sold out to ConCast

Then they took a hard right turn.

We could use backers like Steier to start up a left-leaning cable network to serve as a counterbalance to Fox Noise.

[shenmue]

6. I would like that too

[redstateblues]

8. the fact that the only 2 fearless talking heads, Joy Reid and Lawerence O'D

Are relegated to the worst time slots says it all

[GP6971]

5. Probably lack of

long term, dedicated sponsorship could be one reason

[Skittles]

7. ratings based on fear beat ratings based on nuanced thought

[ronnie624]

22. 1. n/t

[kysrsoze]

9. Must be your particular cable system. FSTV is on DirecTV

[Island Blue]

13. I'm pretty sure it is on Direct TV.

It's on Dish - one of the high channels (9415). You can also watch it live on the interwebs, and see replays of various content from previous shows.

[redstateblues]

14. Yep. Don't have it. Who is on it? Anybody good?

[Bear Creek]

11. All media is liberal

Not really but that is what the stupid idiots think so. In fact some of them think fox news is too liberal. There are only 6 corporations that own it all or 6 to rule them all.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. The MSM is only as liberal as the conservative CEOs. . .

. . .who run them.

[Auntie Bush]

12. MSNBC started out to but then the exutives took over and decided they better add some

Conservatives to be more balanced. CNN! Can do that! We need our own channel. If FOX can do it....why can't MSNBC?

[msongs]

15. lack of viewers - haters love to wallow in their swill and non-haters have better things to do nt

[phallon]

17. Please don't patronize RT

[Kilgore]

18. It comes down to advertising revenue

You dont have to look much further than talk radio. Even in progressive Portland OR the great KPOJ is now a sports station. The main reason is the format just cant generate the advertising revenue to sustain the business. Why? I dont know. It was a great station.

But at the same time you have multiple Rush stations to choose from. Crazy.

[LeftInTX]

19. There is a movie from 1976 called Network

It foresaw alot of this crap. Before there was cable, network news was considered to be the "non-profit" arm of the network. All of that changed with cable news.

Network, the movie, is about a network news that tries to increase ratings and become profitable. The results are pretty much like cable news. Very eerie.

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[andym]

20. Air America, a progressive radio network, failed a few years ago

to achieve high enough ratings. Probably that has something to do with the lack of a cable network.

[JI7]

21. because liberals are more into film and books and other arts which are often inspired

through liberal views.

[lovemydog]

23. Thank you.

That's what I was going to say.

Liberals I respect most, the kind who think critically, don't watch much television 'news.'

They certainly don't conflate it with useful information or history.

[librechik]

24. because we live in a police state run by Nazis who won't allow liberal media.

for decades.