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ABC Family Announces Name Change Because Current Name Is Too “Wholesome”…
« on: October 07, 2015, 06:49:31 pm »

ABC Family Announces Name Change Because Current Name Is Too “Wholesome”…


God forbid…

Via Daily Caller:

    ABC Family announced plans to change its name this January because it want more adults watching its TV shows — not little kids or families. The station’s new name will be Freeform.

    Executives at ABC Family announced Tuesday in a press release they plan to appeal to an age group they call “Becomers,” people between 14 and 34. Previously, the channel was known for more traditional kid shows, but starting in January 2016, the channel will officially move away from exclusively entertaining this demographic.

    “For us, this doesn’t feel like a radical departure, this is an evolution,” ABC Family president Tom Ascheim told Entertainment Weekly. “For the last 10-to-12 years, we’ve been targeting young people, Millennnials, and then something happened. Millennials started getting older. The oldest ones are nearly 40. So do we follow Millennials or stay with the ‘life stage’ that got us here?”

    Keep reading… (more at link)
http://www.weaselzippers.us/236168-abc-family-announces-name-change-because-current-name-is-too-wholesome/
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Re: ABC Family Announces Name Change Because Current Name Is Too “Wholesome”…
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2015, 06:52:00 pm »
Since I don't watch television, this has no effect for me except as some sort of a continuing cultural collapse.
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2015, 07:10:51 pm »
Their programming hasn't been for families for a long time.

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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2015, 07:52:55 pm »
Quote from: famousdayandyear on October 07, 2015, 06:52:00 pm
Since I don't watch television, this has no effect for me except as some sort of a continuing cultural collapse.
Yep.....on obamas list. Cultural collapse.
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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2015, 08:35:35 pm »
They should have called it The ABC Alternative Family Network.

Problem solved.
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« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2015, 08:39:42 pm »
The new name is "Trannies R Us"
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« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2015, 10:18:51 pm »
Quote from: flowers on October 07, 2015, 07:52:55 pm
Yep.....on obamas list. Cultural collapse.

I would say at the very top of his list....
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Re: ABC Family Announces Name Change Because Current Name Is Too “Wholesome”…
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2015, 10:29:40 pm »
Quote from: famousdayandyear on October 07, 2015, 06:52:00 pm
Since I don't watch television, this has no effect for me except as some sort of a continuing cultural collapse.

Quote from: musiclady on October 07, 2015, 07:10:51 pm
Their programming hasn't been for families for a long time.

I have three daughters. We used to have huge battles over ABC Family programming. Talk about misnomer... In fact, that's when I made up my mind to give up television. My wife however, well that's a different matter. She didn't agree. Maybe that's why she's my ex-wife.
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« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2015, 10:32:37 pm »
Quote from: aligncare on October 07, 2015, 10:29:40 pm
I have three daughters. We used to have huge battles over ABC Family programming. Talk about misnomer... In fact, that's when I made up my mind to give up television. My ex-wife however, well that's a different matter. She didn't agree. Maybe that's why she's my ex-wife.

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« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2015, 02:09:35 pm »
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they plan to appeal to an age group they call “Becomers,” people between 14 and 34.
What are they becoming?
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« Reply #10 on: October 08, 2015, 02:58:24 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on October 08, 2015, 02:09:35 pm
What are they becoming?

Idiots, if they're watching ABC.
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« Reply #11 on: October 08, 2015, 03:59:57 pm »
Psst. Andy. You missed off the "useful."
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Re: ABC Family Announces Name Change Because Current Name Is Too “Wholesome”…
« Reply #12 on: October 08, 2015, 04:43:20 pm »
Quote from: famousdayandyear on October 07, 2015, 06:49:31 pm

    “For us, this doesn’t feel like a radical departure, this is an evolution,” ABC Family president Tom Ascheim told Entertainment Weekly. “For the last 10-to-12 years, we’ve been targeting young people, Millennnials, and then something happened. Millennials started getting older. The oldest ones are nearly 40. So do we follow Millennials or stay with the ‘life stage’ that got us here?”



How they hell does he figure? If you accept 20 year length generations and the Boomers started in '45 or '46, that puts the upper age of Xers at 50 and Millenials at 30.
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« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2015, 05:21:04 pm »
Quote from: EC on October 08, 2015, 03:59:57 pm
Psst. Andy. You missed off the "useful."

Yes, indeed I did.  :beer:
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« Reply #14 on: October 08, 2015, 05:58:29 pm »
Why not just call it TRANSGENDERS ARE US
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Re: ABC Family Announces Name Change Because Current Name Is Too “Wholesome”…
« Reply #15 on: October 09, 2015, 05:58:28 pm »
Freeform.

A name that signifies chaos, randomness and lack of definition.

A channel name is supposed to convey something about what you're airing on the channel. To choose a name like Freeform is almost as bad as calling your channel nothing at all.
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« Reply #16 on: October 09, 2015, 06:30:25 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on October 08, 2015, 04:43:20 pm


How they hell does he figure? If you accept 20 year length generations and the Boomers started in '45 or '46, that puts the upper age of Xers at 50 and Millenials at 30.

Ooo........ good catch!  Millenials are nowhere near 40 yet.

Apparently Ascheim isn't too good at math.   ^-^
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« Reply #17 on: October 09, 2015, 07:06:43 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 09, 2015, 06:30:25 pm
Ooo........ good catch!  Millenials are nowhere near 40 yet.

Apparently Ascheim isn't too good at math.   ^-^

They're trying to pretend the Xers don't exist anymore, because we didn't play ball with their liberal hopes and dreams. Desperate as hell to create their new liberal hippie generation to replace the Boomers. If that don't work out they can move on like pedophiles to the next one.
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« Reply #18 on: October 09, 2015, 07:10:04 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on October 09, 2015, 07:06:43 pm
They're trying to pretend the Xers don't exist anymore, because we didn't play ball with their liberal hopes and dreams. Desperate as hell to create their new liberal hippie generation to replace the Boomers. If that don't work out they can move on like pedophiles to the next one.

Interesting thought.  I think you're on to something there.

The left is filled with vultures who want to devour any decency we have left in this culture, and they'll do whatever it takes to get it done.
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« Reply #19 on: October 09, 2015, 07:33:35 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on October 09, 2015, 07:10:04 pm
Interesting thought.  I think you're on to something there.

The left is filled with vultures who want to devour any decency we have left in this culture, and they'll do whatever it takes to get it done.

Picked up on it when I noticed a shift in the entertainment industry  about 5 years ago from the '60 was the new 30' from the liberal Boomers to recycling the 'Don't trust anyone over 30' thing from the 60's and the sudden Millenial hate for anything 'old'. They are about as subtle as a club to the face.
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« Reply #20 on: October 09, 2015, 08:16:08 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on October 09, 2015, 07:33:35 pm
Picked up on it when I noticed a shift in the entertainment industry  about 5 years ago from the '60 was the new 30' from the liberal Boomers to recycling the 'Don't trust anyone over 30' thing from the 60's and the sudden Millenial hate for anything 'old'. They are about as subtle as a club to the face.

Yeah........... and they think no one notices...   **nononono*
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