0_0 WHAT?! Chiller TV Drops Dead Before 2018! 0_0

How's it going lurkers? Like the coldest winter chill, Heaven will surely not be beside Chiller TV next year. (Did you catch that Alice In Chains song reference?)

On Black Friday, I browsed around a forum I belong to and discovered that NBC Universal's Chiller TV will drop dead before next year.

Deadline: Chiller Going Dark As NBCUniversal Axes Horror-Centric Channel

Wow! This was unexpected news. Even though Chiller TV's programming could've been a LOT  better, I cannot help feeling rather surprised that NBC Universal chose to ax their Horror-centric channel, after all these years.

This March 1st, Chiller TV officially turned 10. Households without a Dish Network or Direct TV package will not be hurt by the network "going dark;" Only households with Direct TV and Dish Network were able to watch Chiller.

Time Warner Cable NEVER had Chiller TV as a part of their cable package. This particular channel was WAY too niche.

After Dish Network discontinued Chiller TV from their packaging, the Horror-centric channel became nicher. Every household did not have a Direct TV or a Dish Network package.

Had Time Warner Cable added Chiller TV to their package 10 years ago, the network probably would've acquired more Horror viewers and ratings. 

More households today may pay to watch online streaming shows, but there are still households with basic cable and satellite packages.

I believe more households had Time Warner Cable as their provider than Direct TV and Dish Network combined. When Horror Anime returned to Chiller's programming, ONLY  the households with Direct TV and Dish could watch the channel.

Those of us viewers with satellite packages DID watch Chiller's shortly lived Anime Wednesday block. However, we were automatically excluded from the viewer ratings.

There were articles claiming that ZERO viewers watched Anime Wednesday within the first 3 weeks of its launch. Viewers like myself can declare that was a LOAD of bullshit.

Before Adult Swim's forum was shut down last winter, I posted in threads during July 2015 about Chiller TV's Anime Wednesday block. Those of us with Dish Network and Direct TV watched it. Our viewership just was NOT  included in the ratings.

The preceding is a perfect example of why I am not OBSESSED with ratings. Ratings can be RIGGED. This is what Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Toonami sycophants over the Internet cannot seem to grasp.

By Chiller NOT  being on Time Warner Cable's package, it lost more potential viewers.

On August 16, 2015, I published a Cartoon Sunday blog. In the following blog, I gave 5 reasons why Chiller TV's Anime Wednesday block tanked in generating more viewers.

Cartoon Sunday: Tokyo Ghoul Trailer (2015)

All 5 reasons I provided in the preceding Cartoon Sunday blog are still true, 2 years later. The fact that the Horror-centric network was excluded from Time Warner, seriously hurt Chiller TV's viewership the most, in my opinion.

When I joined the original Xanga 4 years ago, I published a blog explaining about the flaws in Chiller TV's programming.

Chiller TV Or Not So "Chiller TV"? (2013)

As I reflect on 1 of my earliest blogs from Xanga 4 years later, everything that was said still holds true today.

As a Horror AND Anime fan, I remain to be disappointed in Chiller TV's programming. This NBC Universal channel had SO MUCH potential, that went to waste.

On December 31, 2017 at 11:59 pm, Chiller TV will drop dead and be gone forever.

Therefore, if you are a Horror fan with Direct TV, I recommend watching Chiller TV during these final days.

Pretty soon, this channel will bite the dust and we will all have NBC Universal to thank for axing their very own Horror-centric channel.

What are your thoughts?

Cartoon Sunday: Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1

How's it going lurkers? You're gonna love this. So, 2 Tuesday nights ago, I discovered in an Adult Swim thread that Dish Network removed most of Turner's channels. 

TBS and TNT are the only networks under the Ted Turner umbrella that have not been removed from Dish Network. 

Those 2 channels are covered by a separate contract than CNN, HLN, TruTV, TCM, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang. 

Out of all those listed channels, my family and I only watch 2 of them. Those 2 channels are Cartoon Network and Boomerang. 

We can't watch Boomerang or Adult Swim because Turner and Dish Network couldn't reach an agreement about their contract.

Dish Customers Lose Access To Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, More

My grandmother watches Boomerang for all the older cartoons. The rest of us watch Adult Swim. It's a bundled network on Cartoon Network.

I mostly watch Adult Swim for American Dad, Family Guy, The Boondocks, Robot Chicken, Bleach (which just ended last night), Metalocalypse, and Hellsing Ultimate.

We don't watch Adult Swim nearly as much as we have in the past. Within the last several years, the network shoved all the Anime to late Saturday nights and early Sunday mornings. 

Regardless of the awful programming, we still watch Adult Swim. I checked Dish Network's Facebook page. It has numerous irate customers to respond to about blacking out most Turner networks. 

Based on the comments I read 2 weeks ago, most customers were furious for not having CNN, TruTV, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang.

Dish Network pulled this exact same stunt several years ago with AMC's other networks, which are affiliated with NBC Universal.

Dish Network's customers are so irate, that they are canceling their packages. I don't blame them. 

If I really could, I would cancel the service not because of losing only 2 channels, but because we do not watch most of those other 100+ channels.

I watch slightly more than a handful of Dish's channels alone. Since I'm not paying the bill and because my family watches certain channels, we're stuck with Dish Network.

It's disappointing that John McCain never had his bill passed. He wanted to pass a bill where cable and satellite dish owners could customize our own packages by removing excess channels.

That would've saved customers money. It may sound silly to some people, however it's ridiculous to pay $100's for unwanted channels. It annoys me to have a gajillion sports channels, that none of us watch. We have to pay extra to watch the better channels because they are not on the main Dish package.

I don't necessarily mean Showtime, HBO, and Skinemax. I mean the Japanese channels and other channels, that I would consider watching.

Meanwhile, it's Cartoon Sunday. Remember that Cartoon Sunday blog review I published, which featured Hellsing Ultimate, in March?

Besides learning about Dish Network and Turner's dispute, I also learned that Adult Swim will only air 8 of the 10 OVA's.

Hellsing Ultimate Finale Will Not Air On Toonami

Next Sunday, Adult Swim will air the 8th OVA.

Judging by the network's current late Saturday night/early Sunday morning schedule, I won't be watching Adult Swim. This is until the network acquires the rights to another show(s) I want to watch.

Then again, even if there was a show I wanted, I still would be unable to watch it on Adult Swim. 

Thank you Dish Network and Turner for not settling your dispute! Now, I have extra time to be more constructive and watch better shows on TV and online.

On a more positive note, I managed to grab Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1 online! Funimation Entertainment restricted outside viewers 2 months ago, but we just got lucky today!   

Get ready to watch a kick ass Seinen Horror Action Anime! Anyway, here's Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1!

Hellsing Ultimate OVA 1 (2006)