Well, the final nail in TechTV’s coffin was driven in today, as TechTV and G4 offically merged to form G4techTV. My DirecTV already shows Channel 354 as “G4TV” and the TechTV website, www.techtv.com, now redirects to g4techtv.com, the new network’s “official website” (which is all G4-ish and shows no traces of the TechTV website’s look). Also, all the great content from the past years of The Screen Savers and Call For Help that lived on the web, is gone (except for in the Google cache.)
As a long time fan of shows like The Screen Savers and Call For Help, and people like Leo Laporte, this is a pretty sad day. The only remnants to survive the tragedy are The Screen Savers and while Patrick and Kevin are pretty great, they will probably not be around for much longer (they’re already been fired.)
I still remember TechTV back when it was called ZDTV and The Screen Savers were Leo Laporte and Kate Botello (I can still hear them chanting “DirectTV Channel 273!”) and there were shows like Internet Tonight and The Money Machine.
Lets have a moment of silence for the once great network. (Shuts off TV.)
