G4 becomes Esquire Network April 22

Holy hell i just realized something. I'm surprised no one else mentioned it, but this network is being taken over by...

CRAB PEOPLE, CRAB PEOPLE. Walk like man, talk like people. CRAB PEOPLE, CRAB PEOPLE.

"the ~modern man~, what being a man today is all about." This is going to be a disaster.

"cars, politics, world affairs, travel, fashion, and cooking"

Yes because I AM A MODERN MAN and these are the things I CARE ABOUT in this world.....jk lol......sounds pretty dull and uninteresting

G4 has become a channel for everything but gaming, but to make another boring channel with topics that are already covered by just about every other station, I would have liked a channel focused solely on gaming instead. Oh well.

As a man... I cannot wait to not watch this network.

And the years-long downfall of this channel since G4 took over TechTV will be complete. Real shame, too. Missed Cinematech. Missed X-Play (Pre-G4). Missed Robot Wars (My personal favorite non-video game-related show at that time). Even a few G4 programs I'll actually miss (Code Monkeys, Human Wrecking Balls, Ninja Warrior (AKA "Sasuke" in Japan)).

The way some cable networks are now working, airing multiple hours of a single show every day, leaves me concerned about the future of cable TV entertainment.

FACEPALM!!!!

"To attract a 'more educated, affluent, sophisticated' male.'" Considering a majority of the people who watch G4 are highly educated as is I guess you need 2 masters to be considered "educated" now. "Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television." That's weird, because depending on what I am playing, I do both.  Its called multitasking.  I guess NBC is too "educated" to do that. And of course you had issues aiming the channel at gamers.  You changed TechTV to G4 and removed some good shows to add movies from 1973 and continued to do so over the years. NBC can go fuck them selves IMO. Replace a gaming/technology channel to a GQ/Esquire/Metro-sexual one?  Good luck gaining your quota outside the east cost.

"LMAO" - "the modern man, what being a man today is all about."

How embarrasing is this. People need to get over themselves. This sounds like a posers channel for tosspots. 

Why Not Just Call It DoucheTV?  It would be more Honest.

Bravo for men? God help us all.

G4 had by far the most extensive coverage of E3 on TV. I know Spike covered a little bit of it, but nothing like G4. Where can I go for my coverage, and I don't want to watch it on a computer screen. Hell, where can I go to get any sort of video game programming on TV?

i think they deserve it because all their airtime is dedicated to COPS. Might as well call the network "COPS".

Will you FINALLY release season 2 of Code Monkeys on DVD or both seasons on Blu-Ray?!?!  And release the rights to the show, please.  Sell it to Comedy Central so we can get more Code Monkeys!!!

they should jus give AdultSwim there own channel lol with everyone from G4 and bring back SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST w/ Tom Green

F**k you stinking leftist liberals at NBC for tearing apart G4.

"guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television" Well maybe we would watch if instead of playing twelve hours of cops a day you would actually have some shows about gaming... 

I will miss their E3 coverage but really, they started losing me when they dropped Cinematech, EP, and Filter. X-Play got really boring and they started showing Cops.

R.I.P. G4

Soooo.. no more ninja warrior?

"More educated, affluent, sophisticated" male viewer says the female executive trying to assert her feminist agenda on network space.

G4 is coming under new management, fine, take it and do with it as you will. I harbored no attachment. But to say that what gamers are watching is irrelevant, that we are in our own little worlds, is rather insulting coming from someone who's caught up in the rat race of consumerism and materialism.

 Fashion, and cooking, honestly, because nothing says masculinity more than those activities.

Politics and world affairs? Whoa! Look out! We're dealing with someone who dabbles in things of grandeur. Way too big for my little gamer mind.

This channel already exists. It's called LOGO.

G4 died 9 years ago when they merged with Tech TV.

"Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television,"

And that's being said by a person that doesn't have a damn clue about anything gaming. And the G4 network in the last six years or so years barely contain anything gaming related, and what it had was a insult to gamers.  

Seriously, how retarded are these executives?

"What is a man? A miserable pile of little secrets! But enough talk - have at you!"

If I want to watch something gaming related I just go to twitch.tv anyways.  

My favorite thing about this channel, when they still had it, it was that show called ICoN. They had allot good icons episodes. They cancel the show and reduse the games programing, and started adding shows that had nothing to do with video games, and that's whe the channel started going down hill.

yea its sad i remember watching the first day and they had that show that was back in the 80's of people playing the arcade games then seeing young kevin so long ago well they cant take this channel and shove it up there esquire i wont be watching

What we really need is a Man network, and no I'm not talking about "spiketv" man network. But man networks that play classic manly tv shows, like Magnum PI, Macguyver, Miami Vice, China Beach, re-runs of Burt Reynolds movies all night after midnight.

It was a nitsche channel in a pond filled with the generic. Sure it didnt have a massive audiance, but it was nice to know that I could turn on the telivision for video game reviews and news. Weird Anime i wouldnt watch anywhere else. Cinematech which was a show that was dedicated to not just videogames but presenting the games as a form of art mishmashed in a beautiful serene way that really made my brain melt. Ninja Warrior! They took a show strait from japan and edited it, but really made it fun and entertaining to watch with any who would be willing to watch it. G4tv at its best, was a collection of some of the best underrated programming on telivision. my one problem with g4 was that it watered its product down over time rather than embrace its uniqueness. It needed more code monkeys, more stuff from japan, and more stuff dealing with the game industry. Im sorry but g4/tech tv was a big part of my growing up as a gamer.

An upscale Bravo for *straight* men?

This network has been trash since it stopped being ZDTV, all those years ago.

Makes me sad

The Esquire brand is not associated with anything authentically upscale. This channel will peddle faux-luxury for the nouveau riche.

who actually likes the regular Bravo? ick. go ahead and spit shine the trash and see where it gets you...

The channel kinda went to hell when Adam and Kevin left their shows. Regardless, so many memories tied in with G4 and especially TechTV. From the sounds of it, I will not be giving this Esquire nonsense any sort of chance.