There was nothing really on this channel that marketed well towards Gays initially from what I remember. I do recall seeing an odd QAF showing every once which I initially liked but the programming has always been the worst part of the channel.

I remember when I started seeing Buffy and Nip/tuck reruns on the channel and trying to rectify how that was gay programming.

LOGO has been an awful, basic verson of Here!

I am not sad at all to see them go a new direction.

Yeah as the gay channel Logo has failed. I mean I liked them early on with Queer as Folk reruns, Sordid Lives, airing the Beautiful People etc. but most of their programming left a lot to be desired personally.

It shouldn't come as a surprise either giving how recently The History Channel seemed to have dumped its actual history programs, Weather Channel attempting to show movies, and other numerous examples of specialty channels abandoning their original intent altogether. 15 years ago the 500 channel universe sounded fun and like a dream. Today the 500 channel universe has failed epically.

It'll be HYSTERICAL if it gets rebranded someday as a "family-friendly" network.

MTV Family

Weather Channel attempting to show movies...

LMAO, how many times can you show Twister??

LMAO, how many times can you show Twister??

It was worse than that, I think TWC aired a bunch of 2nd rate movies barely related to weather for months on end but the movie block got cancelled after TWC missed out of coverage on a major storm.

Now The Weather Channel has a million documentaries, most of which are just about cheap shock value, and this runs in place of most weather coverage. You have to rely on local programming to find out weather - what was the point of the channel in the first place?

You're right that 500 channels is a joke. That's why when I hear people say, "No one watches the networks because of cable," I never buy it, because most cable channels are exactly the same.

Well soapnet essentially did do all that. LOGO was pretty pointless--randomly showing gay movies but censoring them, etc. This seems to be the way specialty channels always go after a while (I mean when did A&E last have Arts--and the entertainment angle is debatable?)

Soapnet is nowhere near as soap heavy as it was in the early years, but it hasnt dropped all soap programming from its schedule. Its still very soap focused even if they do feature stuff that would best be kept to Lifetime or E!

Now The Weather Channel has a million documentaries, most of which are just about cheap shock value

I'm glad someone has called this out because so many of these pseudo documentary shows are worthless with little details and the most arrogant, condescending bad narration to them as they filter out across so many networks (ie Weather, Discovery etc.) . If I want to stick with a documentary I'll stick with something from either PBS or BBC.

I'll miss Noah's Arc, 1 Girl 5 Gays, and the occasional movie.

1 Girl 5 Gays

It isn't produced by LOGO. It's produced by and airs on MTV Canada so it'll be around online.

I've only caught two shows on Logo, one was the Big Gay Sketch Comedy Show with Rosie and Chaz Bono playing Statler and Waldorf at the end. I remember the sketches I saw as being pretty funny. The one I constantly flip past while channel surfing is called 1 Girl 5 Gays and they just ask random questions and share their opinions. It was kind of funny but of course a lot of it was wannabe shocking sex questions and that got tiresome very quickly.

1 Girl 5 Gays isn't even their show--it's a Canadian MTV Canada show (doesn't Logo have ties to MTV actually?) I unfortunately know one of the cast members (though I admit that my friends and I have a tendency to watch it and laugh when drinking...)

Soapnet is nowhere near as soap heavy as it was in the early years, but it hasnt dropped all soap programming from its schedule. Its still very soap focused even if they do feature stuff that would best be kept to Lifetime or E!

You're right, but it does seem that increasingly they go for more "general" programming.

Weather Channel in the US shows documentaries? LOL Weird--here it's just constant weather updated around the country lol. But as Carl said that's the thing with the majority of these specialty channels (at least the cable channels that show commercials--), they start off with some sort of concept and intention and then after a few years I swear they all are showing the same things, basically. Here in Canada we have various stations that started with interesting programming, like Bravo (no connection to the American one confusingly) which had a lot of arts/theatre/dance programming. Now it occasionally ahs something interesting, but basically shows a lot of Law and Order.

It isn't produced by LOGO. It's produced by and airs on MTV Canada so it'll be around online.

Ha you beat me to it.