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"Starting now on Channel 4 is a brand new show that we paid a ridiculous amount of money for which we'll launch in a blaze of publicity, and after a few weeks, we'll get bored of it and move it around the schedule where no one can find it, then we'll brand it a flop, take it off the air for six months, then reluctantly put it back on at three in the morning."
The prototypical network executive's time revolves not around nurturing talent for the benefit of all, but around making him or herself look competent. That means appearing responsible for every success and innocent of every failing that the network might have, irrespective of whether this was actually the case. Plus, the people that the executive is trying to convince are his or her fellow executives, who are likewise having the exact same neurotic crisis day in and day out.
Nevertheless, the need to keep their channels populated with new shows means that their commissioning bodies will keep putting forward all kinds of shows that may or may not appeal to the network executives' sensibilities.
For this reason, the execs will sometimes find themselves in the unfortunate position of being in charge of a show that they do not understand and therefore do not know what to do with. This presents them with a tricky situation: if the show is a failure they risk losing face, but if the show is a success then they'll look redundant.
Alternatively, the show may be a legacy commission under your predecessor, which is worse — because if it's a success, they'll have one up on you, but if you cancel it straight off, you'll lose all plausible deniability when people call you petty and small.
The answer to both of these problems, of course, is to screw the show over completely. Put it in a different time slot each episode, show it in the wrong order, bury it at midnight or in the Friday Night Death Slot, put it up against the other networks' strongest shows... do everything you can for it to build up a regular viewing audience that's not quite big enough to warrant the budget, but just big enough to cause some trouble when you cancel it for not "attracting the right audience."
Okay, okay — not all network executives are like this. There exist the individuals who intentionally seek out creative people to make shows that don't just copy one or another, and as they get promoted, they may become the very predecessors these shows are inherited from. However, screwing a show happens more often than you may wish to believe, and typically it's because they were apathetic.
Please try to avoid listing shows as being "screwed" just because of a disagreement over the reasons for their cancellation. Plenty of shows are canceled simply because they just weren't making any money even with the network backing it. This is about intentional sabotage (or at the least making decisions so stupid it looks like it was intentional), not "the mean network executives canceled my favorite show".
Often the cause of Follow Up Failure. Compare Executive Meddling, Executive Veto, Invisible Advertising, and Screwed by the Lawyers. Also compare No Export for You, though that doesn't affect the actual production, but the export of a given product.
Rarely, the situation will invert itself with Network to the Rescue. Contrast with Adored by the Network.
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Card Games
- The Pokémon Trading Figure game in America. Fans got excited for it in 2006 when Pokémon USA announced it — a collectible figure game with high quality figures produced by noted Japanese company Kaiyodo, and featuring actual trainers from the game as figures — but the release was a disaster. All the strategy of the Japanese counterpart had been stripped, turning it into a strange hybrid of the TCG and the failed collectible coins game (essentially, it was Rock-Paper-Scissors with Pokémon, which was already basically Rock-Paper-Scissors where Rock wasn't necessarily going to be instakilled by Paper every single time) and even then, the figures were impossible for collectors to find, were often broken in the packaging, and hardly advertised. In early 2009, after much delaying of the second expansion's release, it was officially announced as discontinued.
- On top of that are the additional hurdles when trying to sell a trading figure game in the United States, especially to children: The packaging was not very theft-proof. Heroclix managed to survive because it's aimed at teens and young adults, who are less likely to just open and loot packages in-store, and reduced temptation to steal because every figurine is concealed.
- The Luck & Logic card game befell this fate in English after two years. Simply put, it didn't seem to catch on like Vanguard or Buddyfight did. The tie-in anime generally topping at "so-so" ratings didn't help either. There was also the fact that said tie-in anime, which is based on the card game, didn't even feature the card game.
Comic Books
- Dark Horse's Conan the Barbarian line has suffered this ever since 2012; first they encouraged Brian Wood (who was new to the franchise) NOT to follow the continuity of the previous series while at the same time adding a new artist every three issues. The follow up series Conan the Avenger was better written and more faithful but the art was often lambasted. The current series, Conan the Slayer, has seen the release dates of issues repeatedly pushed back.
- Several X-Men books have suffered this over the year:
- "Mutant X" was never supposed to replace X-Factor; it was supposed to run for 12 issues before going away and being replaced with a relaunched X-Factor comic. But early sales for Mutant X were far better than X-Factor's sales at the time, so the book lasted for 32 issues before being cancelled.
- Deadpool, Cable and X-Force (under Peter Milligan and Mike Allred) were cancelled and relaunched as "Agent X", "Soldier X" and "X-Statix". The relaunches for both books failed and while Agent X and Soldier X was thankfully mercy-killed and Deadpool and Cable restored to normalcy soon after, X-Statix rebounded from a god-awful first year with an arc involving the resurrection of a vain, self-righteous pop musician. Unfortunately, the singer was SUPPOSED to be Princess Diana but was changed at the last minute. As a result, Milligan and Allred became disillusioned and asked to leave the book, which was promptly cancelled with issue #26.
- For years, it's been a popular fan rumor the name changes were to get out of paying Rob Liefeld royalties - an apparently false rumor, since Liefeld hadn't actually been getting royalties at the time. note
- The Red Circle DCU revamp of the MLJ/Archie heroes has plenty of these: The original plan of using the original versions in The Brave and the Bold was scrapped in favor of launching them in a series of one-shots that immediately spun off into a pair of ongoings that debuted in the midst of Blackest Night and were the only two books to not tie in to that event, which crippled sales for them right out of the gate. It also had the $3.99 cover price with second feature format which also turned off readers. The only mainline DC book to give a major guest spot was when the Shield showed up in the low-selling Magog. DC is currently publishing a Mighty Crusaders mini-series to finish off the deal.
- And DC has ended the Red Circle deal, and the rights are reverting back to Archie Comics!
- And to make matters even worse, DC solicited the Mighty Crusaders mini-series (and the accompanying introductory special for the series) as a trade paperback, but cancelled it because it did not garnered enough pre-orders!
- According to the Word of God, the Red Circle heroes (as well as most of the Milestone Comics heroes) were barred from appearing in other titles due to the fact that DC would have to pay royalties for each guest-spot. So that's why save for Static, the Milestone and Red Circle heroes rarely got to appear in other, more popular titles.
- Technically, DC's deal for the Red Circle heroes will end on January 2012!
- Archie themselves are reviving the heroes in 2012 as the New Crusaders... as part of a web-only subscription service where the new stories are six pages each!
- To make it less annoying, the six-page installments of New Crusaders are going to be WEEKLY, which means 24-30 pages a month for the series, at a subscription fee of $2.99-$3.99 a month, plus thousands of pages of classic stories, as well!
- At least Archie is offering a free print preview of New Crusaders as part of the upcoming Free Comic Book Day version of Mega Man #1!
- And there is going to be a print version of New Crusaders, which will debut in August, three months after the digital version will debut!
- DC's highly controversial treatment of Stephanie Brown. Made the centerpiece of a highly controversial story complete with being written massively out of character and became a victim of Women In Refrigerators. She got an ongoing after she came back but was cursed with Replacement Scrappy status due to replacing the fan favorite Cassandra Cain in the role of Batgirl. When her series proved to be a massive critical success (becoming the only DC book to get into USA Today's top ten comic books), it got cancelled early to make room for the company wide reboot. She was promised a place in the Smallville Comic, only for her to be replaced by Barbara Gordon (and as recently discovered, not because Barbara was more well known, she was specifically singled out and removed, Gordon was picked after Stephanie was removed). Its been suspected that DC Editor Dan DiDio is the one responsible for this treatment, as it started after he got in charge, he was connected to most of her poor treatment, and has been the most hostile towards fan critique about it.
- Don Rosa like almost all the other Disney comics artists never got any royalties for his work, only one-time payments based on the number of pages. This led to him barely scraping by financially for all of his career, mostly supported by the higher wages of his wife and together with his deteriorating eyesight, eventually made him depressed, lose the passion for his work and retire. He explains all this in his epilogue to the Don Rosa Collection, which Disney refused to print, resulting in him putting it online for everyone to read.
- Marvel's treatment of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four following their entry into the film industry, especially from 2012/2013 onwards. 20th Century Fox owns the film rights to those comics, and is still making films in both series in order to hold onto the rights, so Marvel has been steadily whittling down the profiles of the comics they're based on in order to give less free promotion to Fox's films. They canceled the Fantastic Four comic outright in 2015 and sent the team their separate ways, and while the X-Men haven't undergone anything quite as drastic, it's still clear that Marvel is moving them Out of Focus. Most notably, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were retconned so that it turns out they're not mutants — something that can only be described as a deliberate jab at Fox, owing to those two characters showing up in separate incarnations in both Fox's X-Men films and in the MCU thanks to complicated legalese regarding their status as mutants. The point at which it became obvious that Marvel was doing this to screw Fox was when they went after the merchandising for the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, with toy lines for the series being pared down and T-shirts based on classic Marvel covers seeing characters from those series replaced with characters from the MCU. When Marvel's executive editor Tom Brevoort was asked about it in a Tumblr Q&A, he stated point-blank that the movies were the reason why.
- V. C. Andrews' first novel, Gods of Green Mountain, got this in a way; written sometime in the 1970s, it was supposed to be split into three books and published in 1986, but wasn't (presumably due to Andrews' death that year). It seems that her publisher and estate sat on it for almost 20 years, and when it was finally published, it was as an ebook in 2004, when ebooks weren't as widespread.
- They Might Be Giants had the full support of the executives for their first three albums on Elektra Records (Flood, Apollo 18, and John Henry). But while they were recording Factory Showroom, Elektra's parent company fired all the executives and the replacements didn't care for TMBG. As a result, Factory Showroom received almost no promotion when it was released, and the band asked to be released from their contract shortly after that.
- Happened twice to Red House Painters. The band was always at risk of being thrown off of 4AD Records because Mark Kozelek and Ivo Watts had clashing personalities (one of the most notorious in the industry). They were finally thrown off in 1996 over a quarrel over two guitar solos. Then they were picked up by Island Records who, caught in the merging of different labels, decided to drop the band and refuse to release their final album Old Ramon. That album didn't see release until 2001 when Sub Pop records finally picked up.
- This happens a great deal with many recording artists who find that, either because of cost-cutting measures or a perception of the general public's lost interest in them by the higher ups, their new releases aren't being promoted, then the albums aren't being distributed properly, then they're cut from their recording contract. EMI Records sent a huge percentage of their talent roster packing in the late 1990s - early 2000s because it was hemorrhaging money at the time, so a lot of artists who before found a lot of support from EMI ended up signing with considerably less supportive record companies, who screwed them over.
- One of the most notorious and tragic musical examples was Big Star. They might have actually been big stars if their albums hadn't been distributed by the crumbling Stax label.
- After Splashdown's EP Redshift rapidly sold out, the band made a new album called Blueshift. For reasons that remain mysterious, Capitol Records refused to release the album, but also retained copyright so that Splashdown could not release the album with another record company. Years later, the only way to hear those songs is through illegal downloading thanks to an internal leak. Splashdown split up due to fears that Capitol Records would retain copyright of any of their future songs.
- Country Music artist Darryl Worley has been screwed over by having three different labels close unexpectedly on him. First DreamWorks Records in 2005 (the abrupt closure of which also killed off the careers of nearly every artist on their roster except Toby Keith); then independent 903 Music in 2007; then another independent, Stroudavarious, in 2010. The closure of Stroudavarious also left an entire album of material in the can despite the single ("Keep the Change") almost hitting Top 40. After that, he put out a single on Tenacity Records which barely made Top 40, but nothing since.
- Similarly, Bigger Picture Music Group closed in May 2014 with Craig Campbell's "Keep Them Kisses Comin'" on the verge of top 10 at Billboard Country Airplay. The song lingered for a couple months after the label's closure and eventually came to an end at #8, giving the label its only Top 10 hit after it had gone out of business (thanks in no small part to Campbell himself phoning stations with requests). Similarly, Ryan Kinder's "Kiss Me When I'm Down" didn't chart until after the label had closed.
- Roadrunner Records abruptly dumped practically every Death Metal band on the label starting pretty much the instant Type O Negative produced the label's first Gold-seller. Most of the bands coming off the label ended up slamming Roadrunner for giving their final albums there little or no promotion, and Suffocation actually got hit with massive cuts to the budget for their second album, Breeding the Spawn, which resulted in the weakest production of any release by the band to date, before being formally dumped right after their next album, Pierced from Within, hit stores. Obituary managed to hold on with the label for a few years longer than most of their contemporaries, but most believe that the So Okay, It's Average nature of 1997's Back from the Dead, as well as the band's breakup the next year, was caused by interference from the label, and when Obituary reformed in 2005, they immediately went to a different label.
- David Bowie's 1993 album Black Tie White Noise (his first solo effort in four years) did well in Europe, hitting Number One on the U.K. charts. But it flopped in North America — in part because U.S. distributor Savage Records went belly-up shortly after it hit shelves.
- Brazilian singer Tim Maia had just recorded a new album for EMI, when he saw the estimated marketing costs matched the money spent recording. He raged, and caused the marketing executive to ask for a dismissal... which the label owner rejected, firing Maia instead. And dumping the record (ironically named Reencontro, "reunion") on stores with Invisible Advertising to guarantee it didn't go anywhere.
- Zig-zagged with Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997) — Epic Records gave it a heavy international push, resulting in #1 chart showings in Europe, but very little North American promotion, so it never reached higher than #24 on the U.S. charts. Perhaps justified on Epic's part, given that HIStory had a huge push two years prior but quickly faded in the U.S. (so an album that consisted mostly of remixes wasn't a guaranteed hit) and Jackson never brought the HIStory tour to the continental U.S. or Canada. Also, Jackson may have sabotaged himself with the Ghosts Short Film, the most elaborate of the album's tie-in efforts, by making it a huge allegory for the child molestation allegations of 1993 — the primary reason for his drop in stature in the U.S. to begin with. Rather than trying to get it MTV airplay, Sony ran it for a week in some Los Angeles theaters (attached to the film Thinner) before shuttling it off to the international market; reporter Diane Dimond wonders if it wasn't out of embarassment with the content. (Indeed, it's still a case of Keep Circulating the Tapes after all these years in Region 1.)
- Sort of zigzagged with Dream Theater at Elektra. After Falling Into Infinity flopped despite heavy Executive Meddling to make it more commercial, the label essentially gave the band free reign to run out their contract, but didn't promote them at all, essentially deciding that signing the group to a long-term deal was a mistake. The upshot was that after their contract with Elektra ran out, DT was able to sign with Roadrunner, who allowed them the same freedom but did a much better job promoting the band. Basically, they were able to demand the same freedoms they had previously been allowed while also making sure to sign a label that actually wanted them. Notably, their last album for Elektra, Octivarium reached #36 on the charts (already their highest peak since Awake, largely due to changing industry standards), while Systematic Chaos, their first for Roadrunner, reached #19 and their next three albums have all hit the top 10.
- Singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins was hit hard by this trope. Her 2007 debut Neptune City was highly acclaimed by music critics, with some even predicting she would be become the "next big thing." Unfortunately, her then-label Columbia Records unexpectedly delayed the album's release from July of that year to late October in order to give it further remastering. By which time any promotion she had gotten during the summer had long faded. The album, thus, failed to chart on the Billboard 200 and sold less than 50,000 copies overall. Needless to say, not long after, she left Columbia Records and jumped through several indie labels before finally creating her very own label (Oh Mercy Records) for her 2014 album Slow Phaser.
- Jojo wasn't able to release an album for nine years between 2006 and 2015 due to her label Blackground being massively mismanaged and keeping her in a contract even as the company fell apart; she had to sue to finally end her deal and could only record single songs and EPs in the interim.
- Swedish DJ Avicii is a very unique example or an artist being so Adored by the Network that he gets screwed over for that reason. In the summer of 2013, he released a song called "Wake Me Up!" Feedback of the song was overwhelmingly positive, and it quickly became the biggest EDM crossover hit of all time. After the song finished its run, it was time for Avicii to release his follow-up single, "Hey Brother." The song was destined to be another smash-hit for him...had it not been for stubborn radio executives who refused to move on to the next single. This practically crippled any momentum the song had off the back of its predecessor, and instead the song slowly limped to #16 before plummeting down the charts. Nowadays, Avicii's non-"Wake Me Up!" discography has been practically blacklisted from American radio stations, all out of adoration for his one monster hit.
- The only reason PSY's "Gangnam Style" was unable to dethrone Maroon 5's "One More Night" on the hot 100 was because radio executives wouldn't play the song on high rotation. "One More Night" was the top radio song during its entire reign at #1. Rumor has it that "One More Night" was deliberately overplayed to ensure "Gangnam Style" wouldn't ascend to the top.
- Bif Naked's self-titled first album was released on Plum Records in 1995. The label folded shortly thereafter without telling anybody, and the singer disappeared for a while. She came back strong after taking back the rights and re-releasing the album on her own label, Her Royal Majesty's Records.
- Conducting from the Grave's slide from touring machine to barely-active local headliner can largely be blamed on Sumerian Records pushing them towards a more "bro"-oriented sound (their original sound was roughly akin to early The Black Dahlia Murder with some deathcore elements); while they did acquiesce somewhat on Revenants (which had a noticeably more prominent deathcore undercurrent), they were pushed to simplify their approach even more, refused to do so, and watched as their tour support dried up before vanishing altogether, which was followed by the label unceremoniously dropping them. After a Kickstarter campaign to finance their third album, they have done virtually nothing since then and announced a breakup in 2015.
Pro Wrestling
- How about an entire company screwed by the network? In 2001, AOL Time Warner was openly looking to sell WCW, producer of the highest-rated shows for TNT (WCW Monday Nitro) and TBS (WCW Thunder), fretting over sagging ratingsnote and growing executive hostility over the industry of professional wrestling. A group of investors, lead by WCW head booker Eric Bischoff, had a deal in principle to take over the company and absorb the production costs that the network had been covering. However, with WCW eating up two hours of prime-time and the company millions of dollars in the red with no evidence things were going to get any better, Jamie Kellner, then the Turner Networks CEO, decided to cancel all WCW programming from Turner networks, torpedoing the deal. Vince McMahon (head of WCW's longtime rival World Wrestling Federation) then swooped in and bought out WCW's remaining assets (mostly wrestler contracts and its deep tape library) for pennies on the dollar. That said, Kellner had wanted to cancel the unprofitable company for a quite a while, and the only reason WCW stayed on TV for as long as it did was the intervention of Ted Turner, who had a soft spot for wrestling. Once Turner was out of power at the network, Kellner was supported by just about everyone at the company.note
- ECW's relationship with TNN, as exemplified in a now-infamous quote on a program in which TNN refused to air (it ended up airing on ECW's syndicated program, ECW Hardcore TV), was turbulent: "You have to be an ECW fan to watch this show, because, God knows, the network has never put out one freaking commercial or one press release to let you know that we're here!" Paul Heyman would go on to explain in the WWE-produced documentary The Rise and Fall of ECW that he blamed TNN's double-dealing for the demise of ECW; TNN rather publicly negotiated with, and subsequently signed, WWE to their network while marginalizing ECW further and further by the week, but refused to pull the trigger and actually cancel ECW, which prevented him from shopping the show around to other networks. In the last few months of the TNN run, Heyman was in open Writer Revolt, ramping up the show's offensive content and brazenly insulting TNN and its execs in an attempt to incite TNN to finally cancel the show in hopes of finding greener pastures elsewhere. The plan ultimately backfired on ECW when they found out they had virtually no money left, and they were driven to bankruptcy less than a year later. ECW's assets were purchased in bankruptcy court by WWE in 2003.
- Time for promos and actual pro wrestling matches, as well as budget to actually improve Wrestling Society X was constantly cut into by executives who cared little about promoting the show or quality of the product and more about stunts or explosions. Then the show was canceled after El Mesias hit someone with a fireball. In short, hypocrisy, but what are you gonna do?
- WGTW-48 would arbitrarily shift CZW's shows through the most unfavorable time slots possible before finally stating outright they didn't like the content and canceling the deal, making one wonder why they agreed to air CZW in the first place.
- UPN attempted to screw WWE by moving WWE SmackDown into the famed Friday Night Death Slot (where it would face not only constant pre-emptions for local sports, but the loss of a good portion of its audience to people getting out and doing stuff on Friday nights), in order to try and pressure WWE into keeping Monday Night Raw on Spike TV. However, thanks to an aggressive marketing campaign by WWE (even rebranding the show Friday Night SmackDown!), the show managed not only to not lose any viewers, but gained enough ground that it was one of the few UPN shows picked up by the post-merger CW.
- They ultimately wound up screwing them anyway, but it took a few years; when it came time to renew contracts, CBS wasn't interested despite the high ratings. SmackDown moved to the much-less-notable MyNetworkTV, and started beating The CW in ratings by a good margin.
- Then it got screwed by Memphis and Des Moines when those cities decided to dump MyNetworkTV after they went to a syndicated model in September 2009, however in both cases the CW affiliate picked SmackDown up for Saturday nights and pretty much got station upgrades otherwise. The rest of the MyNetworkTV schedule was blissfully ignored by both of them.
- And when WWE was ready to move Raw back to it's original home on the USA Network, Spike TV went out of its way to keep them from promoting the move.
- They ultimately wound up screwing them anyway, but it took a few years; when it came time to renew contracts, CBS wasn't interested despite the high ratings. SmackDown moved to the much-less-notable MyNetworkTV, and started beating The CW in ratings by a good margin.
- IWA Puerto Rico had been repeatedly ignored by Telemundo, having Impacto Total moved around or simply not aired but when NBC took over, they went beyond apathy into malicious intent, refusing to advertise or notify anyone of IWA's existence in anyway.
- TNA Impact and TNA Reaction aired on Bravo in the UK. That channel got bought out by Sky, who closed it down. As Sky already aired WWE, there was no room for TNA on their channels, so these two shows had been screwed into a No Export for You situation by the Sky network for a time until TNA was picked up by Challenge in February 2011.
- Slight correction: Sky picked up Challenge alongside Bravo (and their actual targets, the Living TV series of networks), so this was probably a matter of reshuffling programs. Indeed, if anything this was a good thing for TNA, since Challenge was later added to Freeview, which was in the process of replacing traditional terrestrial television. In other words, TNA has gone from being only available to people who pay a subscription to being available on nearly every television in the UK.
- TNA, as a television product, seems to be caught up in a complex mishmash of Screwed by the Network, Executive Meddling from said network, and their own bad decision making at any given time. For instance, Viacom and DirecTV having a squabble pulled Impact from the air. As Spike TV is owned by Viacom, and Impact was airing on that network, TNA lost viewership on the DirecTV side for a spell of two weeks.
- There's also all the forced angles and/or shilling Spike tried to wedge onto Impact, because it was one of their highest rated shows and they could exploit that to push other stuff they air. An example can be found in the 2013 Tito Ortiz/Rampage Jackson storyline that was really only there to promote a fight in Bellator MMA.
- Then, of course, there were the times TNA themselves were at fault. Such as when they moved Impact to Monday nights to try to run up against WWE Raw, when the ratings they pulled were nowhere close to being competitive. Or when Impact ended its run on Spike at the end of 2014 because, despite Spike executive mandate warning against it, the company chose to hire back Vince Russo. The flagrant disobedience caused Spike to pull any further contract renewal negotiations.
- WWE's Saturday Morning Slam on The CW's Vortexx was a last ditch effort by The CW (after they had dropped SmackDown several years before) to continue business relationships with the WWE. It was moderately successful despite being significantly toned down compared to RAW and SmackDown in order to both appease the children's fanbase, despite WWE's primary audience being adult men, and meet The CW's strict TV-Y7 guidelines for its children's programming. When time came for contractual renewals, The CW tried to Re Tool the program into a WWE news magazine rather than the taped matches it had during its run. WWE, understandably, rejected The CW's debasing proposal, and the inability to come up with a compromise led to the plug being pulled after just one season.
- In Canada, Lucha Underground got hit with this after it was picked up by Corus Entertainment's TLN. Perhaps owning to the show's seasonal format, TLN thought it was a good idea to air the show all the way back at season one, rather than premiere season two around the same time as El Rey Network in the United States. To be even more tedious, after originally airing the show on Sundays, TLN kept moving the show around its schedule. Throw in some limited advertising, and the fact that TLN is mostly geared to a general audience, and it was ensured that fans would stand a better chance of keeping up with the U.S broadcasts by sticking to illegal streams. More over, now that Netflix is streaming the first two seasons of the show in Canada, there's no need for fans to put up with the network's poor treatment of the past seasons anyways.
- Democracy Now was infamously, albeit temporarily, screwed over by Pacifica Radio in the year 2000 after Pacifica executives suddenly fired key staffers in the middle of the night and made its flagship station WBAI adopt an all-jazz format at the expense of its talk programs. Amy Goodman and others, fearing that this decision would allow Network Decay to set in, left WBAI in protest and temporarily Channel Hopped to another station. After five months of negotiations, Pacifica management caved and allowed Amy and her staff to return in January 2002.
- As of 2015, Pacifica Radio has been mired in public spats between presenters and executives over (among other things) promoting alt-med quackery and conspiracy theories; cutting hours and pay, and laying off some staffers, in violation of union rules; and failing to pay Amy Goodman an estimated $2.1 million in broadcast fees.
- Ronald Reagan's cuts to NPR's federal funding meant that the KUSC-FM radio play adaptation of Return of the Jedi got shelved for over a decade.
- In 2005, ESPN opted not to continue its relationship with the National Hockey League (fresh out of the lockout that canceled the entire 2004-05 season), and the cable rights were taken over by OLN (which then became Versus, and later still, NBC Sports), a channel dedicated to outdoor sports with distribution not as wide as ESPN's. When NBC finally offered to air the 2007 NHL playoffs, they cut away from a series-clinching playoff game IN OVERTIME to show 90 minutes of pre-race coverage of the Preakness Stakes, knocking the remainder of the game over to Versus (except in Buffalo, one of the NHL's smallest yet loyal markets, and Ottawa, where CBC knows better and didn't have such a conflict). Though thankfully, they've learned their lesson (and Versus, now known as the NBC Sports Network following Comcast's acquisition of NBC, has become a lot more established since.) The Preakness Stakes incident was Executive Meddling of its own, as NBC's contract with the race (negotiated years before, mind you) had advertising commitments.
- ESPN and ABC aren't exactly blameless for losing their NHL TV rights, though. Once they pulled some duplicitous tactics to yank broadcast rights away from FOX, both ESPN and ABC proceeded to ignore the league, giving it absolutely no advertising time on ABC and the bare minimum on ESPN. This behavior accelerated when ESPN and ABC got the rights to broadcast NBA games from NBC (coincidentally, the NHL's direct competitor for the winter months), with both networks making it clear they were prioritizing basketball over hockey. Then right as the 2004-05 NHL lockout started, ESPN canceled their NHL recap show NHL2night and refused to revive the show when the League approached them for a new cable deal after the labor dispute ended. With this kind of network screwing over a 6-7 year period, you cannot possibly blame the NHL for jumping to a more caring TV partner in Versus (although going with NBC is still inexcusable, as shown above). This blog entry goes into more detail about how Disney's networks screwed over the NHL, as well as the aforementioned dirty tactics used to screw FOX out of any TV rights.
- In 1991, NBC broke away from the NHL All-Star Game (from 1990-1994, NBC broadcast the All-Star Game, which was pretty much the only time that the NHL was nationally broadcast on over-the-air television in the United States outside of ESPN's paid programming on ABC during the 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons) in favor of a press conference from the Pentagon regarding the Gulf War. The previously unaired third period was rebroadcast on SportsChannel America. Unfortunately, SportsChannel America (who replaced ESPN as the NHL's primary cable broadcasting outlet in the United States in the 1988-89 season and continued through the 1991-92 season) was for all intents and purposes, a premium outlet that was available to about 1/4 less of the homes that ESPN was in at the time.
- Versus/NBC Sports Network at times has had problems carrying games, but mainly due to cable company quirks. In 2005 a quadruple overtime game was cut off in some markets after 3am ET when infomercials provided by the cable provider kicked in; after that the network disallowed infomercial substitution in the future. A May 2013 game airing on CNBC went unseen in the St. Louis market due to a switching problem. Other than that though, NBC and the NBC Sports Network have been downright kind compared to ESPN with the NHL.
- Indy Car has had a similar path when Versus picked up the load for most (but not all) of its events starting in 2009: ratings have been substantially lower due to Versus simply not being a well-known network (plus the Executive Meddling by the channel's owner, Comcast) even though viewers agree that Versus gives much better treatment to the series as opposed to ABC/ESPN(2); however, the ABC-aired races in 2009 (the Indy 500 and several other summer events) hadn't had as drastic a dropoff as the cable races and started to put a bit more effort into the broadcasts. Of course, a lot of this stems from Tony George's own Executive Meddling that caused the American open-wheel racing split from 1996-2008.
- With Versus re-branding as NBC Sports Network, becoming more established, and picking up Formula One racing too, IndyCar now has an open-wheeled companion on the schedule to draw more attention at least. But will this change when NASCAR returns to NBC?
- The Arena Football League may be another one screwed by NBC. After the network lost its NFL games to CBS in 1997 and the 2001 XFL debacle, NBC signed what looked like a good deal with the Arena League at the time (both sides would split ad revenues 50/50 instead of one side getting rights fees). NBC even convinced the league to move up its normal Summer schedule, saying the league could be promoted better if it started the week after the Super Bowl. But when the NFL came calling back to NBC in 2006, the network promptly forgot about the Arena League, leaving it to play at a time of year where it had to compete with the NBA, NHL, and college basketball for viewership. After returning to ESPN, the league suspended operations for the 2009, reviving in 2010 with half the previous teams choosing not to come back with it (the league slots were filled by teams coming from AF2, a secondary arena football league).
- Major League Baseball screwed themselves with their short-sighted television deals back in the early 1990s. First and foremost, MLB signed a $1.2 billion (approximately) deal with CBS for the next four years. They replaced ABC (who had covered Monday and later Thursday night baseball games consecutively since 1976) and NBC (who had covered Major League Baseball in some shape or form since 1947) as the national, broadcast TV outlet for Major League Baseball. Once CBS came into the picture, Major League Baseball, under the leadership of then outgoing Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, proceeded to systematically destroy the Saturday afternoon Game of the Week (a longtime institution on NBC). CBS became notorious for their sporadic regular season scheduling (often airing golf events on weeks in place of baseball). MLB's logic was that since a myriad of games were going to air on ESPN, the concept of a nationally televised Game of the Week was growing obsolete. When the dust was settled, CBS (who by the end of 1993, had also lost the National Football League to Fox, the National Basketball Association to NBC, and college football) lost at least, half a billion dollars off of that baseball deal. Despite all of this, CBS was willing to renew their contact with MLB for two more years. Unfortunately, mid-way through the 1993 season, MLB was already working on a revenue sharing joint-venture with ABC and NBC called "The Baseball Network". The Baseball Network was even worse than what CBS had to offer (with ABC and NBC each covering six weeks of regionalized coverage following the All-Star Break). Without going into full blown detail (check the Wikpedia article on The Baseball Network to get a proper perspective) here, all that you need to know first and foremost, is that the first two rounds of the playoffs were regionally televised simultaneously. Perhaps the one positive thing to come out of the 1994-95 baseball strike, was that it hastened the premature demise of The Baseball Network (which was supposed to run through the 1999 season). Shortly afterwards, both ABC and NBC (who had to split coverage of the 1995 World Series) publicly vowed to have nothing more to do with Major League Baseball for at least the remainder of the 20th century. NBC however reluctantly (they could only be bothered to show postseason games and the All-Star Game in even numbered years) reconsidered and wound up sharing the broadcast rights with Fox through the end of the 2000 season.
- Reluctantly is putting it mildly. When the 1997 World Series ended up being played by two small-market teams (Florida and Cleveland), NBC's West Coast head Don Ohlmeyer publicly declared that he hoped it would end in a four-game sweep, since even a fifth game would mean pre-empting his precious "Must See TV" Thursday lineup. (He didn't get his wish; the Series went the full seven games.)
- In Australia, the Seven Network's screwing of the National Soccer League led to the entire competition eventually collapsing in 2004. The channel bought the rights for a pay television sports channel, but after they lost the rights to Australian Rules Football, they shut down the pay tv channel, and never bothered airing the soccer in any regular fashion, and never live. A highlight package after midnight on Wednesdays was the best the coverage got at times. A network slogan at the time was parodied with the phrase "Nobody screws soccer like Seven."
- It is actually worse than simply 'shutting down the channel', the NSL was deliberately screwed over by the network. In a subsequent lawsuit over the failure of the pay tv channel, the network executives were exposed via emails showing that they were angry that the managers of Australian Rules Football were not giving them enough credit for buying the National Soccer League rights then burying the sport.
- ONE HD's coverage of The National Basketball League games has fallen into this when it was announcing in October 2011 that all NBL games aired on One HD would be delayed which angered fans. One HD the following month announced that all NBL games would be delayed EVEN FURTHER to 1:00 AM-2:00 AM, Which pissed off more fans. NBL fans are now trying to boycott the channel.
- Formula One has always had prime spots on the BBC since it's most loved in the UK, showing all the races and qualifying since the start (excusing the brief time it went to ITV (which meant there were adverts during the races)). From 2011 and 2018 only half of the races will be shown on the BBC whilst Sky Sports (a channel one would have to pay a lot for, including their television license) will show all the races and the qualifying. Within the first month a Sports site did a poll to find out people's reaction. Fifty per cent said they refused to watch the races on Sky.
- In Brazil, Rede Globo broadcasts basically every race. A few still end up screwed, usually for overlapping with games of the Brazilian Soccer Championship (a particularly bad example was in a late race in 2012, when the champion had already been set in the field but not on the track, and Association Football still took priority over the cars), but in 2013 a race wasn't shown because of... the visit of Pope Francis!
- Pro Bull Riding got screwed by the networks. Originally, full events were shown on Versus, but new licensing deals mean events are now shown on NBC, NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus), CBS, and the PBR's own streaming online broadcast site. Often a single event will be divided up between two of these outlets, making it extremely difficult for fans to keep track of. And in football season pray CBS doesn't have a game on in your market, or else PBR is pre-empted entirely.
- The Fan Nicknamed Heidi Bowl where, in November 1968, NBC broke away from the final minutes of a much-anticipated American Football League match up between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to air Heidi, causing most fans to miss the Raiders' Miracle Rally. Ever since, it's been network policy not to break away from a live sporting event. At least until 2007 (see the NHL entry above).
- The 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Bank of America 500 was a victim of this. The first 25 laps as well as NASCAR Countdown were pre-empted due to the college football game (TCU versus Baylor) running long. And it couldn't have been shown on the other ESPN networks, either; considering that they were all airing games of their ownnote . Talk about overbooking...
- Quite a few old guard racing fans feel North Wilkesboro Speedway, the very first NASCAR-sanctioned racetrack, was screwed out of both its NASCAR Cup race dates in 1995. Bruton Smith was building a big new speedway in North Texas, but NASCAR was adamantly refusing to add races to the schedule to accommodate the new track. So he bought up the share of Wilkesboro owned by the Combs family, supposedly claiming he planned to keep the place open by expanding its capacity and using it for a primetime mid-week race while only giving up its spring date to Texas. But his purchase drove the Staley family (whose patriarch and track founder, Enoch, had died that May) to sell their share in the track to New Hampshire Speedway owner Bob Bahre. With that, New Hampshire got Willkesboros fall race while Texas got its spring date beginning in 1997. However, others associated with the sport have justified the move, citing Wilkesboros lack of modern facilities (the press box still used rotary phones, according to journalists) and the high risk-low reward of racing there given its small purse and toll the short track put on racecars.
- Not a sports example technically, but NBC shot down Poker After Dark, a late-night broadcast of poker games sponsored by online casino company Full Tilt Poker, without any warning or hints. While some pin the show's cancellation on declining ratings, fueled in part by affiliates refusing to broadcast the program over their anti-gambling policies, the real culprit was when sponsors Full Tilt were caught in a federal criminal investigation over charges of money laundering and setting up Ponzi schemes on its customers. NBC, desperate to clean their hands off the matter, promptly replaced Poker After Dark with a repeat of the fourth hour of Today, not telling the press about the matter or anyone who worked on the telecasts that they would be dropped by the network. Sister cable network NBC Sports Network began airing reruns of Poker After Dark following its re-branding from Versus in 2012, eventually broadcast the unaired episodes of the show's final season, and continued airing repeats of the series on midnights for a couple of years before it disappeared forever.
- Televisión Española was showing Severiano Ballesteros' run in the US Masters when it suddenly decided to cut off the signal to a horse race... which lasted through Ballesteros winning the tournament.
- The National Football League's contracts with its media partners can cause networks to postpone or pre-empt programming of their own in order to air football games in case of postponements or emergencies from the NFL. For instance, NBC originally scheduled an episode of the Dateline news program about the Ross Harris trial for January 15, 2017, but two days before airing, an ice storm in Kansas City caused the delay of a Kansas City-Pittsburgh Steelers game that day to prime-time. Because of NBC's contractual obligations to the NFL, they decided to postpone the Dateline special to air the Chiefs/Steelers game.
Tabletop Games
- At the heyday of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition in the 1990s, TSR had Lorraine Williams as their CEO, who made no secret her disdain both for gamers and the people that worked under her. Among many things that caused Dungeons & Dragons and TSR to be run into the ground before being mercifully bought out by Wizards of the Coast were:
- Suing people left and right, including people who ran message boards for talking about Dungeons & Dragons on the internet on the basis that it was their intellectual property. This prevented new people from discovering the game through Internet word-of-mouth, gave their competitors who were using the new medium to promote their products an edge, and disenchanted fans.
- Lorraine Williams devoted a great deal of company resources to publishing and promoting the Buck Rogers RPG, as the heiress whose estate owned the rights to the Buck Rogers IP got royalties for every Buck Rogers supplement published and sold. That heiress? Lorraine Williams.
- TSR's solution to declining sales was to publish new settings. The problem was that the settings, modules, and rules that governed them were so incompatible with each other that the player base became fragmented. For instance, a Planescape fan would have no use for modules meant for the Birthright setting.
- Licensing terrible games, with Baldur's Gate being a notable exception and becoming the string holding the franchise together. It probably could have gotten more people into the hobby if message boards about the game didn't have to censor comments about the tabletop version for fear of lawsuits.
- Nepotism ran rampant in the company, which resulted in unqualified managers.
- Game designers were often forbidden by Williams to use company time to play test products, on the reasoning that playtesting was just an excuse for the peasants to get paid to play games.
- Jeff Grubb as one of their top designers had something to say about this. Especially nice here are #19A "going into competition with our own licensees was a bit of a tradition at TSR" and #20 "went to my Vice President and asked why an employee was doing outside work for another company that they didn't like anymore". So bad that everyone who didn't already know they're jerks was in for it and that well-aimed bureaucratic obfuscation was the only way to get things done at all?
- Alternity was a generic RPG produced by TSR in last few years of their operations. And was already used as a source of "how to improve xD&D mess" ideas. When WOTC took over in 2000, they killed the system and cannibalized the settings into their d20 modern line so that it didn't compete against it.
- The most common complaints against Games Workshop for their Warhammer 40,000 release schedule is that Space Marine armies always take precedence over non-Marine armies. The main Space Marine book has always been one of the first books updated in every edition change, while other armies have been languishing in Development Hell for almost as long as a decade.
- An interesting subversion to the Codex: Space Marines are First trend is in 6th Edition. Chaos Space Marines were the first to arrive, followed by Dark Angels (subfaction of Space Marines) and the alien Tau race and then the Chaos Daemons, all before Space Marines. Still, it's no less than two Space Marine derivative armies to mark the 6th edition.
- In 2014, Dark Elder got their second new codex since their initial debut in 3rd edition, having received their 6th edition codex after a whopping ten years without an update. And in 7e, they got majorly screwed, with the codex being ripped to shreds to provide fodder for two codexes (Dark Elder and Haemonculus Coven) and roughly two thirds of their special characters, including long-runner Asdrubael Vect, getting pruned from the codex. This has led to a huge backlash from the fans.
- The Sisters of Battle has almost become a meme on how forgotten and mistreated their faction is, despite having one of the most vocal fanbases. Generally, they are portrayed as bystanders at best in any stories that have them, while being cannon fodder at worst. Like the Inquisition, they received a bare-bones codex update that brought them in line with the new rules, but only a digital release and no new units or models. Speaking of new models, they're forgotten for so long that their last model was from 3rd edition. Their newest codex was released in 6th. On top of that, they've also lost models from the range; the Dialogus and Immolator no longer have models that you can purchase legitimately; you'll have to either convert them on your own, buy second hand or resort to third-party vendors. The irony of the whole situation is that the Sisters of Battle is one of the few largely original IP Games Workshop still has but it's one of the least defended ones (which is saying something, since they defend their IP like EA does).
- CCP's financial troubles in 2011, largely clustered around expensive microtransactions and an incomplete Incarna expansion to EVE Online, resulted in nearly 20% of the company's staff being laid off, including a number of people working at White Wolf, who they'd entered a business partnership with in 2006. Close to the same time, the general market for tabletop games and traditionally published works hit a major downturn, and WW made the transition from traditional print to PDF and publish-on-demand in order to stay afloat. One of the WW staffers, Rich Thomas, set up his own tabletop RPG company, Onyx Path, and licensed or bought most of WW's properties from CCP.
- Exalted 2e also had an issue with the network screwing its writing staff. The game's already touchy mechanics are unforgiving to poorly-written Charms or Artifacts, and at least one freelancer was hired early in development without having access to the basic combat system rules. The Second Edition Sidereals' author didn't have enough time with the new mechanics to understand the importance of Keywords. Another author — reliably and consistently unnamed by Holden Shearer, the poor man who had to take the resulting hatemail — was responsible for several poorly written charms, including the terribad Solar Charms in Dreams of the First Age, and remained on the mechanics team until Scroll of Fallen Races, which at one point explained the functioning of a keyword, then failed to include any powers that actually used said keyword.
- Exalted also had problems due to the network not bothering to enforce any kind of consistency or make the writers talk to each other. Numerous books displayed a staggering lack of internal consistency, with Infernals being split pretty much exactly down the middle between "Infernals are evil bastards with few to no redeeming features" and "Infernals are messed-up and damaged people, but while their stuff may usually look evil, they're not actually evil in application, so long as you direct them at people worse than you".
- Exalted 2e also had an issue with the network screwing its writing staff. The game's already touchy mechanics are unforgiving to poorly-written Charms or Artifacts, and at least one freelancer was hired early in development without having access to the basic combat system rules. The Second Edition Sidereals' author didn't have enough time with the new mechanics to understand the importance of Keywords. Another author — reliably and consistently unnamed by Holden Shearer, the poor man who had to take the resulting hatemail — was responsible for several poorly written charms, including the terribad Solar Charms in Dreams of the First Age, and remained on the mechanics team until Scroll of Fallen Races, which at one point explained the functioning of a keyword, then failed to include any powers that actually used said keyword.
- Vee Entertainment has a tendency to do this to shows that aren't Sesame Street Live. Barney Live in Concert only toured in select parts of the United States (along with Toronto, Canada), while Curious George Live! and Kids Bop Live! had their tours cancelled without notice. A touring Hello Kitty convention produced by the company was also cancelled after only three stops. The only aversions that VEE has done were My Little Pony: The World's Biggest Tea Party! and The Muppet Show Live!, where both tours' last stop was Madison Square Garden, as well as producing DVD releases of the Bear in the Big Blue House and My Little Pony shows.
- The same thing Vee did happened to a few other companies' shows. Alvin And The Chipmunks and the Amazing Computer only stopped in a handful of cities including Chicago, while some of the Ice Capades shows have never come to any of the Mexican or Canadian border states, mainly the ones featuring Teddy Ruxpin and Barbie.
Theme Parks
Disney Theme Parks
- In 2005, Disney, J. K. Rowling and Warner Bros. were in negotiations to create a Harry Potter theme park in Singapore. Around that time, then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who was the main architect of the negotiations, was fired and replaced with Bob Iger, who had little care for Harry Potter and significantly downsized the project to just a single ride, where guests could shoot at screens with interactive wands. Naturally, Rowling rejected Disney's plans and the negotiations broke down. Warner and Rowling eventually got better treatment when they went to Universal Studios, who proceeded to create The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which became a major threat for Disney's place in the Orlando theme park market in the years that followed.
- The closure of Disneyland's iconic PeopleMover in 1995 was part of an attempt to revamp Tomorrowland (which, in reality, was more or less a replication of their Paris park's "Discoveryland"), the attraction's residing area. Its replacement, Rocket Rods, was marred with mechanical issues, and park-goers ravaged the ride for its constant breakdowns and potential damage to the PeopleMover structure it utilized. The ride closed just two years in operation, from 1998 to 2000. It is today regarded as one of Disney's biggest failures in amusement park history, and it's telling by Disney's refusal to acknowledge its existence.
- Journey Into Imagination was closed in 1998 despite it being the park's most popular attraction due to sponsorship issues. A year before the closing, Fujifilm, the rival of the ride's original sponsor, Kodak, wanted to turn the ride into a rollercoaster unrelated to the original concept. Kodak did not want to lose their sponsorship, so they wanted to make a cheaper version of the ride focused more on the science behind imagination. Disney accepted the latter company's idea and reopened the ride in 1999. Visitors did not like how the ride removed Dreamfinder and Figment (though he did have cameos during the constellation scene and at the end of the ride) and felt it was nothing but a tie-in to Honey, I Shrunk The Audience by theming it around the Imagination Institute. They also felt that the new Image Works after the ride was nothing but an ad for Kodak's products. After Disney heard all these complaints, they shut down the ride and revamped it again to be about Figment ruining an open house tour of the Imagination Institute, which recieved mixed reception and is viewed nowadays as a ride that you either like or a ride that you don't like at all. The revamp was eventually made pointless in 2010, when Kodak decided to drop sponsorship of the ride anyway despite spending all the years prior trying to keep it.
Universal Studios
- The Creature of the Black Lagoon stage show in Universal Studios Hollywood had its run cut short when the theater it was housed in caught fire and was forced to close. An investigation revealed Universal rarely cared about the theater's condition and ignored multiple safety violations. As a result, Universal was forced to revamp the theater, and a year worth of millions of dollars later, the refreshed and much-more successful Special Effects Stages opened in the theater.
- Despite its popularity, the Hollywood version of Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time was shuttered so that Universal could make a clone of Florida's Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem. It's possible Universal wanted to cut licensing fees for the Terminator franchise (which is not owned by Universal) while increasing the value of their own IP, so while the Japan and Florida rides (their two bigger markets) remained, the Hollywood ride wasn't very lucky.
- Universal Studios Florida closed The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera and Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies in 2002 and 2003 respectively, citing lower attendance for both attractions despite being the most popular with Universal enthusiasts. Their respective replacements? Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast and Shrek 4-D, two of the most polarizing rides the park had ever opened (not helped by the fact that Universal had little to no involvement in either ride's development), and ended up laying the groundwork for the park's drive toward intellectual property-driven attractions. While Neutron was eventually shuttered to make way for Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem in 2012, to the rejoice of many, the Shrek 4-D ride remains to this day. The attractions ended up serving as examples of everything wrong with Universal during its decade-long Dork Age.
- The Shrek 4-D attraction at the Hollywood park got its queue and pre-show screwed in 2015 when Universal decided to add a real-time Donkey animatronic interact with the guests in the queue. Many complained over how annoying it was, and were caught off by the truncated pre-show with no backstory whatsoever.
Web Original
- YouTube bots have taken Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series down at least one dozen times by now due to bogus copyright claims, all from the same bot.
- The Nostalgia Critic was pulled from YouTube due to numerous copyright claims where the show continued on Blip.tv and That Guy with the Glasses. It's (officially) back on YouTube though.
- The above scenarios have gotten so bad that "Where's The Fair Use?" has become popular on YouTube, due to there being zero repercussions for those that file a false claim, while those targeted by such claims have to deal with headache upon headache, including lost revenue and possibly losing their channel entirely.
- Several Channel Awesome contributors (including JesuOtaku) saw their accounts lost in the great Blip purge of 2014.
- The worst one of late was when Team Four Star lost their channel entirely due to receiving 4 strikes in a short time period over Dragon Ball Z Abridged, which has the Approval of God from Funimation, the current holder of the English dub's copyright. This was quickly reversed due to a lot of public pressure.
- Even Channel Awesome itself is guilty of this: several contributors were either fired from the site due to misunderstandings (including Allison Pregler and Pan-Pizza of Rebel Taxi, the latter of whom hadn't even uploaded a video yet) or quit because of mistreatment (such as Phelous).
- The above scenarios have gotten so bad that "Where's The Fair Use?" has become popular on YouTube, due to there being zero repercussions for those that file a false claim, while those targeted by such claims have to deal with headache upon headache, including lost revenue and possibly losing their channel entirely.
- Tired of not appearing on television, WWE Superstar Zack Ryder made a YouTube show called Z! True Long Island Story. It became so popular, that Zack Ryder became one of the most talked about personalities in wrestling at the time. He got tons of merchandise, and WWE was forced to turn him face and he would go on to win the United States Championship. Even a co-star, The Big O ended up appearing on TNA Impact as a Gutcheck participant. This all came to an end however when Zack Ryder moved his show to the official WWE channel. The company then proceeded to constantly edit and reject his episodes, causing them to be missing scenes that the WWE found would not be good for the company's image. There was so much Executive Meddling that Zack Ryder would constantly take to Twitter to explain why every other episode had long delays in uploading by WWE's constant rejections. Zack Ryder was no longer motivated to even do the show anymore, but WWE forced him to continue until it finally ended after 100 episodes.
- This trope is the reason Apple created its own retail stores. One of the problems compounding the company's Dork Age in The '90s was a lack of attractive displays in stores. Retailers devoted floor space to more popular (and profitable) PCs instead of Macs, usually relegating them to a corner of the store, if they sold them at all. They also often left the machines turned off, crashed, or set them up without a mouse, leading to an unfavorable first impression with potential buyers. Apple stores were created to give Macs and other Apple products an aesthetically pleasing showcase.
- Jumbo Pictures, producer of many fine Nickelodeon and Disney cartoons and shows, can be said to have been screwed by both Disney and Nickelodeon. The company started out producing Slice of Life puppet shows like Gullah Gullah Island and Allegra's Window, and animated shows like Doug for Nickelodeon. However Nickelodeon started showing less interest in educational values and more towards generic slapstick as time went on, and Jumbo's terms with Nick started degrading. Disney then made them dump Nick and subsequently bought them over. So far so good, right? After Disney's version of Doug, Jojos Circus and PB&J Otter, Disney went against their wishes and used some of their characters in a music video that aired on multiple children's channels entitled "We Are Family: A Musical Message for All". They've broke up with Disney and renamed themselves Cartoon Pizza, although their only success since then was Pinky Dinky Doo, done in partnership with Sesame Workshop.
In-Universe Examples:
- American Flagg!: Reuben Flagg, star of the hit series Mark Thrust, Sexus Ranger loses his job to his own CGI Tromplographic duplicate, then gets drafted into the actual Plexus Rangers.
- Lampshaded In-Universe in Calvin and Hobbes: The Series:
- The Mr. Potato Head Show: happens often, with the TV executives changing their minds about things in the middle of filming an episode of Mr. Potato Head's Show Within a Show, such as telling them that their superhero episode needs to be educational or a musical.
- Seinfeld: Jerry and George had been pushing for a long time to get their "show about nothing" approved by NBC. Finally, their first episode is aired and is successful. However, at the same time, the head executive who had approved the show goes AWOL and is replaced by a vindictive woman who cancels the show out of spite.
- The Splinter: The network in charge of the games in the Realm has zero problems with killing players for the sake of boosting ratings and creating drama. Keep in mind, dying in the game means you die in real life. It's tough to get screwed harder than that.


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Hugo Rosales
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
"The social services that JUNTOS has provided to children, the elderly, schools, and hospitals, among others, through dance, has been essential in bringing young people with initiative together to collaborate on a project. Personally, JUNTOS has inspired me and given me confidence that with hard work and discipline, faith and hope, dreams are possible."
"La ayuda social que JUNTOS a brindado a niños, ancianos, escuelas, y hospitales, entre otros, por medio de la danza, ha sido esencial en unir jóvenes y personas con iniciativa de colaborar en un proyecto. Personalmente JUNTOS me ha inspirado y dado confianza que con trabajo y disciplina, fe y esperanza, los sueños son posibles."
Hugo started dancing urban dance at age 12. At 22, he started working long-term with national and international teachers, coaches and even salsa world champions. He also received ballroom dancing courses: Viennese Waltz, Chachacha, Rumba, Paso Doble, Tango Argentino. Hugo is a competitor in international congresses of salsa and bachata. He works as a teacher in several places: Quetzaltenango, Panajachel, Antigua, and one of the most prestigious schools in Guatemala City. Currently, Hugo is working on various projects at music and dance schools as a choreographer and dancer. He established the Giving Smiles project, a project to collect and donate toys at Christmas to children of low income, such as classes to benefit Children's Homes or to collect food. He has taken workshops in ballet and contemporary dance, participating for five years in the workshops of JUNTOS Collective. JUNTOS has been very influential in his professional and personal training.

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Definition of 'ethnic minority'
Example sentences containing 'ethnic minority'
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The same is true of racial and ethnic minorities.
Sociology (1995)Simply seeing white strangers interacting positively with ethnic minorities reduces racial prejudice.
Times, Sunday Times (2014) Times, Sunday Times (2009)Most ethnic minority groups were on average more likely to attend selective universities than white pupils.
Times, Sunday Times (2015) The Sun (2015)Most of the cartoon figures depicting peers are from ethnic minority groups and one is in a wheelchair.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)The idea of monitoring is that records should be kept of those in racial and ethnic minorities who are employed in the organization.
Personnel Management: A New Approach (1991)What about other under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities and the disabled?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)The same is true of female genital mutilation, practised in this country by various ethnic minority groups.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)It could have been difficult being an ethnic minority in a small seaside town, but she always made me feel unique and special.
The Sun (2010)Educational disadvantages, for example, continue to affect racial and ethnic minorities as they pursue employment opportunities.
Human Resource Management in Government (1995)The report said that unlike other ethnic minority groups, English was often not spoken in family homes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)The changes would give our Armed Forces the same added protection against discrimination as ethnic minorities and religious groups.
The Sun (2014)Most children said that they trusted the information provided on websites, although children from ethnic minority groups who took part in the survey were more sceptical.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)It targets issues and cases involving those who are mentally ill or learning disabled, women, racial and ethnic minorities.
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X-Rated Movie ''Faithless'' Starring Former Miss USA/NBC Soap Star Turned Porn Star Kelli McCarty Now in Stores and At KelliUSA.com. Sizzling Movie from Vivid Entertainment is First Ever ''Reverse Crossover'' from Mainstream to Adult. (LOS ANGELES, CA) -- Kelli McCarty, the first-ever ''reverse crossover'' actress to leave mainstream acting to do porn, will show the world how sexy she is starting today, when her Vivid movie ''Faithless'' goes on sale in stores across the country and online at KelliUSA.com. Visitors to Ms. McCarty's website can watch a trailer for the movie and order it for downloading. Prior to making her first hard core movie, Kelli McCarty was known for her Miss USA title and for six years as the villainess Beth Wallace on the NBC daytime drama ''Passions.'' ''There isn't anything we could have taught Kelli,'' said Steven Hirsch, co- chairman of Vivid, the world's leading adult film studio. ''She is naturally sexy and knows how to heat up the screen big time so that the viewer gets turned on from the minute she appears on the scene.'' Legendary adult director Paul Thomas, who directed Kelli in ''Faithless,'' said ''Kelli's acting experience definitely gave her an erotic edge in this movie. Her love of sex made a believer out of me.'' Ms. McCarty was involved in creating the screenplay and in casting the movie, as well as working closely with Thomas on the direction of ''Faithless.'' The plot follows ''Callie'' (McCarty) at a tipping point in her marriage, when she seeks revenge on her unfaithful husband by seducing her stepdaughter's boyfriend. ''I didn't consult with any of my friends or family when I decided that I wanted to make an adult movie. I just did my research and decided that I wanted to do it with Vivid. Now that word of the movie is getting out, I'm starting to get calls and text messages from friends telling me that they can't wait to see it,'' said Kelli. About Vivid: Founded in 1984, Vivid Entertainment Group is the world's leading adult film company and is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Vivid has always placed heavy emphasis on high quality erotic film entertainment and has created wide brand-name awareness through its films and through a licensing and marketing program that extends to advertising, apparel, book publishing and a range of other products. The studio's website www.vivid.com has an enormous and loyal following of fans of the Vivid Girls. For more information contact email@example.com.
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Cancel Trident replacement
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The UK's Trident nuclear weapon system is ageing and will become unusable. The UK government are planning a like-for-like replacement of the system, which will cost approximately £25 billion to design and build, followed by running costs of £1.5 billion per year.
Nuclear weapons promise disproportionate humanitarian harm. Beyond blast and heat, nuclear weapons produce ionising radiation. The experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki show that a small nuclear warhead (small relative to Trident) can cause cancer on a mass scale. A major nuclear exchange could render the planet uninhabitable.
In the past, the UK has stopped using certain weapon types, such as biological weapons. This petition calls on the UK government to do the same with nukes. It asks that politicians stop posturing and cancel Trident replacement.
Read about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons
NB. Once this petition has reached 1000 signatures, it will be forwarded to the defence and foreign affairs teams of the three largest parties
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While the Nationals and Mets largely looked to maintain their spots atop the NL East, the Marlins, Phillies and Braves continued to rebuild.
Atlanta Braves Front Office
Jose Quintana continues to be mentioned in trade rumors as Opening Day approaches.
The Braves have made a number of attempts to sign Angel Pagan as a reserve, but he has yet to accept.
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Usman Khan (Interim Director)
Usman was appointed Interim Director in April 2016. He is currently Managing Director of Modus Europe a European Public Policy Consultancy, an organisation providing strategic public policy advice and undertakes related economic and policy studies with a particular focus on health and social care. Usman has over twenty years public policy and management experience. He has held Board Director positions in public, private and not for profit organisations and has experience of leading significant change management projects in a number of countries. He currently holds a non-executive position within the NHS and is Professorial Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at George Washington University.
Michele Calabro' (Policy and Projects Officer)
Michele joined EHMA in January 2016. Passionate about EU policies and integration, Michele holds a Bachelor in Public Administration and a MA in International Relations and European Studies (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy). Before joining EHMA, Michele worked in Malta as EU Project assistant at dConsulta and then as European Semester Officer Assistant at the European Commission Representation in Valletta. At EHMA, Michele coordinates communication and EU-funded projects activities including SUSTAIN and IC-Health.
Lejla Dizdarevic (Events and Communication Assistant)
Lejla is passionate about journalism, radio and theatre. She holds a BA in Communication Studies at the American University in Bulgaria, with a minor in Arts and Literature and a MA in Journalism and New Media in the EU in Brussels. Lejla is fluent in English, French and Serbian. She joined EHMA in October 2016 as Communication and Events Assistant and organises EHMA's 2017 Annual Conference in Milan as well as the other EHMA events.
Aurora Mantas Horcas (Membership and Governance Assistant)
Aurora joined EHMA in October 2016 as Membership and Governance Assistant. She comes from Spain and recently graduated in MA European Studies at the KU Leuven. Aurora is enthusiastic about social integration and civic participation, and has both academic and professional experience in intercultural and migration policy practice.
Maurice Hameleers (Policy and Projects Assistant)
Maurice joined EHMA in October 2016 as policy and project assistant. He holds a masters degree in Change Management from the Rotterdam School of Management and an advanced masters degree in EU politics from the University of Leuven. At EHMA, Maurice predominantly works on the IC-Health project and he writes for the EHMA newsletter.
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Our German midfield marauder naturally walked out of Wembley Stadium a happy man on Saturday night after Germany's 1-0 win against England in the World Cup qualifying match.
In the end Wembley's finale was somewhat of a damp squib and the day was capped by Kevin Keegan's shock resignation.
Former German international and Euro96 winner Freund is as equipped as anyone in the German camp — he gave coach Rudi Voller a few pointers before the game last week - to comment on England having played in the Premiership at the Lane for 18 months since his arrival from Borussia Dortmund in January 1999.
Having watched from the stands, he said: "I would say England is better than what they showed against Germany but if you play at home and you have to win then there is a lot of pressure now in football.
"I don't think England closed down well enough to win the ball back in the German half. Then you bring pressure to the German defence and then you have chances. The English team did not do enough.
"If you want to win you have to do more and I think this is the key. More closing down, more fight - even for the people in the stadium."
To listen to Steffen's views on England, click here
Read and listen to Steffen Freund's full views in his weekly column for the Official SpursWebsite in our analysis section.
28 February 2017 15:54
Kevin Wimmer believes Harry Kane is performing even better than last season – and admitted he prefers being a team-mate than an opponent of the deadly striker in training!
11 January 2017 15:12
Ben Davies knows better than most about the virtue of patience in football.
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Introducing the Plastic Beasts
Thursday, August 26, 2010I would like to introduce you to my new friends. From left to right we have Ermintrude the Cow, Maurice* and Sid the Soda Beast. Sid is purely vegan and the product of my dearest drinking way too much soda. The others are more vegetarian, rather than vegan, due to their curly milk bottle lid horns and antlers.
Little E refers to this gaggle as her Monsters. They moved in a few weeks ago and have been keeping careful watch over her bed. I have been slowly working on a tutorial for these plastic beasts and vegan taxidermy. I will hopefully have it ready to share soon.


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When writing a new post or page, we should make it easier to link to internal content (a previous post or page). The "Easy Post-to-Post Links" plugin enables shortcuts based on post ID or slug, but I'm envisioning something more user-friendly.
Something like you click a button for an internal link (though it should be same mechanism as for external link, possibly the popup could be sectioned or tabbed for external vs internal) and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content by title, date, author, etc. and select it for inclusion. It would allow you to enter the text you wanted linked, or would use the post title by default, maybe.
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MCoS Multicultural Honours Highlights Intercultural Connections
MCoS Multicultural Honours Highlights Intercultural Connections Over 100 people gathered at Government House in Regina on Saturday, November 14th to celebrate and recognize significant volunteer contributions to multiculturalism in Saskatchewan. This annual flag-ship event for MCoS, is hosted by Her Honour the Honourable Vaughn Solomon Schofield, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. It is always a joyous celebration […]
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Have worked with most commercial engines on the market including Google Search Appliance, FAST ESP, Autonomy IDOL, Autonomy/Verity K2 and Ultraseek, Endeca, Dieselpoint.
Have worked with Lucene since... way back... and with Solr since '08.
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$3.70$1.70This book covers everything there is to know about genealogy and it's easy for the average person follow! In fact, some people have called it the "Genealogy Manual "!
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Simply Spring
Our Spring catalog containing a nice selection of flowers and gardening items. Also includes various candies and items for the kitchen.
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Best In Class
Our cookie dough program featuring the well known Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough. You will know it the second you taste one. Experience for yourself why people ask for them by name.
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Our frozen food shopper featuring Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough, Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Club's Choice pizzas.
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A great collection of chocolates, snacks, dry mix soups and desserts and gourmet coffees!
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National Asssociation of the Remodeling Industry executive vice president Mary Busey Harris will resign from her post on April 30 to spend more time with her family.
As part of the move, Harris will relocate to South Carolina from the organization headquarters in Des Plaines, Il.
NARI has already begun their search for a successor with Harris's help. The winning candidate will have five or more years of non-profit leadership experience to guide the organization into 2014, where analysts predict double digit home improvement spending in the U.S.


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i gave my all to you and just a little bit of your heart was all that I'm asking for return.......he did gave me more than I have asked for but was he too late?
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Cars > Challenges > "The Lumie" Vs "Monty"
1993 Chevrolet Z34
"The Lumie"
1980 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Head to Head
About "The Lumie"
This the family every day driver. I didn't know what a Z34 was until after I bought it. It was just a very sporty looking car.
About "Monty"
This was gona be my first car but due to title problmes it wasnt. The car has been sitting on my familys shop for 12 years and noody ever came back to pick it up. I was working on geting a lean on it to get the title but got sick of waiting. I had big plans for it if I ever got it but it needs alot of work and would take alot of time that I dont have.
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I love gingerbread. Here are 9 previous post and links to projects and recipes from past years, though there are so many...more than nine, I had to create a 'gingerbread' label. I don't know why. I don't need to know why. It's a pretty innocent love. So, when I saw this recipe on Peabody's site, and I knew it was speaking my language. I love gingerbread cookies, but I especially like SOFT gingerbread cookies. These were easy, and they did not disappoint!
Gingerbread Button Cookie RecipeIngredients: 3 c. flour, 2 t. ginger, 1 t. cinnamon, 1 t. baking soda, 1/4 t. nutmeg, 1/4 t. salt, 3/4 c. (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature, 3/4 c. packed brown sugar, 1/2 c. molasses, 1 egg, 1/4 c. sugar,.
1 t. vanilla, 1 c. white chocolate chips (I used melting chocolate that comes in round pellets/various colors)
1. Mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt in a big bowl.
2. Beat butter and brown sugar in a bowl with mixer on med. until light and fluffy (I never got it to be light and fluffy, I had to use a rubber spatula to finish combining it together, maybe my butter wasn't quite soft enough).
3. Add molasses, egg and vanilla to butter mix and beat well.
4. Slowly add in flour mixture on low until well mixed.
5. Press dough into a thick flat disk. Wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
6. Preheat oven to 350°F.
7. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and roll in sugar. Place on ungreased baking sheets. You should be able to make about 4 dozen cookies.
8. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges of cookies just begin to brown.
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Join Peppa in this exciting new preschool cinema experience, with plenty of snorts, giggles and jumping up and down in muddy puddles! Leading with Peppa Visits London, the first of the never-before-seen episodes, Peppa and her friends hop on board a double-decker red bus as the Queen takes them on an unforgettable tour of iconic London landmarks including Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square. The other new 'oink-tastic' episodes include 'The Police, 'Canal Boat', 'The Zoo', 'Move to the Music' and a four-part story in which viewers will join Peppa on an Australian holiday to visit her old friend, Kylie Kangaroo.
Join Peppa for her 'First Cinema Experience' during opening weekend and you get something a little extra for your little ones, free Peppa Pig sticker sets.
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Alpine Kiwanis will host its 60th Annual Easter Breakfast
60th Annual Easter Breakfast
(Alpine) – Alpine Kiwanis will host its 60th Annual Easter Breakfast on April 20, from 7 to 11:30 am, at the Alpine Elementary School, 1850 Alpine Boulevard, in Alpine.
Youngsters can dye eggs, decorate cookies, hunt for plastic eggs filled with rewards and hang out with the Easter Bunny.
You're invited to hop on over to enjoy pancakes, sausage, eggs and more—all while benefitting local charities and events sponsored by Kiwanis.
Tickets are available for a $5 donation for adults and $2 for children 12 and younger. For more information, go to www.alpinekiwanis.org.
Alpine Kiwanis President Brent Wolf said the annual Easter morning community tradition was started in 1954 by Carmelo Manuele, who was then the club's president. Manuele joined the new foothills Kiwanis club in 1951, 13 days after it started. Always busy, the Kiwanis Club of Alpine is the third largest one in the California-Nevada-Hawaii Kiwanis district. Its 130+ members are known for their dedicated community service.
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