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G4 holdouts

I went looking today and the only place I could find where G4 (and curiously enough G4HD) seem to still be part of the channel lineup is ATT uverse. The schedules show them going out to at least late january. Does anyone know of any other carriers that will continue with it after the 9th of January? Or are there any Uverse customers who have seen drop notices for the channel? 209.163.167.156 (talk) 20:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Currently no programing is listed past Feb 19th 2014 on their website. We will have to check back to see if the station is finally dead on the 19th. Also g4.tv now directs over to http://tv.esquire.com/. I don't think it will be long before G4 is gone. --LukeBK (talk) 02:02, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Source for WWE buyout

The best original source for the negotiations between G4 and WWE was deadline. This article has them recently repeating their earlier claims. [[1]] Does anyone have negative views on the reliability of deadline as a source? By her bio, the reporter of the piece seems a reliable source as she has a long career including working at Investors Business Daily and the Hollywood Reporter covering television. The next best source would be The Pro Wrestling Torch which I think is considered reliable for professional wrestling related news. 108.60.192.150 (talk) 22:13, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I support this being in the article. --LukeBK (talk) 02:41, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

G4 is going to be taken off the AT&T U-verse channel line-up on February 18, 2014.

I just got a message saying that G4 was going to be taken off the AT&T U-verse channel line-up on February 18, 2014. Do you believe that? AdamDeanHall (talk) 16:51, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it currently no programing is listed past Feb 19th 2014 on their website. We will have to check back to see if the station is finally dead on the 18th. Also g4.tv now directs over to http://tv.esquire.com/. I don't think it will be long before G4 is gone. --LukeBK (talk) 17:07, 13 February 2014 (UTC) t[reply]

www.g4tv.com is still active. They are showing robo schedules out to the 21st consistant with their usual practice of showing them 7 days out. The Uverse TV listings site is showing scheduled programming out to the end of the month (http://uverseonline.att.net/guide). But as far as I've been able to figure out, its not showing anywhere else but uverse now. The removal noices are usually far more authoritative than the programming schedules. If they do end on the 18th at midnight, their last program may ironically be the Lost episode "Dead is dead".

On another note, Esquire TV is supposedly drawing average prime time viewership in the 50k range. I think its drawing worse ratings than G4 was before it started its final downward spiral. 75.20.228.222 (talk) 02:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They use to show listings 30 days out now its down to 7 days and that is what surprised me. We should keep a close eye on it as I expect to see it go off the air soon. It has to be costing more to run this for just Uvers than they are getting from them. --LukeBK (talk) 01:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Back in 2009, they were charging $.08 per month per subscriber (8 cents). Using the carriage numbers in the article, that means they were bringing in a gross of maybe 58 million dollars in cable fees a year ago back in August. If everyone on Uverse was getting the channel (they are not but lets assume it), they would bring in about 3.8 million per year. These days, their costs are mostly syndication fees on the programs they dont own or co-own (I think that is Heroes, Marvel Anime and Lost). They probably only still have that syndicated programming because of signing long-term deals they can't get out of. The costs of actually running the station aside from programming costs are very, very low. But ignoring my long aside into the business costs, your right. It has to go off the air soon. 108.60.192.150 (talk) 22:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I bet it still costs more then 3.8 million. There are still a few people on staff to run the equipment and create the programing. Add in the cost of the syndication I bet it costs over 4 million every year. Any day now G4 will be dead.

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	:Back in 2009, they were charging $.08 per month per subscriber (8 cents). Using the carriage numbers in the article, that means they were bringing in a gross of maybe 58 million dollars in cable fees a year ago back in August. If everyone on Uverse was getting the channel (they are not but lets assume it), they would bring in about 3.8 million per year. These days, their costs are mostly syndication fees on the programs they dont own or co-own (I think that is Heroes, Marvel Anime and Lost). They probably only still have that syndicated programming because of signing long-term deals they can't get out of. The costs of actually running the station aside from programming costs are very, very low. But ignoring my long aside into the business costs, your right. It has to go off the air soon. [[Special:Contributions/108.60.192.150\|108.60.192.150]] ([[User talk:108.60.192.150\|talk]]) 22:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)		:Back in 2009, they were charging $.08 per month per subscriber (8 cents). Using the carriage numbers in the article, that means they were bringing in a gross of maybe 58 million dollars in cable fees a year ago back in August. If everyone on Uverse was getting the channel (they are not but lets assume it), they would bring in about 3.8 million per year. These days, their costs are mostly syndication fees on the programs they dont own or co-own (I think that is Heroes, Marvel Anime and Lost). They probably only still have that syndicated programming because of signing long-term deals they can't get out of. The costs of actually running the station aside from programming costs are very, very low. But ignoring my long aside into the business costs, your right. It has to go off the air soon. [[Special:Contributions/108.60.192.150\|108.60.192.150]] ([[User talk:108.60.192.150\|talk]]) 22:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

			I bet it still costs more then 3.8 million. There are still a few people on staff to run the equipment and create the programing. Add in the cost of the syndication I bet it costs over 4 million every year. Any day now G4 will be dead.