Genre's on T.V.

The amounts of genre on public television are limitless and limitless because of our vast amount of consumption. We the people, or rather viewers are what make these genres possible. Genres are created for and in many different ways but I really think that the way we conceived genres as a class in our class discussion were as the way we view them or as almost particular groups and specific channels. I noticed how many of the genres listed by the groups on the board ran very similar and parallel yet each group had a couple of outlying genres that the other groups did not. I find that very interesting because although the genres exist it seems they only exist to those people who are interested in them. We are what make production possible and I think that is so cool. Without us the industry doesn't exist, it has no purpose whatsoever. This then also more deeply thought of means that within our groups in class on Wednesday we also each brought our own semiotic domains and we saw where each member of each group connected and while each group had a lot of the same genres there were some different genres in different groups meaning that each person has something to bring to the table of genres. Have you ever wondered why we have 3billion channels and sometimes we still are unsatisfied and can't find anything to watch? It is because there are so many genres and so many different targeted audiences that it is very easy to channel surf. What is neat that I took from class on Wednesday was the idea that when we turn on the T.V. it is like saying,"Okay, I'm ready to be bought.". But that is exactly what t.v. is, We are consumers and so it exists. Wow, interesting stuff.