Tv is becoming as bad as radio.
There was a time, before mass mergers and Clear Channel made it into a commercial wasteland, when terrestrial radio had people called "disk jockeys", who found, picked, and introduced you to music THEY liked or found worthy, and if you liked it TOO, well, then great. And if you didn't, another DJ might appeal to your tastes better, and then you'd stick with that guy and station.
Then it was decided that the business was too important to risk on the personal tastes of any one man, so picking the music became the program director's job, using statistical analysis and trends and marketing jibber-jabber. Maybe it was safer, but it sure became blander. Can you imagine a contemporary Alan Freed breaking Beatles records in today's climate? No, he'd be fired because like the marketing and A&R folks with their research and stats said to Brian Epstein back then; "we're going to pass on your four lads, groups with guitars are on the way out".
The networks are doomed by their lack of long term vision, excess of short-term greed, and overall fear of innovation and risk, as they keep racing each other towards mediocrity in pursuit of market share, each aiming to be bigger by being blander and grayer.
