Real Reason Bridges Tv & Funimation Are Being Dropped

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Channel 278 bridges tv is being dropped because it is perceived as an anti-american channel by a lot of people and since verizon was a company that collaborated with the united states government where verizon allowed the bush administration access to all of verizon's customer's records where the government was allowed to spy on all of the phone calls of all verizon customers in hopes of trying to stop a potential attack on united states soil. Bridges tv is the last of those who are doing what they can to try to alter the negative stereotypes that people have about muslims. That all changed when the founders of bridges tv a married couple of middle eastern descent got into a domestic altercation amongst themselves where the husband who is a muslim beheaded his wife as a result of the altercation. The husband who committed that act of murder is muzzammil hassan who is now in prison for having beheaded his wife aasiya. The couple's two young children along with the husband's two older children will now receive millions of shares in stock as bridges tv has now been sold to another company but the perception based on the incident between the two former owners of that company is that bridges tv is a pro muslim anti-american channel which is not really the case but perception becomes reality especially when a domestic incident between the two former owners of that channel who were trying to fight the negative stereotypes of what some people have of muslims end up in a situation that happens a lot in the middle east where the act itself is called an honor killing where husband beheads his wife if he feels that she has disrespected him in amyway. Funimation is being dropped because verizon is going to be adding more content from disney which is a more popular channel that has a lot more viewers where funimation will still exist with other providers like comcast and at&t still carrying the channel. No one actually believes that these channels are being dropped for low viewership because you have a bunch of 24/7 infomercial channels like wow tv channel 158 and a bunch of religious channels that people are not watching. There are no actual nielsen ratings to determine how many people are watching bridges tv and funimation but how verizon monitors who is watching what channel is that they anonymously collect viewing data from set top boxes without customers really knowing this as they determine what channels are the most popular and this is how they are also able to determine what to have on their what's hot list that is available to all customers based on what region they live in.

[Moon65]

Thanks for a realistic reason for the funimation drop, but now I’m concerned that like everything else, even if the new channel starts out having Funimation and Disney on the same channel, eventually it will become all Disney. Besides aren’t there enough totally Disney channels already. It’s like removing the last refuge from Disney.

[ElizabethS · Accepted solution]

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