Welcome to the 500-channel universe, where there's too many channels on the dial and nothing on to watch.
If there's a statement to be made with this work, it's that I prefer the days back when the TV-verse was smaller and simpler, when there were just a few channels on the dial (i.e. the local ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS affiliates, one or two independent stations and a handful of cable channels, or, in my case, the local CBC and CTV stations, an independent and the nearest American stations on cable) and when the shows that aired on our screens were not only of better quality (think dramas, Westerns, game shows, sitcoms and anything with Lucille Ball in it), there was also more air time devoted to them.
Now in this day and age, we have tons more channels (with many of them in HD) devoted to both general entertainment and to niche programming (sports, news, movies, music, the arts, classic TV, kids' shows, DIY, etc.), but too few quality shows spread out among them, so the air time of many of them get filled with junk (i.e. infomercials and "reality" TV).
TV from 30 or 40 years ago vs. TV today - which would you take?