What? No Skipper?

When I was a kid, I grew up watching regularly shown re-runs of shows like Gilligan's Island, Looney Tunes and the Brady Bunch. And so did all my friends. Watching a show or two was what you did after school or on a Saturday morning. And, since we only had a couple of channels, we all watched pretty much the same thing. Even when HBO and a few other cable channels popped up, you still watched the standards.

Someone made the comment that today's generation of kids have virtually no unifying media experience. Many of them may watch television, but with the myriad of channels available, they are watching a variety of different programs.

However, one common media experience they do share is the watching of certain videos on Youtube. For instance, while they may not have all seen whatever the kids programming is on Saturday on ABC or CBS or Disney or Nickelodeon or Discovery or whatever, they probably all have seen an episode or all eighteen of FRED on Youtube.

And, like me, he is from Nebraska.