From G4 TV to the Esquire Channel: A Missed Opportunity for a Video Game Channel

(Note: This post is one of two posts that were originally posted three days prior on The Voice of Heard. I reposted them here as start-up entries and as an attempt to make them accessible to a wider audience with The Escapist's Realm.)

In recent years, the video game industry and community has experienced both good news and bad news. But no bad news is more significant than the recent announcement that G4 TV, a television channel originally geared towards a young gamer audience, is to become the Esquire Network, which is geared toward a more "sophisticated meterosexual male" audience, by late April this year. (Note: the term 'meterosexual' is used to describe an urban modern-day heterosexual man who is mostly concerned [and perhaps even obsessed] with his personal appearance, which is reflected by the amount of time and money spent on the most fashionable clothes, the best beauty treatments, and the most fastidious grooming his money can buy.) In order to paint a clearer picture as to why this is happening, I will give a brief history of G4.