The Learning Channel, a Discovery channel fondly dubbed the acronym
shared by tender loving care—TLC—is a network station airing in
93 million homes in the United States and Canada. The Learning Channel,
however, is more than a popular culture network striving for high viewer numbers.
It is an intentionally high-quality entertainment and information channel that
appeals to viewers of all ages and diversities by way of inspirational and useful
programming.
The infamous reality TV programming is part of The Learning Channel line-up,
though used in a more subtle and practical approach and manner: such shows as
“Amazing Medical Stories,” “Plastic Surgery, Beverly Hills,”
and “Diets from Hell,” for example, expose the researched and documented
stories of what happens to real people behind the scenes—and what choices
they have made, how those choices have impacted their health and well-being,
and what results they witnessed and/or experienced.
Twenty years in the television programming arena, The Learning Channel features
a range of shows that reveal what many of its 93 million viewing households
experience daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly themselves, though with a different
angle, motivation, or reward system for the show participants than those the
audience members might have access to (though they might wish for the outcomes
shown): In “Trading Spaces,” for example, neighbors are granted
a limited amount of money, time, and access to their next-door neighbors’
home—to one room, specifically—and are encouraged to design, decorate,
and display a “winning” makeover of that room. Viewers get a look
at how common laymen and laywomen think, calculate, budget, create, and appreciate
a room’s design, spatial properties, and living functionalities and options.
Viewers get a vicarious experience, then, as well as exposure to unique and
thoughtful ideas for decorating on a limited budget.
As the directors and drivers of The Learning Channel, an award-winning network
affiliated with Discovery, will tell you, TLC is not just mind-numbing massage
for common folk. TLC is, they report, “high-quality, intelligent
real-world entertainment...that captures life unscripted…[and that] relays
personal stories that inspire, engage, inform and unite our audience in the
spirit of life's possibilities.”
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