Obscurity, much?/Television

Animation has its own page, as do many, *many* specific examples of animation.

* History rarely shows Mankind: The Story of All of Us. In fact, they don't air it at all, instead focusing on Pawn Stars and American Pickers.
* Turner South, unfortunately. Once it was shut down, the name faded into obscurity. Though part of the reason for the shutdown/conversion into *Sport*South was thanks to Warner Bros. selling it to Fox, further being sold to Sinclair in 2019 due to Disney's acquisition of Fox. For more on said Disney-Fox deal, see here.
* Considering TruTV being about, well, *reality* (well, it used to be CourtTV, a channel which was *supposed* to air only courtroom hearings, but that's another story entirely) its lowest-rated shows tend to be this. The most prominent example is The Principal's Office (yes, there was a show literally called that). The show only has some clips on YouTube which neither Turner Broadcasting nor Leftfield Pictures seem to be taking down.
* The former VOD network Studio 4 Learning. Ironically, it ran a well-known PBS acquisition (The Zula Patrol).
	+ It didn't help that its successor "Studybeat" failed to catch on and was shut down after a little while. Any gap left by Studio 4 Networks was filled in by Mag Rack (see the Mag Rack example for more).
* Scripps-owned networks have had their fair share of obscure shows (for example, the majority of Food Network's programming outside of prime-time), given that anything educational or instructional that airs on one of these networks tend to be this. However, the Food Network has sent a couple of prime-time shows into obscurity.
	+ "Health Inspectors", which lasted only one season and isn't even mentioned beyond the Food Network site anymore.
	+ Kitchen Casino is an obscure clone of Chopped. It only ran 8 episodes and (partially) adopted the Money or Nothing tactic of Cutthroat Kitchen.
	+ Food Network shows aside, there once was a network called "Fine Living Network"- which got introduced a little too late, given that the economy was in a recession during 2008 (said recession also made Lehman Brothers, mentioned in the subpage for examples from US history, bankrupt). In 2010, Scripps finally threw their hands up in the air and retooled the network into the "Cooking Channel"... but not without the last "program" shown by the network. Granted, though, the recession made some people lose their mansions due to foreclosure.
		- Speaking of the Cooking Channel, it airs old Food Network shows, with the exclusion of the really obscure prime-time shows, no matter how obscure the shows are.
		- Discovery now bought Scripps' networks (or at least several shares in them) and now (like they did on several other channels they owned in the past) are rerunning Scripps' stuff to death on Discovery's other channels. So it's technically now averted for the luckier shows.
* Mag Rack has been around for quite a while, even managing to take over what was left by Studio 4 Learning/Studybeat after that company left VOD, but its (failed) rename *Lifeskool* was so obscure the VOD service was re-renamed to Mag Rack after 8 months being called "Lifeskool".
	+ Not that its more-known name fared any better. *Eebee's Adventures* is among its most-obscure programming, and if a show is popular on Mag Rack, chances are it stars a celebrity (like John Lithgow starring in "Paloozaville").
* Pay TV outside of cable/satellite has fallen victim to this. In fact, outside of Chicago or Los Angeles, practically everyone who hears the term "subscription TV" will *automatically* assume subscription TV has always been exclusive to cable/satellite, with *maybe* the exception of HBO. In several states, they're right, but as for markets where they're wrong...
	+ ON TV was the most successful, amassing 700,000 subscribers over its eight years in operations. Its death knell came when cable was finally allowed into its markets. Now tapes of it are becoming collector's items among videophiles and television historians.
	+ Spectrum was a sports network- combine that with subscription TV on broadcast TV, and it's a recipe for becoming obscure. However, this combination didn't kill them outright- it was the failure to have deals with several sports teams renewed- specifically, Minnesota's baseball and hockey teams. Both teams have gone on to become famous among sports fans, while Spectrum broadcasts became collector's items among television historians.
	+ PRISM (yes, they chose to capitalize it) lasted the longest out of all of these before they shut down. However, that only applies for cable systems; in Philadelphia, it's even *more* obscure because it was carried on *broadcast TV* for *just two years*.
	+ Tele1st is documented on the page usually documenting home media due to the fact that the service required the use of blank videotapes to record your shows.
	+ There are countless others we can't mention without this section taking up the bulk of this subpage.
* QUBE (not related to Qubo) was an interactive cable TV service. A small and obscure one, too, considering it's on this list. In fact, the *only* reasons people remember QUBE anymore are because of an interactive parody of soap operas, and because of the fact it helped Nickelodeon (yes, *that* Nickelodeon) get off the ground.
* The reaction to people finding out about *Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills*: "Let's see what it's about... OK, so it's a joke on *Dragon Ball Z Abridged*. It's probably something Abridged!Vegeta made up on the spot... wait, you're saying he didn't? It actually *existed*?" Completely obscure doesn't even *begin* to describe how obscure *Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters* is...
* The ABC show *Turn On*. In regards to this show, "completely obscure" and "short-lived" are both big understatements. Despite being one of the first TV series with computer animation (if not *the* first), it was also one of the last series to utilize the technology used to create said animation. If that isn't enough, making a show with the concept *Turn On* has in the 1960s was... not a good idea, to say the least: people were *angry* about the show's concept and some ABC affiliates even *threw it off the air* just halfway through, with some other affiliates not even bothering to air it at all. The result was a one-episode mess that we can't give its own page to due to its content. (If you're wondering why *Turn On* is mentioned here instead of on Disney's own page, the show happened decades before Disney's buyout of ABC, and probably isn't even *owned* by ABC anymore.)