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  1. Hensonverse Speculation and Commentary

    Here's a idea that just popped into my head: By the late 1990s ITTL, Disney owns not just Disneyland and Disney World, but a chain of Disneytowns across North America. It's mentioned that all of Disney's parks often feature live music; IIRC the Disneytowns in particular have a focus on (often)...

  2. Hensonverse Speculation and Commentary

    RIP to infamous Wall Street financier Ivan Boesky, the man who ITTL helped sink Robert Holmes-a-Court's attempted hostile takeover of Disney in 1984 (and provided some hilarious interactions with Miss Piggy in the process)

  3. Hensonverse Speculation and Commentary

    So ITTL, Ted Turner, who of course owns CNN, also owns CBS, so I'm thinking about what a joint CBS-CNN news operation - which I'm nicknaming "Columbia News" after the (eventual) name of the parent company for Turner's media holdings - might look like by the 1990s: The two "Columbia News" brands...

  4. Hensonverse Speculation and Commentary

    possible excerpt from a netlog (OTL blog) post about daytime network television ITTL: In the Spring of 1986, Ted Turner's CBS bought Merv Griffith Enterprises, and with it two of America's most popular game shows in Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. At the time, Wheel of Fortune had two versions...

  5. Wank a Company, or Industry

    Sears becomes the first major retailer to offer online shopping starting in the mid-1990s, basically bringing their long-standing mail order catalog to the Internet. With their prestige in retail, a wide variety of products available, plus their large chain of nationwide stores doubling as...

  6. Your Personal Pop Culture Utopia timeline

    I’m not even an anime fan and I’m furious at this stupid and arbitrary rule for their exports They really believed that “We’re too good to be confined to home video/DVD” despite knowing anime was (and, outside of a select few shows/franchises, still is to an extent) a niche product in the West...

  7. Your Personal Pop Culture Utopia timeline

    About 5 years ago a anonymous, disgruntled ex-Channel Awesome employee compiled and released a massive Google Doc describing in detail multiple serious allegations of employee mistreatment and sexual misconduct by both management and content creators at the platform. After the bombshell expose...

  8. Terror in Littleton: How a tragedy shaped a nation

    Alternately once web browsing cookies become a thing, a cookie tracks all your activity online and sends it back to some bureaucrat somewhere who reviews everything as mentioned above

  9. Terror in Littleton: How a tragedy shaped a nation

    My theory on why social media doesn’t really take off ITTL is that the U.S. (and possibly other major countries), still fully embracing both their “protect the kids by any means necessary” and War on Terror attitudes, put in place a bunch of checks on the then-upstart social media industry...

  10. Terror in Littleton: How a tragedy shaped a nation

    Not to mention I can easily see all the restrictive laws currently being proposed and passed IOTL as part of the conservative backlash to LGBTQ rights (“bathroom bills”, gender-affirming care bans, “Don’t Say Gay” in schools, schools forced to out suspected queer students to their parents, etc.)...

  11. Terror in Littleton: How a tragedy shaped a nation

    And assuming technology advances at the same rate it did IOTL, such efforts are likely to coincide with the rise of major social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the late 2000s and early 2010s, likely amplifying many of the problems with political/social radicalization...

  12. Terror in Littleton: How a tragedy shaped a nation

    What about the potential fallout on society of having a bunch of young adults who already have serious criminal records thanks to all the overzealous enforcement and prosecution of school misbehavior? American society tends to look down very heavily on those with (felony) criminal records, so...

  13. When you Wish Upon a Frog (Book II of the Jim Henson at Disney saga)

    Thank you @Geekhis Khan for this incredible work. This is truly one of this site's Gold Standards of pop culture TLs. I wish you all the best in whatever you do next.

  14. When you Wish Upon a Frog (Book II of the Jim Henson at Disney saga)

    Having beloved actor Tom Hanks play beloved entertainer Walt Disney in the biopic makes too much sense

  15. Your Personal Pop Culture DYSTOPIA Timeline

    Given the current writers' strike in Hollywood, I thought about what could happen if the 2007-2008 writers' strike lasted significantly longer ITTL (let's say 6 months instead of OTL's 3 months), For starters, the major broadcast and cable networks would likely consider the 2007-2008 TV season...

  16. Battle Royale: The Last Generation Of An SNES-CD Saga

    Also Dan Schneider got outed as a general creep and fired over a decade earlier than OTL IIRC

  17. AHC: Have The WB or UPN succeed in their quest to become "The Fifth Network"

    Baseball was in a rough patch with regards to broadcast rights by the mid 1990s due to some bad/poorly executed deals, so if either UPN or the WB were aggressive enough and (importantly, IMO) promised MLB a Primetime Game of the Week (similar to Monday Night Football for the NFL), they could...

  18. Your Personal Pop Culture DYSTOPIA Timeline

    Meanwhile traditional TV has increasingly become a wasteland of mostly-interchangeable crime procedurals, barely-funny sitcoms, and pointless reality shows as all the high-quality programming has moved to streaming services. Those good shows online? They're all spread out across like 8 different...

  19. 2023 Turtledoves - (Closes (26/02/23) - Best Cold War to Contemporary Timeline Nominations and Seconds

    I nominate for Best Cold War to Contemporary Timeline: Exocet - the Effects of a different Falklands by @Nevran

  20. When you Wish Upon a Frog (Book II of the Jim Henson at Disney saga)

    The TL is leaking again! Bob Iger's next big challenge at Disney is activist investor Nelson Peltz
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