I do here at Comcast Analog at Cherry Hill. Since I'm also a TechTV fanatic in the their bulletin boards, let me briefly describe the network.
When the network started back in 97 or 98, it orginally was ZDTV. The programming content was all news based on solely computers, techbusinesses, products and Internet, and live interactive "how-to" shows that teach a viewer how to fix a computer or work some gizmo.
After Paul Allen bought the company in 2000, couple of months later in November or December, beyond the name changing to TechTV, they dumped all news programming, kept the live "how-to" shows since they were popular, and started expanding their coverage of technology to other interests, not just computers and internet. In addition, they started showing entertainment shows to fill the gap, like Max Headroom, Japanese anime, and Thunderbirds. (Which in my opinion, I'm not a big fan of.)
Recently as you know, the network hasn't been profitable in making money and demo ratings. (Yes, I read in their company profile at the site that they're hungry for a male 18-36 demo.) And so, here we are.
I was a huge fan of the ZDTV in it's early days. Tasteful information about computers and the Internet. That's very similar to the programming we enjoyed with Game Show Network in it's early days, before president David Fleming and programmer Jake Tauber took away the Goodson-Todman product (except TPIR and FF'94) and began that "Dark Period".
I don't know what the future holds for TechTV as they're in their quasi-"Dark Period" with the recent programming moves, but I hope the merger, if it is official, will satisfy both the ZDTV hardcorers (if that's a word) and today's TechTV audience.
~sanford