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* Viewership of a show lived and died on the TV ratings. If, say, the network scheduled your favorite show out of order or preempted it with sports, the best you could hope for was to write a letter and hope they read it. There were no DVDs for repeated watching of a show so [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]] applied to absolutely ''everything''. Online communities (to get the word out about the mistreatment of a show) were still embryonic—it was only late in the decade that networks began caring (slightly) about a show's online "buzz," as this meant that the show was reaching a wealthy and educated audience.
* Reality TV was getting its start with MTV's ''[[The Real World]]'', but the genre didn't seriously pick up until the 2000s.
* [[Professional Wrestling]] entered a boom period in the mid-'90s when the [[
* Pogs! [[Anyone Remember Pogs?]]? Originally the bottle caps from bottles of pineapple-orange-guava juice, they quickly became little decorated cardboard disks that were used to play some kind of game. For about six months in 1993, they were bloody ''ubiquitous''.
* The ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise was at its zenith with ''three'' almost concurrent series in that decade, not to mention the feature films. However, viable TV competitors to Trek's [[Space Opera]] monopoly finally arose with the ambitious ''[[Babylon 5]]'' and the amazingly enduring ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.
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