What would you program?

[redwill]

If you had your own cable channel?

I was flipping through DirecTV's guide and was astonished at the carp there.


So you have your own cable channel to program. Forget the copyright lawyers. Forget the ad people.


It's a work in progress, but here are some things on redwillTV:

Mystery Science Theater 3000
QI (UK)
Northern Exposure
Hogan's Heroes
M*A*S*H
Match Game
Top Gear (UK)
WKRP in Cincinnati
News Radio
St. Elsewhere
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Frances and Friends
Pens Hockey (duh)
Movie of the Day: John Wayne ...


Always something to watch while wasting away the days until I die!

[viva la ben]

24/7 webcam of Kate Upton.

[MelicharSux]

Teen Mom 2 Marathon.

[PghSkins]

MST3K
Most Extreme Elimination Challenge
Twin Peaks
The X-Files
Millennium
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Homicide: Life on the Street
Moonlighting
Alfred Hitchcock Movie Night
James Bond Movie Night
Edward G Robinson Movie Night
Dirty Harry marathon
Penguins hockey, Redskins football, and Providence Friars basketball games
No news, just hours of weather with the fabulous Christina Loren of NBC Bay Area.

[KennyTheKangaroo]

American Gladiators.

[Froggy]

12am-6am law and order svu, since I'll probably be asleep, but if I was up, I'd probably leave it on.
6am-9am a block of 80s cartoons (gi Joe, transformers, etc.)
9am-11am Saved By the Bell
11am-12am The Price is Right
12pm-4pm cheesy movie double feature, focusing on 90'a direct to video stuff
Then, the rest of the day, I'd probably go with that Kate Upton webcam that vlb was talking about.

[mac5155]

Duck Dynasty 12 hours a day and man vs food the other 12

[canaan]

A Typical day on CTV:

8:00-9:00 - Quantum Leap
9:00-10:00 - MacGyver
10:00-11:00 - SeaQuest DSV
11:00-12:00 - Twin Peaks
12:00-2:00 - Saved by the Bell
2:00-4:00 - Me staring into the camera
4:00-4:30 - Archer
4:30-5:00 - Between Two Ferns -- the tv series
5:00-7:00 - Kevin Smith Movie Night
7:00-9:30 - Penguins Hockey
9:30-10:30 - Dead Like Me
10:30-11:30 - Game of Thrones
11:30-1:30 - USA Network reprisal: Up All Night Movies
1:30-8:00 - Random, but decent movies.

[redwill]

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

Ooh! Forgot about that! Definitely should be added. As well as the original Iron Chef.

[pittsoccer33]

sad to say but if i wanted to make $$ id have the celebrity idiotfest programs on all day. Kardashians, Snookie, and everything else that appeals to low information idiots.

i was talking to some friends about when Jerry Garcia died. I was in jr high on summer vacation - my world revolved around MTV. They quit playing videos for days to run tributes to him and the Dead - concerts, videos, interviews, etc etc. That would only happen now if Snooki or Bieber died. VH1 is the same.

History, Discovery, TLC, A&E. These are supposed to be educational programs - they were the best. Now they're just full of famewhores. Unfortunately, they are that way because thats what makes money.

[pittsoccer33]

There used to be a channel called Sleuth, but Comcast didnt get it. All police procedurals. I wish Homicide was on somewhere now.

[tifosi77]

Top Gear (UK), Mythbusters, Top Chef, whatever Anthony Bourdain is working on at the time, any programming involving my favorite chefs.

Hockey, NFL football, Formula 1 when they're on.

[Troy Loney]

A Typical day on CTV:

8:00-9:00 - Quantum Leap
9:00-10:00 - MacGyver
10:00-11:00 - SeaQuest DSV
11:00-12:00 - Twin Peaks
12:00-2:00 - Saved by the Bell
2:00-4:00 - Me staring into the camera
4:00-4:30 - Archer
4:30-5:00 - Between Two Ferns -- the tv series
5:00-7:00 - Kevin Smith Movie Night
7:00-9:30 - Penguins Hockey
9:30-10:30 - Dead Like Me
10:30-11:30 - Game of Thrones
11:30-1:30 - USA Network reprisal: Up All Night Movies
1:30-8:00 - Random, but decent movies.

Kevin Smith every night?

[redwill]

Unfortunately, they are that way because thats what makes money.

Right. Now forget about that and proceed.

[canaan]

Kevin Smith every night?

that was a typical day...not necessarily an ongoing thing...i would switch after a bit, obvs.

[eddysnake]

chop show

[columbia]

I thought this was going to be a debate over assembly vs. COBOL.

[Pavel Bure]

Policies of my network

1. Everything is shown uncensored. It's on cable, the FCC can't regulate it, so I won't either
2. Every show/Movie will be played without commercials.
3. After every show/movie the equivalent of 10 mins of commercials per every normal half hour of show will be played. A countdown clock will be shown in the bottom right of the screen letting people know how much more time of commercials there are and what is coming next.
This means a show that is ~22 mins will be followed by 10 mins of commercials. A movie that is 2 hours long will be followed by 40 mins of commercials.

Other than that I don't know exactly what my programming would be.

[The Snapshot]

Carp - at the spillway, and horsehead masks....

[DelPen]

In Search Of all day every day.

[mac5155]

chop show

Lizard Lick Towing

[mac5155]

Policies of my network

1. Everything is shown uncensored. It's on cable, the FCC can't regulate it, so I won't either
2. Every show/Movie will be played without commercials.
3. After every show/movie the equivalent of 10 mins of commercials per every normal half hour of show will be played. A countdown clock will be shown in the bottom right of the screen letting people know how much more time of commercials there are and what is coming next.
This means a show that is ~22 mins will be followed by 10 mins of commercials. A movie that is 2 hours long will be followed by 40 mins of commercials.

Other than that I don't know exactly what my programming would be.

Good luck getting advertisers to buy into that.

[Pavel Bure]

Policies of my network

1. Everything is shown uncensored. It's on cable, the FCC can't regulate it, so I won't either
2. Every show/Movie will be played without commercials.
3. After every show/movie the equivalent of 10 mins of commercials per every normal half hour of show will be played. A countdown clock will be shown in the bottom right of the screen letting people know how much more time of commercials there are and what is coming next.
This means a show that is ~22 mins will be followed by 10 mins of commercials. A movie that is 2 hours long will be followed by 40 mins of commercials.

Other than that I don't know exactly what my programming would be.

Good luck getting advertisers to buy into that.

I would be willing to bet that if/when the network received viewership the advertisers would come. Not to mention I'm sure there are advertisers other networks turn away. For example I saw an advertisement for Brazzers TV when the bar was closing down the other night. Advertising revenue wouldn't be a problem as long as people watched.

[Rylan]

Policies of my network

1. Everything is shown uncensored. It's on cable, the FCC can't regulate it, so I won't either
2. Every show/Movie will be played without commercials.
3. After every show/movie the equivalent of 10 mins of commercials per every normal half hour of show will be played. A countdown clock will be shown in the bottom right of the screen letting people know how much more time of commercials there are and what is coming next.
This means a show that is ~22 mins will be followed by 10 mins of commercials. A movie that is 2 hours long will be followed by 40 mins of commercials.

Other than that I don't know exactly what my programming would be.

Good luck getting advertisers to buy into that.

I would be willing to bet that if/when the network received viewership the advertisers would come. Not to mention I'm sure there are advertisers other networks turn away. For example I saw an advertisement for Brazzers TV when the bar was closing down the other night. Advertising revenue wouldn't be a problem as long as people watched.

People won't watch 10 minutes of ads. The first and last ad would be quite important and expensive but after that the avg viewers per ad would drop exponentionally until probably the 8 minute mark or so where viewers would begin tuning in. Unless advertising changed into more infomercial like the advertisers would stay away...your high viewer ship would not be helpful to advertisers in the slightest

[columbia]

Hmmm....I wonder what explains all of those infomercials and shopping channels?