Channel 21 on my cable system … it’s all services from storefront churches. All filmed on cheap camcorcers, a few with tripods.
Lovely. Farrakhan is on. “If God hates blacks, why did he make so many of us, and so few whites? Why did he piut the whites in the coldest parts of the planet? The white woman became your fashion model!” W. T. F.
Look! Channel 115. A changing graph that reads “Cablevision Cleveland Hts Main H.E. -1.5dbm SPN 4 to 44 MHz” There’s some goooooooood television.
The channel with 24 hour propaganda from the Chinese government I get is better than this. Yes, I get CCTV9.
A few years ago, I used to be able to get something called “Channel America”, but over the air. They would feature such shows as “Eischied” w/Joe Don Baker! They also featured jai alai games your could bet on.
I’d gladly trade TBN, Discovery Health, or the Golf Channel for any of the channels in the OP.
When I lived in Arlington, VA I loved a public access-type channel the cable company had that carried Lyndon LaRouche speeches on Sunday afternoons. The man’s a nut but he would have made a hell of a great bad pulp spy novel writer with his ramblings about conspiracies and the Bush family and the British royal family financing their wealth with their secret control of the cocaine trade.
The weirdest/worst channel we have where I live is a local independent channel that has gone from standard syndicated shows and bad cheap movies, to a WB affiliate, then a UPN affiliate, then bad movies and FamilyNet right wing political talk shows, then religious shows and hunting and shooting programs they got off the satellite (including a firearms review/milita politics show and a gospel music show both with the same host), and other changes. Now a days they are infomercials 22 hours a day, have a Bible reading show in the morning from the satellite and the “pride” of their programming - Les And Bud Unwired. It’s the station owner and his crony sitting in front of a single camera set up rambling about the weather, current affairs local and national (and they always get their facts wrong), cracking corn-pone jokes, talking about great meals they had at restaurants that closed years ago, lame political and religious lectures, bad guitar and singing duets, and finding ways to drop the name of their dwindling number of sponsors into their chats. I guess they do that to make up for the fact that they have been using the same tapes with the same old commercials on them for so long that the tapes are worn out and the images have degraded almost to the point of just being video snow. Occasionally they have to shoo a cat off the table they sit behind or tell someone to answer the phone ringing in the background (the station and studio are located in a tiny converted former Zippy-Mart convenience store) or forget what they are talking about in mid conversation. About every two years they change the name of the show and use new library music and video openings and end credits, but it’s been the same two morons talking for years on end. So bad it’s almost hypnotic. It’s a one station argument against FCC must-carry rules for local stations.
Sometimes, when I flip through Saudi One and Saudi Two, they seem to be showing live feeds from the security cameras at the Grand Mosque in Mecca or Riyadh.
Have you seen the gold panning show, up there on the high channels? (The Outdoors network, perhaps? I’m not sure.) The very best part is the theme music!