Hey Norm,
On Ridgeline TV I air a mixture of local programming and classic movies, TV
shows & westerns. Given my older audience in Southern Appalachia, I also air a
number of gospel music programs from independent producers. Additionally, the
station airs a couple of hours of country music videos provided by AristoMedia
in Nashville (in addition to half-hour shows, these videos work out well to
fill in odd time slots.)
Local programs include high school and college sporting events, which are
really popular. Also air a local concert series, a locally-produced children's
show, a local hunting show and several area churches / religious programs. In
addition, I cover other community happenings like seasonal parades and big
events, some of which I cover live.
Most of the public domain movies / TV shows were acquired from www.archive.org
<http://www.archive.org/>, purchased from PD libraries or from trades with
other station owners. Quality really varies from acceptable to barely usable
Good news is that the older viewers really like the classic westerns. You
might talk with Rick Goetz, I believe he has a deal where if you buy a video
server from him then he will fill it with classic movies / TV shows.
I don't have a problem sharing some of the classic programming I have (though
it's all SD).
Jon C. Moon
Ridgeline TV Channel 99
706-897-0872
www.ridgelinetv.net <http://www.ridgelinetv.net/>
On Dec 29, 2020, at 11:01 PM, Daniel Brown
<daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Norm: When I had my LDTV station we ran the Classic TV shows and, yes, I
think the ratings were good. By that I mean many viewers were calling or
sending emails telling me how much they enjoyed the programming. Obviously,
they were older viewers since many had seen these shows when they were 1st
run. The problem is that after you repeat this programming a few of times,
you have to think about acquiring new classic shows and films or changing
formats.
At the time, I was planning on switching my main channel to BizTV and running
classic shows and films on a second channel with a 50’s-60’s rock n’ roll
radio channel as a third sub-channel. A guy who was planning to start a
religious lifestyle channel wanted to buy my station, so I ended up selling
it.
While it is true that Classic TV programming can be gotten through the
internet by way of Roku or Apple TV, you need a good internet connection to
have a smooth viewing experience. Many areas don’t have reliable internet
service, so watching TV over-the-air is the only stress-free way to enjoy
this entertainment. Where I live, on the rural California coast, the
internet is not very good so broadcast TV is actually popular here.
Sorry for the long-winded response.
dB
On Dec 29, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Norm Kaiser (Redacted sender "falkyr11" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Dan, do you sense you get good ratings for the classic TV stuff?
On Tuesday, December 29, 2020, 05:35:33 PM CST, Daniel Brown
<daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I notice that there is a lot of Public Domain content on Tubi and similar
streaming apps. Most of this is in either HD or very high quality SD. I’ve
started to replace some of my Classic TV mpeg2 content with these higher
resolution versions in Mpeg4. I use the stand alone Cloner-Alliance box to
capture it from Roku.
dB
On Dec 29, 2020, at 1:52 PM, Norm Kaiser (Redacted sender "falkyr11" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Is anyone still programming their own channel? If yes, where do you get
your content from?
