Local Channels

[BeyondTheGrave]

I was wondering does anyone have any good local channels? I have two really good ones. Ones a spanish channel 68 and it plays cheese action flims and horror flims. I was watching Nightmare on Elm Street 4 the other day and I have seen Thing,  Robocop, Termnator and a bunch of Chuck Norris flims. One drawback I don't understand spanish but I have seen most of theses flims number of times so I don't really care. Also their uncut. they don't edit out violent scenes. I remember I was watching Terminator on it and a week later I saw it on Fox. The police station was edited like crazy on Fox, spainsh channel had it in all its glory. What got me this channels not a cable channel, its regluar tv.

Other channel is more local its 25 and it has a special couple of hours deciated to New York, Like places to go for cheap, history of New York City etc. Their a show that stands out for me and its called New York Noise. It plays videos of New Yorks underground music. It kicks MTV ass severely. It has mostly rock/punk/alternative.

So back ot my question anyone have any good local channels?

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Post Edited (05-21-05 21:14)

[ToyMan]

in chicagoland, we have MeTV, which plays a lot of old sitcoms. especially great is that they show "svengoolie", which for those who don't know, is our regional horror host.

[Archivist]

In Australia we have SBS or 'Special Broadcasting Services'.  It's a multicultural channel that often has many foreign cult movies, including Guitar Wolf and Wild Zero, spaghetti westerns, Bruce Lee movies, lots of HK action movies, the occasional Bollywood drama/thriller/romance/musical, Japanese horror movies like Ringu and Dark Water... Lots of good stuff.  They also broadcast a lot of 'controversial' documentaries that the commercial stations tend not to touch.

www.sbs.com.au

We also have the government-run ABC which broadcasts a fair amount of British content, and they had Dr Who and The Goodies.  They are currently broadcasting the first season of Dr Who.

www.abc.net.au

The other free-to-air channels are pretty bad in terms of 'our' kind of movies, but occasionally there is a horror movie on after 10.30 that would be pretty B-grade.  Sometimes they have a run of B-grade action movies, one each week for a month.  One time they had King of the Kickboxers with Billy Blanks and Loren Avedon.  Way cool.

~Archivist~

[Susan]

Rich - that must be the same station i pick up. We have a few spanish statiosn here in dallas, but one of them always plays really GOOD movies that i end up watching just because there's never anything else on. I can't figure out why english speaking stations pick crap movies to air. I once tried the subtitles option on my tv but it didn't work, sometimes i mute it because i can read their lips but if it's a movie i know well i just watch it all out in spanish,  u can make out alot of what they're saying and you're familiar with the dialogue anyways.

[odinn7]

I have Directv and my local channels are pretty weak. I don't blame Directv as they were just as bad when I had cable. It's our location I suspect. It always seemed to me like there was more on tv when I was younger and all we had was an antenna and the more channels you get, the less the programming seems to be worth watching.

[Yaddo 42]

The local channels where I live just get worse and worse. The UPN affiliate somethimes has some decent flicks on weekend afternoons, but it's often stuff I've seen before (like "Semi-Tough") and/or they cut them to pieces to fit a two hour block (like "A Fistful of Dynamite"). Lately they seem stuck on playing "A Few Good Men" and some of the "Roger Corman Presents" remakes from the 90s (the remake of "Humanoids from the Deep" and the second remake of "Not of this Earth" especially). Infomercials and half-hour ads for local car dealerships have taken over the other channels mostly. A channel that had been 23 hours of infomercials a day finally added real programs again. But it's mostly the religious/politically conservative channel Family Net, so other than a few public doamin sitcoms and movies in the wee hours there's nothing there I want to see.

When I lived in Arlington, VA I used to love to stay up and watch one of the Spanish stations (Univision I think) since they had old Spanish dubbed versions of stuff like "The Sons of Katie Elder" and funny infomercials for Walter Mercado, a crummy TV psychic who looked like a dumpy middle aged woman and dressed like he stole Elton John's old stage outfits. They also used to air a show selling one of those "learn English by video and audio tape" sets, but the kicker was that if you ordered NOW (the usual pitch) they would throw in a ten movie set of tapes of Cantaflas the legendary Mexican comedian. I had no use for the learn English tapes, and didn't think I could relearn Spanish in reverse with them, but I had to fight the urge to order the set for those movies.