Way before I started #NETV, in the very early days of peertube, before COVID, before I was running a coffee shop in the mountains, when I thought I'd be an engineering manager in #BigTech for the rest of my life, I was planning to stream and do videos about computers and video games in the style of Cathode Ray Dude or LGR.

I turned a portion of our living room into a video studio. I bought some vintage computers, and set up an absolutely Bangin' windows 98 box.

I got some video cameras from the 70s and 80s and built a rig so that I could capture and mix footage from my PCs and these 70s and 80s cameras.

I had it all pretty much ready to go just before Christmas 2019, I was just waiting on some parts to arrive from China for a PC build that would serve as my primary streaming rig.

I registered a twitch account, I did a couple of test streams to an audience of one or two to find my feet. I was getting ready to turn making media into my Whole Thing.

And then it was Feb of 2020, and I caught COVID at SFO before anyone even knew it was in the country, and didn't get out of bed for a month.

To that end, I think I'm actually going to try and start the short, infrequent, "I found this cool thing and I want to tell people about it" video series.

It'll probably become a television program for #NETV. every time I've got five or six of them, but mostly it'll be me sharing neat stuff that I found and some info about the folks that made it.

Practically, for #NETV right now, it wouldn't change much.

I don't know of any other community television stations. I know of some public access stations, but that's a different kind of animal in a couple of ways.

But it would give us a second homepage and window into the world that was a little less Ellijay centered and a give us a good reason to spin up a second Roku channel that might improve discoverability.

This week's Open Stage is a day or two late because I've been a bit tied up with getting moved into my new office, I hope you can forgive me.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/jRpaZe3VUy97GBhkS497m3

#NETV #Video #TV

Here we go! What I've been working on this past couple of days! (I'll admit that most of the work was done by my computer)

It's a supercut of every time the word "fuck" was used during the run of Open Stage. The idea came from @RussSharek after I mentioned I had a few pages in my notebook from editing Open Stage for #NETV which were just entire pages of swear words and timestamps from censoring them for airing.

I hope you enjoy it, though I doubt you will find it as satisfying as I do after all of this work!

https://communitymedia.video/w/dTVeCutu4aAPzeGo7BFLoZ

News for #NETV fans!

Captain Isotope will be moving to a Saturday release, Fridays are now the day for another Studio Kaiju production: Mansion of Mystery! This show presents weird and wonderful classic movies, with the first episode titled "There's No Business Like Monkey Business" available today featuring 1952's Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla.

Check it out!

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/e3WzJQieQnC5Kvom2E56Am

And I'll let y'all in on a secret. There's another episode up now for patrons (and it's going up for #NETV sponsors shortly.)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/140279523

https://newellijay.tv/festival

It's time for the annual #NETV FALL FILM FESTIVAL

All participants are welcome, regardless of skill level or location. First time filmmakers strongly encouraged!

$500 grand prize. Films will be judged by an independent panel (Not me!) based on lots of factors, but creativity and intent will top polish.

Equipment and space rentals available for folks in the north Georgia area. I'll be posting some "how to make a bad movie" clips on peertube too.

Submission deadline is Nov 15.

New episode of The Open Stage on #NETV video on demand later today!

I love the toy work I'm doing right now, and it seems pretty likely that it's going to pay my bills (and the bills for several other members of our community) for a while.

People like what we're doing, and we're in demand. We're meeting with clients tonight. We're meeting with clients on Saturday. We're emailing clients every twenty minutes.

It's good! And it is absolutely part of the same #CommunityMedia movement that led me to create #NETV.

But it's only *part* of the #communityMedia thing. We need the media. I need to figure out a way to make the production and distribution of independent media financially viable in small batches.

As I've mentioned previously, we produce all of these shows for #netv / @newellijaytelevision / @video at the Ellijay Makerspace using 10+ year old cameras and open source software.

All our editing happens in @kdenlive Our videos are distributed through @peertube and our cable network is powered by #ffplayout and #ffmpeg.

We're a #floss shop, running a weird little experimental cable network out of the north GA mountains. We release between 1 and 10 new original videos per month, plus some syndicated stuff from folks like Working Class Music and Captain Isotope and Mr. Lobo.

One day in the near future, I'm going to swing by the makerspace and grab my "agile" modulator and bring it down to the cafe.

We have half a dozen TVs at the cafe that could be running the #NETV Livestream we're it not for the struggles inherent in wiring up cable to a big old weird shaped building with a bunch of free floating TVs.

But the agile modulator plus a small antenna pushes a strong enough "bleed" signal that I should be able to get every television with an analog tuner in the place running the same video source with little additional effort.

Man whoever made the bumpers on #netv did a good job

This looks silly!

Three camera feeds of heavy equipment AND the #NETV livestream all running in a double 1080p stream!

Why?

I was reminded earlier of this lovely writeup that @ernie did for us just before New Ellijay Television launched.

https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/

We're 2.5 years in, and we're on cable, and we're livestreaming 24/7, and we're producing a TON of original television.

I'm really grateful to Ernie for writing this, and I'm excited to talk more about #NETV in the future.

The latest episode of The Hastening, my show about US imperialism, is available now on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqeVueu0lfE

It'll be available on the #NETV peertube account whenever it finishes transcoding, and it'll premier on the NETV cable channel and live stream tomorrow at 9am.

This one is a doozy, in which we explain the concept of Crypto-Imperialism, and talk about the concept in the light of the Donald Trump administration.

If you want to help hasten the death of imperialism, I think you will enjoy the program. If you don't want to enrich google (and I don't want you to enrich google) you'll have to wait a few more minutes to watch it, but be on the lookout for a new video from @video shortly.

@nabeards

The cable network and live stream are powered by ffplayout (recently EOL, so I'll have to figure out what I'm gonna do about that) and our VOD is peertube.

We have a roku app (a fork of peervue) and I'd love to get an android/google TV app together.

See #netv or #NewEllijayTelevision for some more info.

I've been working in the garden today. You'll be able to follow along with my quest to have a Lovely Garden soon on New Ellijay TV. The working title is The Castle Garden, for reasons which will become obvious when you see it. No, I don't live in a castle.

#NETV