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If you could start your own TV network, what would you call it?

posted 12 years ago by Thor-Delta
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If I became a rich businessman (not very likely) and could found my own TV network, I'd call it "DeWitt Television Network", in reference to the DuMont Network. I'd probably even repeat a few DuMont series like "The Goldbergs" during the summer just for fun (mind you, I'd like to bring back the idea of producing new summer replacement series).

I had an idea for friday night and saturday night, which would have a repeat of "The Morey Amsterdam Show" at 11:30PM, following by an anime series aimed at "mature audiences". The idea of following a late-1940s TV repeat with a anime series thrills me for some reason....though if I had a network, it wouldn't be focused on repeats.

A few classic show repeats here and there but mainly new series. How about some new anthology series? Or a classy revival of "What's My Line"? I have a very intersting idea for an animated series but I won't go into that (erm...), as well about four dozen other programming ideas ranging from "probably wouldn't work, but maybe" to "why hasn't that been done yet?".

So, if you had your own TV network, what would you call it? What would you show?

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[–] omnidragon123 12 years ago

i would call my network classic uncut.
My network would show all the classic shows without the cuts like turner classic movies

durning the day family/cartoons like All flintstones Not just the classic ones but meet the Frankenstones ect

At night well escape time like

Lucy night ( i love lucy/here'a lucy/the Lucy ahow
tues-knight rider/a team/airwolf
wed-hang in there night vary
thus-almost the weekend end night shows like night court/happy days ect
friday-short run/canceled too soon
weekend-wild fun time All Star Trek/lost in Space/Bigfoot and wildboy ect!

repeat to yourself it's just a show you shoulduc really just relax.b

[–] Thor-Delta 12 years ago

Interesting!

friday-short run/canceled too soon

Great idea.

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[–] blaque108 11 years ago

Great topic OP.

I often played around with this one.

If I had my own network I'm not sure what the name would be just yet I know I would play nothing but old school sitcoms from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. It would somewhat like TV Land but 20x times better. I'll probably try to make the network fun by having little interviews of people explaining what made their era nostaliga.

[–] cyclerrollie 11 years ago

RDTV. Fridays would look something like this

Friends
That's 70s Show
My Name Is Earl
Go On
Last Man Standing
Two And A Half Men

[–] first-things-first 10 years ago

The channel would be call Stand Up, and I would show drama, comedy, science fiction, horror, war/ battle, game, sports, romance, and would reflect real life. I would not cater to one section of the viewing audience, and no reality shows or infomercials.
Edit: I also like Right Choice station too.

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[–] blaque108 10 years ago

I just thought about something I would create a classic stand up comedy channel.

I would have Eddie Murphy Raw/Delirious

Richard Pryor
Red Foxx

and etc you don't see to many old school stand up on TV, I'm assuming they can't show it because of all the vulgar language.

[–] first-things-first 10 years ago

"Old School" comedy in deed. I saw Richard Pryor once in concert at college. I had no idea how raw comics could be, since I only saw them on sit coms at the dinner hour. You might introduce a new generation to their talent. It's not like they don't hear it in the music...

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