Turns out Friday is TV day.

We have the first episode of #sitv Shouting into the Void, a new episode of Dark Mistresses' Midnight Movie *AND* a new guided meditation series from Bubba.

And if you're very lucky, tomorrow we'll have a new episode of Drivin'! (I forgot to press "upload" before I left the fast internet today."

Also, our #NETV #NewEllijayTV roku app was removed from devices because it had been too long since we created it without publishing it.

If you were using the Roku app, the new vanity code is here:

https://my.roku.com/account/add/HVJH695

I mentioned elsewhere, but want to reiterate here, I am looking for someone to help bring our roku app up over the finish line.

If you're interested n learning roku development, please reach out!

You need roku hardware (there is no emulator) but otherwise, development is pretty easy. The device uses an in house language. It's very simple, and not especially powerful.

The changes we need to make are not huge, but they would require more uninterrupted coding time than I often have.

On the other hand, I'm pretty good at helping folks unblock themselves. I can't hold your hand through the dev, but I can keep you on the track.

Sometimes it feels like I'm moving in slow motion, because I want New Ellijay Television to be releasing 30+ hours of original material every week, and we can barely manage 3 hours of original material every week right now but...

It's important for me to take a step back and remember that we are in fact making a ton of stuff, and the work that we're doing is very hard.

@ajroach42 I kinda feel like you're living the Weird Al dream TBH.
@Soozcat That's what Ernie said in his piece about us https://tedium.co/2022/10/21/new-ellijay-tv-diy-tv-network/
New Ellijay TV: Making Local TV Awesome Again

In a world of media conglomerates, do regular folks have a shot at building TV for themselves anymore? In one rural Georgia mountain town, the answer is yes.

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
@ajroach42 I just barely finished reading that!
@ajroach42 It reminds me of some of the homegrown SF Bay Area stations I used to watch as a kid in the '70s and early '80s. Things like KTVU 2 in Oakland and KBHK 44 in San Francisco were quirky local stations with quirky local programming. IIRC the evening weatherman was also the costumed host of "Captain Cosmic," an afternoon show full of anime, short-form sci-fi and rubbersuit movies for pupating nerds and geeks. It was great.

@Soozcat @ajroach42 I watched him too when I was a kid. I searched for a couple of images of him and, omg, I just realized the the lightning bolt on his chest was a '2' for KTVU-2 I thought it was just a bolt.

I love watching Bob Wilkins as Cpt. Cosmic then catching him at night on Creature Features

@hinano @ajroach42 He was so fun. All the media, whether it was science fiction, anime, horror or weird little shorts, it was obvious he had a huge passion for it. My brothers used to race each other home to watch Captain Cosmic, and a lot of their current taste in movies stems from that show.
@Soozcat @hinano any surviving footage?
@ajroach42 @hinano YT probably has some. I'll take a peek.
Captain Cosmic Wed 10 25 78

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@ajroach42 @hinano they also have a few Creature Features shows, some Dialing for Dollars hosted by Pat McCormick, and also some of his PSA in-betweeners featuring puppets Charley and Humphrey.