Green TV

[elfcurry]

Seeing so many threads about The Good Life here, I was idly thinking there should be a channel just continuously looping Tom And Barbara.

Then I thought there are other green, organic or self-sufficiency related programmes, like It's Not Easy Being Green, some news reports from main channels on green issues, relevent documentaries and wondered if there is enough material. Then I wondered how it could be paid for. If it didn't get public service broadcasting status and put on BBC it would have to be supported by advertising.

It'll never work. I can't imagine which companies would be willing to advertise to to people like us, mostly determined NOT to spend money!

But could it work? What about a couple of hours in the middle of the night on an obscure freeview channel? A few adverts from solar cell, wind or micro hydro producers, water treatment, organic seed, animal feed merchants...

I'd watch (or rather record it for later); would you? Are there enough people like us for it to make it work?

More ideas?

(Yes, I know about selfsufficient.tv but I'm still on dial-up.)

[Muddypause]

Well, if you'll settle for radio rather than TV, I found these two internet radio stations a while ago.

For Radio Green Live, enter http://64.62.252.134:7306 into your prefered media player (eg. Winamp - right click on the Play button, select Open URL... and entre the URL in the box).

For Radio Ecoshock, enter http://212.72.186.18:8340

You won't find The Good Life on either of them; one is American based, and the other Canadian. But they do rebroadcast stuff that has been on more mainstream radio, including BBC. And they broadcast at pretty low bandwidth, so should be OK on dial-up.

[elfcurry]

OK thanks; I'll give them a try sometime when I get the sound on this machine connected up.

[Shirley]

Try this : www.green.tv