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channel 4 in cincinnati

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skippercollector

I would like to know the name of the station and the name of the shows that fit this description.
It was Time Warner cable (pre-Spectrum) in the city of Cincinnati in the early 2000s. This was channel 4 on my TV. The channel was not listed in the local TV guides. I think it was a local station and it aired really bizarre things, not overnight but during the day. One episode of a program that I remember was of a young girl talking about making a cake, and she didn't want to put salt in it because the cake was sweet and it didn't need salt. The other was out-of-this-world strange: an elderly overweight white-haired very homely woman in a flowered dress was always spouting off conspiracy theories about various demographic groups. She was doing this long before conspiracy theories became the in thing.
 
skippercollector said:
I would like to know the name of the station and the name of the shows that fit this description.
It was Time Warner cable (pre-Spectrum) in the city of Cincinnati in the early 2000s. This was channel 4 on my TV. The channel was not listed in the local TV guides. I think it was a local station and it aired really bizarre things, not overnight but during the day. One episode of a program that I remember was of a young girl talking about making a cake, and she didn't want to put salt in it because the cake was sweet and it didn't need salt. The other was out-of-this-world strange: an elderly overweight white-haired very homely woman in a flowered dress was always spouting off conspiracy theories about various demographic groups. She was doing this long before conspiracy theories became the in thing.
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Sounds like local cable access.
 
My first impulse was to say that it sounds like WTTV from Indianapolis, but I don't think they had quirky programming like that.

I'd love to see a videotape of the conspiracy theory lady. Sounds like the Church Lady meets Alex Jones. In Cincinnati, I wouldn't be totally flabbergasted by that.
 
Agree that it sounds like cable access/public access. There are lots of videos on YouTube showing that type of programming - and some of the prank calls to those programs also became the stuff of local legend. In fact, Howard Stern's staff used to put together a fair amount of bits, composed of the audio of them calling into public access programs and pranking the hosts live on the air.
 
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