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Folk TV-New channel Dish (ch. 218)

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New channel Folk TV launched recently on Dish (channel 218). I can't seem to see anything website or anything on the Internet for it
So far, Folk TV shows are:
Life of Riley
Jack Benny
Adventures Ozzie & Harriet
Andy Griffith
Bonanza
Roy Rogers
Sargent Preston

Weekends are filled with Forensic Files & movies
Mon-Fri has a lot of TBA blocks that needs to be filled.
It seems to have some sort of programming deal with program distribution company Trifecta Entertainment as Last Shot with Judge Gunn, Forensic Files and Celebrity Page air on Folk TV (Judge Faith also airs) Are the movies Folk TV shows all public domain? Forensic Files seems to be a program that can be acquired by any old channel. Why is this? Wasn't infomercial channel ICTV (channel 81) showing a few episodes a day of Forensic Files, has this stopped now?
 
The Andy Griffith Show episodes are very likely only the PD ones, and the other classic TV shows are mostly or all PD as well. There are a bunch of channels on Roku showing the same stuff.
 
anotherguy said:
The Andy Griffith Show episodes are very likely only the PD ones, and the other classic TV shows are mostly or all PD as well. There are a bunch of channels on Roku showing the same stuff.
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What does PD mean exactly?
 
Folk TV actually have a Facebook page. They are adding TV series Route 66 and The Saint from next week. Also from a post from before they launched it said they were going to be airing Divorce Court but it doesn't seem to be showing. Celebrity Page also seems to be off the schedule since it launched.
 
umfan said:
Some good shows on there. I'd give it a try.
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Meh. I don't know how these channels survive. I would watch Jack Benny and Life of Riley, but you can get full episodes of both of those shows on You Tube without commercials - though granted, limited eps, and not the entire series. For me, those others have been mostly played to death.
 
Life of Riley is really old... I believe Jackie Gleason was Riley in the first year, even before The Honeymooners. Then William Bendix took over.

After seeing Route 66 a few times on Antenna TV, I really liked that show. It was well ahead of its time, written and produced by people who had been Hollywood movie folks. But Antenna isn't airing it at this time.

And it seems like Bonanza is on so many channels. Even Inspiration airs it, which was formerly a religion channel but now airs old Westerns and other family shows.
 
It's run by the architect of Equity/Luken's Retro TV, Neal Ardman. He had been selling a number of Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics) cartoons to other diginets in syndication. I guess he wanted to revive "Unreliable Sources" surrounded by public domain and lower-end syndicated shows.
 
I've observed that they show the same Roy Rogers show two days in a row, so they're just more of the repeat programming we're seeing everywhere these days. Movies are also repeated. The Lone Ranger is pretty much all I watch on the channel. Forensic Files is a permanent fixture on HLN to fill air time and they repeat the same episodes over and over even though there are over 300 episodes to choose from. I can only afford to subscribe to a $40/month package on Dish and I'm about to just cancel altogether since I can watch practically everything in my lineup for free on YouTube. So many satellite channels these days have zero variety. For example, TV Land will show Two and a Half Men for 9 hours straight, then another show for 9 hours straight etc etc. It's like this on channel after channel. Today, DISC is showing Dirty Jobs all day long. When they do this, it means they've practically eliminated having to have humans running the channel and their computers will air the shows and commercials on auto-pilot. Just like radio stations. They used to do this mainly on holidays and weekends but now it's all the time. Obviously, cable is superior to satellite if you're in a large metro area but in rural areas like mine, we don't have cable and satellite's the only game in town.
 
I do believe that most or maybe all of their programming is public domain. You'll notice that some of the movies are very poor quality and appear to be from an old VHS master tape.
 
aircheck said:
I've observed that they show the same Roy Rogers show two days in a row, so they're just more of the repeat programming we're seeing everywhere these days. Movies are also repeated. The Lone Ranger is pretty much all I watch on the channel. Forensic Files is a permanent fixture on HLN to fill air time and they repeat the same episodes over and over even though there are over 300 episodes to choose from. I can only afford to subscribe to a $40/month package on Dish and I'm about to just cancel altogether since I can watch practically everything in my lineup for free on YouTube. So many satellite channels these days have zero variety. For example, TV Land will show Two and a Half Men for 9 hours straight, then another show for 9 hours straight etc etc. It's like this on channel after channel. Today, DISC is showing Dirty Jobs all day long. When they do this, it means they've practically eliminated having to have humans running the channel and their computers will air the shows and commercials on auto-pilot. Just like radio stations. They used to do this mainly on holidays and weekends but now it's all the time. Obviously, cable is superior to satellite if you're in a large metro area but in rural areas like mine, we don't have cable and satellite's the only game in town.
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That sounds EXACTLY like how Retro TV was run after they were kicked out of the Little Rock hub. Episodes would repeat on a daily basis.

aircheck said:
I do believe that most or maybe all of their programming is public domain. You'll notice that some of the movies are very poor quality and appear to be from an old VHS master tape.
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I would say most of the shows are straight barter (like the Trifecta-distributed shows "Forensic Files" and "Judge Faith"), and the movies might be low-cost cash or PD. The old '50s shows are definitely either PD or Ardman holds the rights to distribute.
 
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