New public-access show served up on a platter
By adamg - Mon, 01/08/2007 - 10:55am.
Michelle reports that the public-access channel in Framingham now has a show dedicated to music from the 1920s and 1930s. What makes it particularly interesting/boring is that for the entire hour the show is on, the camera never moves from the phonograph playing the music:
... We laughed because we thought it was kind of boring to broadcast for an hour but then I thought I it must not be if someone is into that music, and it's nice someone wants to share that with the public but, is it worth watching a record spin on TV? Is it meant just to have on while you're doing other things around the house? But then you'd just listen to the radio, right? ...
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Watching The Record Spin
Anyone who thinks watching a record spin on TV is somehow weird has obviously never experienced the magic that is the Virtual Yule Log that burns on public access in New York each and every Christmas for hours on end, accompanied by Christmas music...and which Comcast has been offering as a high-definition "On Demand" program for the last month.
God, not the Yule Log!
Don't know about now, but back in the good old days (i.e., when I was a kid growing up Down There), the Yule Log was on Channel 11 - and it was the same 15-second loop repeated endlessly to Christmas music.
I had Channel 11 on my cable up here...
...and loved the yule log. I watched it because it would send my pre-adolesent self into a fit of hysterics; I could not get over the absurdity that people enjoyed the yule log to the point where it pre-empted WPIX staples such as Benson/Magnum PI re-runs or The Shining.
The Yule Log is back
Spent Christmas at my parents' house in CT. Had an hour or two of the Yule Log, and then another hour discussing the history of the Yule Log and how it was ressurected this year (complete with reader letters from the past 20 years praising the Yule Log and begging for it to come back). Not sure if it was on PBS, public access, or good old Channel 11.