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   Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:26:18 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

   We are trying to change the face of television, with entirely independent produced and distributed, community driven media.

   We're making a new kind of TV. A smaller kind of TV. We're distributing it ourselves.

   You can watch along live streaming or VOD at https://vod.newellijay.tv

   I'm working on overhauling the main website for our network, which lives at https://newellijay.tv

   And, of course, all of this is built on the history and principles of Community Media which you can read about at https://communitymedia.network

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:26:10 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️

     @mlanger @ajroach42 Probably that's for the best, then. Better to fall out early than after a lengthy engagement.

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     Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️ (mlanger@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:26:12 JST Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️

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     @ajroach42

     You lost this content creator at “capitalist hellscape world.” 🙄

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:26:14 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     2) New Ellijay Telecision needs advertisements and sponsors.

     It's a fact of life in this capitalist hellscape hellworld that things cost money. Most of the original content on NETV is funded out of my pocket (and I'm "unemployed" at the moment) or out of the makerspace budget, and that's why it comes out so slowly.

     Editors, writers, actors, etc cost money.

     We have a small group of volunteers working on this stuff and a smaller group of paid employees but producing a weekly news program, political analysis, scifi sitcoms, office dramadies about hunting bigfoot, a very queer mistress of the night midnight movie program, live concerts, and a lot more besides is hard to do without funding.

     So! We're selling advertising, patreon style sponsorship packages, and hand made merchandise https://newellijay.tv/shop/

     Help us make more TV

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:26:15 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     So how do we blast off?

     1) we need more!

     Make TV with us, send us your videos, if you've sent me stuff in the past and it didn't make it on the channel, it's probably because I forgot about it. Resubmit, submit new things. I prefer cc-by or cc-by-sa stuff, but we'll take any license including all rights reserved.

     We're looking for content for our live stream and things to add to VOD. Let us know if you're interested in one, the other, or both!

     I can only pay a small fee for videos right now, because we're basically only breaking even on the network, but that changes with #2.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:26:17 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     Our live streaming content is currently played in 6 businesses around our community ~10 hours a day, to dozens or hundreds of locals and tourists.

     Our roku app has hundreds of installs and several dozen active daily users, most of whom also watch our live stream for a few hours each day.

     I don't have specific aggregate statistics on per video views, because most people who watch our videos do it through a platform other than our website, and views through alternative platforms don't count towards our "views" count on peertube but, at least within Ellijay, we've got some reach.

     And we're looking to 🚀 blast off 🚀 in 2024.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:27:26 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @ajroach42 Atlanta Roller Derby had a pretty good experiment streaming our last two games of the season. I bet we could work on redistribution with you if you're interested.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:29:27 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @ajroach42 it's all good. We're electing new league officers and it's a chance to start again. We did a good stream with basically no crew, so we could even look into just redistributing that.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 06:29:28 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail yeah!!

     I know those talks kind of floundered, but we just don't have the crew to send out for coverage yet.