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What's On TV in Richmond Virginia

What's On TV in Richmond Virginia:

TV PROGRAMMING ALERTS:


Maxwell Scott (one of the organizers of Radio Free Richmond) has a column in Television & Entertainment (a free print TV guide competitor for the RTD Green Section) that comes out every two weeks in your neighborhood Hannaford's and Ukrops Grocery stores. But if you don't have one yet ...

There are several online TV grids:

1) THE TV guide ...  or the go directly to grid ..
2) SNAP! TV
3) Ultimate TV       
4)  C-Span program grid.

5) (Soon to come) The Cable Public Access program grid. The shows are now done in eight week cycles. The next cycle begins in June. We are working to broaden the diversity of cultures and ideas expressed on Cable Access TV. Cable Access is not "the preacher channel", it is self-selecting, it displays those who show up and volunteer to make grass-roots programming happen.  If you or your favorite local organization would like to do a show, either an entire eight week slot or one show one night, call Radio Free Richmond Project and we can facilitate your 60 minutes of fame (or infamy, its up to you). 804-649-WRFR or email.
 

Radio Free Richmond Project would like to point out that all that is on Television is not negative or brain-candy. Some of it is nutritious and helpful.

To get the most out of Television, instead of aimlessly surfing away eight hours a day ...

  • RFRP suggests that you spend 15 minutes or so cozying up to the greek in the VCR user guide ... or bribe the kid to decipher it for you.
  • Then consult Television & Entertainment and set the VCR timer for 6 or 8 hours of just the good stuff.
  • Then you can commit some "quality time" with the kids, or use one of those "round tuits" you got for Christmas. Then at your leisure (or boredom) come back and watch the tape when nothing else in real life is happening.
    • This is just about guaranteed to reduce TV time by half ... and generally just to the good stuff. Besides, sometimes something is good enough to share and see again.

    Another interesting thing to do is check the online program grid for different cities and see what programming is supported by the culture of a different city.
    By the way, if you go to this link and scroll down to "receive eclectic radio" for the reception tips, those tips also work for receiving Norfolk or even DC TV.

    Other Links:


    Just as the Richmond Times Dispatch has their selection of featured shows in the lower center of the Green Section ... so we also have our recommended shows:

    CBS 60 Minutes : Who ever said good reporting had to be objective, whoever came up with this idea that humans were supposed to be objective anyway? It's gratifying to note that, next to football, America's favorite team to root for are those who chase white collar criminals with a camera.
     

    Deep Space 9: Check out Quark for the lowbrow critique of Capitalism sans ethics, "Rule of Acquisition #xx: Exploitation begins in the home." Brrrrr!

    Anything on POV: Do they carry them all?
     


    SHOWS YOU ARE MISSING:

    Shows that some of us wish Richmonder's could receive from local stations. Please email information about excellent shows that you have seen in other cities.

    Dr. Who : Science Fiction with more plot than sets ... which isn't saying much. It is an excellent commentary on the truly 
    sorry condition of most TV and movie Science Fiction. Most Science Fiction in print tries to make the hyperspace jump from merely prepubescent all the way to early adulthood. Still young enough to speculate but not as fixated on nipples. Unfortunately, the transition to the screen almost always reinserts the pathetic elements. Dr. Who is short on sets and long on speculative "what ifs" for the characters to play with.
    So far TV (even with Dr. Who) has not disproven the rule-of-thumb that "its better in the book." If you want plot, buy a book.

    Deep Dish TV: Prides itself on home-grown canned video productions ... but nationally distributed by satellite!  They are almost as slick as those documentaries on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) but more authentic, and a lot cheaper to produce! As a result, there are topics and viewpoints here that are rather unlikely to appear on the Petroleum Broadcasting System or No Brains Contained (NBC) here.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

  • *= NOTE:] There is no picture on that TV screen!

    • Try this, take an adjustable 35 mm camera. Set the shutter speed for something pretty fast and take a picture of the TV screen, close up so the whole screen fills the frame of the picture. Say 250th of a second or faster.
    Now crank down on the aperture (make it small, the larger numbers on the barrel of the lens) and use a really slow shutter speed, like an 8th or a 4th of a second (brace it on a stack of phone books or whatever). Then when you get them developed you will notice that the faster shot shows a dot or a streak, not a picture! There is no picture, ... EVER. There is a dot of glowing phosphors where the electron beam from the back of the TV is guided to smack into the back of the screen and cause a spot to glow. This is then waved around so fast that your brain can't see it. So since your brain is programmed to see patterns, whether they are accurate or even exist at all or not ... your brain assembles this into a "picture". An excellent (and humbling) analogy for reality.

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