Broadway TV Station?
Broadway TV Station?
CrAzIaBoUtReNt
Leading Actor Joined: 11/26/04
#0Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:25pmIs there a Broadway TV Station that I don't know of?!?!?!
#1re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:30pm
Nope.
Although in New York City, there is a channel on satiellite (for hotels and maybe those with dishes) which airs Broadway commercials 24/7.
--Aristotle
CrAzIaBoUtReNt
Leading Actor Joined: 11/26/04
#2re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:34pmI think they should have a Broadway channel. Who else is with me?
#3re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:36pmWho would watch it? The mere thousands who visit this website? That's not even enough ratings to surpass The Tonys.
--Aristotle
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#4re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:36pmAnd what exactly would they show? There's about 10 Broadway shows that are put out for the public. That would be a pretty boring channel unless someone hacked into Lincoln Center's Library.
#5re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:42pm
No, I certainly think there is enough to air if such a channel were to exist.
-Movie musicals
-Released plays/musicals that have been recorded
-Concerts (air BC/EFA events, such as Easter Bonnet. Standing Ovations!)
-Commercials for Bway shows
-Have a talk show to discuss the latest news. Interview stars. etc.
-Have special events, like Tony Awards recaps. etc.
--Aristotle
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#6re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 2:47pm
It's probably only a matter of time. I mean, come on, they have a channel that exclusively shows women giving birth. Anything is possible when you have 400+ channels. 
~Jessica
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#7re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:03pmI dont think I would ever leave my house. But yes it is pretty unrealistic considering Tony ratings have been doing really poor lately.
#8re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:16pm
In New York City, every now and then on Public Access, you will get some show referring to Broadway, like Broadway Talk, or that Forbidden Broadway thing...
NY1 also does "On Stage" where updates are given weekly. Other than that, the Broadway world is not so popular...
#9re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:21pmIf you have Brighthouse...channel 437 is all showtunes. A radio station on TV. I'm watching it now, as a matter of fact. *huggles* I love it so much!
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#10re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:23pmI think they've even stopped doing Broadway shows on Pay-Per-View. Remember Smokey Joe's Cafe? They were supposed to do a lot more like that.
#11re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 4:34pm
They were doing that, but then HBO and Showtime started Picking them up...That's why every now and then you can catch SLC or Putting it Together, or J&H.
PBS also plays many on their Great Performances series.
La Vie Boheme
Leading Actor Joined: 1/7/05
#12re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:16pm
Im atching the Bway previews channel right now
zbigner
Stand-by Joined: 12/10/03
#13re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:33pm
Bravo used to have a significant Broadway component back when they only had half a day's worth of programming and no commercials. At some point they woke up and decided they had to make money, and they've been drifting away from Broadway and other performing arts ever since. They still run Inside the Actor's Studio, but it is a shadow of its former self.
There is a channel called Ovations that focuses on performing arts, but I don't think it's widely distributed. We have Directv, and I know they don't have it.
#14re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 6:40pm
Inside the Actor's Studio has nothing to do with Broadway. Though they interview actor's who, sometimes, have been on the stage, it caters more to film.
Bravo has gotten better with their programming, even if they have strayed from the theatre.
The thing is, there aren't many shows filmed for television. Although, when MTV first aired, they kept playing the 100 videos that they had in rotation. I wish there was a broadway station, but the majority of society would rather have their 50 Sports stations than just one that deals with showtunes.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#15re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:36pmConsidering how much certain other channels fragment audiences, I don't see why a channel for musicals would be so out of the question. Movie musicals and films based on plays alone could fill up the days easily- add in a little original programming like interviews, historical documentaries, or maybe even some kind of reality program that shows backstage life, and voila, a sattelite channel is born.
#16re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:39pmThey should have a reality show about a musical, and casting the musical in an American Idol/Project Runway kind of way. That would be friggin awesome. I mean, they had Next Action Hero, and they have The Entertainer. Why not "Broadway Bound"???
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#17re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:46pmNonono. I didn't mean that- I meant something more like "The Restaurant." We don't need TV execs interfering in casting.
#18re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 7:50pmDarn! I was honestly getting ready to find a way to pitch this idea...
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#19re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 9:25pmive watched the one on tvs at the hotels in nyc but i think it would be awesome to have a broadway channel i would actually start watching more TV then surfing the web and chatting to people i would love it and they should play those movie musicals and interviews and things like celebrity oops on broadway
CrAzIaBoUtReNt
Leading Actor Joined: 11/26/04
#20re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 9:46pmSince I have risen the topic of a broadway TV channel, is there a broadway radio station that is not online or on tv, but actually on the radio! I have heard that there is, but I am sort of new to broadway and all that jazz so I wouldn't know.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#21re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/22/05 at 10:48pmNot that I know of, but I don't live in the NYC area anymore so I could be wrong.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#22re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/23/05 at 12:11am
The idea of a reality show about putting on a musical isn't far fetched. A couple of years ago, an Australian TV network did a reality series about a boys' college putting on "ME AND MY GIRL" with a local girls' school. Apart from the inherent dramas of teacher/directors coming across as little Hitlers and teenage boys dressed in 1920s costumes smoking dope backstage when not lumbering around onstage trying to do the Lambeth Walk...
TEACHER: (hysterical) Who didn't say "Oi!"? You're all supposed to say "Oi!"!! Otherwise it SIMPLY WON'T WORK!!!
...there was also the added frisson of watching hot and heavy romances bloom amongst the hormonal cast. Great television.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#23re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/23/05 at 12:56am
There are three broadway channels:
Applevision tv- In hotels. There is a segment with Jeffrey Lyons.
2. Broadway Previews- a show only about theater with interviews, only in hotels
3. Broadwaybeat same kind of thing
#24re: Broadway TV Station?
Posted: 2/23/05 at 7:30pm
if there was any broadway channel i knew of i would tape every secound of it!!is there really one?
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