Rtn!!

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I discovered this wonderful digital subchannel from the tv repair forums and thought I would draw some attention to it here.

The Retro Television Network schedules all older and mostly forgotten shows. Battlestar Galactica, A-team, and Rockford Files to name a few. They are stictly selling their network to tv stations for use only on digital subchannels. They have affiliates nationwide, so if you have your converter box hooked up, you may get them. Although here we watch it on Comcast channel 246.

What's so great about this network is just how zero budget it is. Commercial breaks are rare, and they seem to only have about five sponsors so they don't have much to advertise when they go to break anyway. A quick look at their website shows just how little they care (only a few links lead anywhere).

Just tonight, we discovered that they play Off Beat Theater, basically a bad movie hosted by beatnicks! Tonight's film was Dr. Sardonicus, which from viewing their website seems to be a pretty mainstream film for them.

Other favorites that we regularly watch are The Incredible Hulk, Voyagers!, Buck Rogers, Night Gallery and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. With cable tv networks mostly showing original new programming (read: reality tv) RTN is now our most watched station. I just told my Dad about it and he is thrilled! Just wanted to get the word out on this before this flimsy channel collapses.