Watching The Tube tonight, I see that it's soliciting feedback at respond@thetubetv.com. Perhaps on a related note, several of the Lick stations are carrying an hour or two of Tube in the evenings. I can pick up KDEV OTA, and it was interesting to watch the OTA signal about a second before the satellite version.
Googling around on the parent company, AgU Entertainment, I find dozens of stories of a rapper with the initials ODB, and one interesting article from May 2004 (http://www.freelists.org/archives/opendtv/05-2004/msg00071.html). The article suggests that The Tube's raison d'etre is to work with OTA broadcasters to populate one of their multiple digital signals once they start actually broadcasting digitally. "They've got 19 megabits of bandwidth and nothing to put on it," the article quoted Tube creator Les Garland.
More notes:
The Tube is based in Lauderdale Lakes FL, where the parent company (http://www.agustudios.com/) recently bought a future film production complex. (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/10812702.htm)
A related story adds that The Tube "airs in 1 million homes" (really?) and plans to expand to 30 million by the end of the year. (http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2005/01/10/story4.html)
IMHO, The Tube is simply the best music channel available anywhere. (Then again, AgU designed it for the over-30 crowd.) I hope it prospers.
Googling around on the parent company, AgU Entertainment, I find dozens of stories of a rapper with the initials ODB, and one interesting article from May 2004 (http://www.freelists.org/archives/opendtv/05-2004/msg00071.html). The article suggests that The Tube's raison d'etre is to work with OTA broadcasters to populate one of their multiple digital signals once they start actually broadcasting digitally. "They've got 19 megabits of bandwidth and nothing to put on it," the article quoted Tube creator Les Garland.
More notes:
The Tube is based in Lauderdale Lakes FL, where the parent company (http://www.agustudios.com/) recently bought a future film production complex. (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/10812702.htm)
A related story adds that The Tube "airs in 1 million homes" (really?) and plans to expand to 30 million by the end of the year. (http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2005/01/10/story4.html)
IMHO, The Tube is simply the best music channel available anywhere. (Then again, AgU designed it for the over-30 crowd.) I hope it prospers.
