cable-access

"A lot of the cable-access shows look a lot less dated than regular TV."

Before the Web, It Was Public-Access Steve Dollar 2011

But in case you missed the story stuff, or forgot it, or blocked it, here's what you need to know: Mr. Schue picks Artie to direct a throwback Christmas special for Lima's cable-access station, which interferes with the glee club's promise to help Sue serve at a homeless shelter this year, she's the anti-Grinch, but they show up anyway to sing the Band Aid classic "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

Glee's Holiday Throwback: Let's Go Back to Christmas in the '60s! 2011

Back in the early '90s, at print bOING bOING, we all took a shine to a Bloomington, IN cable-access TV show called "J & B on the Rox," or just "Rox" (in Wired, Mark called Rox "the best TV show in America").

Boing Boing 2009

"The first post-bunker interview on my cable-access show."

‘Portlandia’ star, guitarist Carrie Brownstein finds outlet for all her interests Chris Richards 2011

This week's story on the Escape Pod sf podcast is Marc Laidlaw's "Sleepy Joe," a grimly comic, apocalyptic story about paralegals with a secret cable-access show who find themselves caring for (and kidnapping) a brainwashed war-veteran who's been turned into a human weapon.

Boing Boing 2009

HSN — created in 1977 as a radio show and then a local cable-access program — was the first TV shopping network.

The Golden Age of TV Shopping Elizabeth Holmes 2010

Alan was generous enough to read scripts I was writing for a cable-access show and invite me to events in the city.

Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010

The founder discovered it was cheaper to buy satellite time rather than blocks of cable-access time, so ESPN started out as a national show on satellite.

Sarah Palin's "unstable grip on reality." Ann Althouse 2009

Wasilla, Alaska was pretty effing far removed from most cable-access stations in the late 1970s.

Sarah Palin's "unstable grip on reality." Ann Althouse 2009

Goldstein even devoted his cable-access show "Midnight Blue" to haranguing Lozinski.

American Beat: Porn To Be Mild 2007