Your Own TV Network - What would it be like?

[ryan423]

If you had your own TV network, what would it be like? What would you call it? What kind of programming would it be and why? What would your schedule and primetime line-up include?

For my network, I wouLd call it RG-TV (Real Good TV). It would include a variety of programming from news to family comedies, classic television and a primetime line-up full of variety. I would introduce great family sitcoms like those of the 90's like Roseanne, The Fresh Prince, Blossom, etc. and would also have great dramas like the short-lived studio 60 on the sunset strip! My schedule would be something like this;

6-9am - News
9am - 12am - Talk Shows
12-2pm - Children/Teen Programming
1-4pm - Dramas like 7th Heaven, Everwood and Summerland...
5-8pm - Great Syndicated comedies (Friends, Raymond, King of Queens, George Lopez, Reba, Two and a half men, etc.)
8-10pm - Primetime TV (NO REALITY GARBAGE)
10PM - 6am - Something similiar to Nick @ Nite including classic sitcoms like All in the Family and The Jeffersons as well as family sitcoms like boy meets world, full house, family matters, etc.

What would you Television network be like?

[Ireneparalegal]

Let me make it easy.

Not like ION. Not like TVLAND. Not like any of those stupid networks that have changed their formats.

[friendsfan77]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Let me make it easy.

Not like ION. Not like TVLAND. Not like any of those stupid networks that have changed their formats.

I completely and wholeheartedly agree.

[AYBS_Wiz]

My network would be called FE-TV (Full Entertainment Television) and would comprise of quality televsion drama and comed, NO reality television. Asthe network developed it would include more original programming, like home-grown Dramas and comedies makde direct for FE-TV

Scheduale would be

6am-9am: The Morning Program (Morning News and Current Affairs program)
9am-10am: Talk show like Oprah, Ricki Lake or Dr. Phil
10am-11am: Summerland
11am-12pm: Summerland
12pm-1pm: Joan of Arcadia
1pm-2pm: Joan of Arcadia
2pm-3pm: 7th Heaven
3pm-4pm: Grey's Anatomy
4pm-4.30pm: Tacky daytime soap (new one every day. Eg. B&B, Y&R, Days, All My Children & As The World Turns)
4.30pm-5.30pm: The Nanny
5.30pm-6.30pm: Reba
6.30pm-7pm: Australian Primetime Soap Neighbours
7pm-7.30pm: Australian Primetime Soap Home & Away
7.30pm-8pm: Are You Being Served?
8pm-9pm: Australian drama McLeod's Daughters
9pm-10pm: Ghost Whisperer
10pm-11pm: Providence
11pm-1am: Late Night Movie (Possibly one based on a Britcom or a Carry On...)
1am-2am: Syndicated Desperate Housewives
2am-3am: Prisoner: Cell Block H
3am-6am: Nostaligia TV - A compilation of nostalgic sitcoms and dramas like A Country Practice & On The Buses.

[Tubehead]

my classic tv
cartoon madness mondays
7:00am power rangers
7:30 am teeange mutant ninja turtles
8:00am garfield
8:30am heathcliff
9:00a, dension the meance
9:30am Johnny quest
10:00am captian planet
10:30am the surfms
11:00am batman the Animated series
11:30 spider-man Animated series
12:00pm sliver hawks
12:30pm he-man and master of the univser
1:00pm super maro bothers super show
1:30pm goof troop
2:0opm duck tales
2:30pm chip and dale resucer ragners
3:00pm Ben 10
3:30pm Ben 10
4:00pm strom hawks
5:00pm brave star
5:30pm inspectir gadit
6:00pm the real ghostbusters
6:30pm doug
6:00pm bobby world
6:30pm a pup name scobby doo
7:00pm scooby doo where are you
7:30pm the flistones
8:00pm wait unitl your father gets home
8:30pm the jetsons
9:0pm two stupid dogs
9:30pm Johnny bravo
10:00pm Dexter labtory
10:30pm tinny toons
11:0pm lonney toons
11:30pm anaminces


Classic sitcomes tuesday
7:00am the andy griffth show
7:30am good times
8:00am green acres
8:30am the addanms family
9:00am giilligan's isaland
9:30 the bob newheart show
10:00aam dick van dyke show
10:30am mary talyer more show
11:00am Taxie
11:30 am night court
12:00pm sanford and son
12:30pm different stroks
1:00pm Wings
1:30pm Cheers
2:00pm all in the family
2:30pm haning with mr copper
3:00pm happy days
3:30pm whos the boss?
4;00pm family ties
4:30p I love lucy
5:00pm the hoonymooners
6:00pm the munster
6:30pm the jerffers
7:00pm what happening
7:30pm F-Troop
8:00pm family maters
9:30pm home inprovment
9:30pm step by step
10:00pm mamma's family
10':30pm boy meets world
11:00pm the wonder years
11:30pm court ship of eddies father
12:00am batman tv show
12:30am California dreams
1:00am alf
1:30am i dream of jennie
2:00am bewitched
3:00am Chico and the Man
3:30am wleomce back ,kottoer
4:00am perfect strangers



hour long shows on tuesdays
7:00am Price is right
8:00am rengade
9:00am beauty and the best
9:00am the incdabile hulk
10:00am John doe
1!:00am Kle xy
12:00pm the invisable man
1:0pm the rockford files
2:00pm Kung fu
3:00pmKung fu : the legend continues
4:00pm Quatuam leap
5:00pm Jourany man
6:00pm Ealry edition
7:00pm Alsia
8:00pm day break
9:99pm american best dance crew
9:00pm Fear factor
10:00pm the A-Team
11:0pm Er
12:00am Magnum Pi
1:00am Love boat
2:00am the greatet americna hero
3:00am freeks and geeks

back to back espideso

7:00am the munster
7:30 am the munsters
8:00am giilligan's isaland
8:30am giilligan's isaland
9:00am alf
9:30am alf
10:00am the wonder year
10:30am the wonder years
11:00am Boymeeets world
11:30am boy meets world
12:00pm I love lucy
12:30pm I love lucy
1:00pm the hooney mooners
1:30pm the hooneymooners
2:00pm Family ties
2:30pm family ties
3:00pm family matters
3:330pm family matters
4:00pm sanford and son
4:30pm sanford and son
5:00pm California dreams
5:30pm California dreams

[AYBS_Wiz]

^ Not bad. My typical weekend on FE-TV would be

Saturday
6am-7am: Scooby-Doo
7am-8am: Hannah Montana
8am-9am: The Flnstones/Jetsons Hour
9am-10am: The Simpsons Syndication Hour
10am-12pm: Childrens Telemovie (like High School Musical, The Cheetah Girls ect...)
12pm-1pm: The OC
1pm-3pm: Playin' in Playa Linda (3 back-to-back episodes of Summerland)
3pm-4pm: The Vicar of Dibley
4pm-7pm Six Friends Together
7pm-7.30pm: Classic Home & Away
7.30pm-9.30pm: A Country Practice
9.30pm-10.30pm: Forensic Files
10.30pm-11pm: Soap
11pm-11.30pm: M*A*S*H
11.30pm-12.30am: Sex and the City
12.30am-1am: MADtv
1am-2am: The Golden Girls
2am-6am: Classic Drama block - All your favourite dramas and soap operas together. Dynasty, Dallas, Models Inc., Knotts Landing ect.

Sunday
6am-8.30am: The Weekend Morning Program
8.30am-12.30pm: Britcom Central - all your favourite british Sitcoms in one place
12.30pm-1pm: ...And That Was The Week that Was - A weekly current affairs program to keep you up to date with all the latest news
1pm-2pm: Friends
2pm-5pm: Greatest British Drama (Consists of The Royal, Heartbeat & The Bill)
5pm-7pm: Cult Classic Movie
7pm-9pm: Dramedy Night - The Best Dramedy movies and TV shows we can offer
9pm-6am: Daytime Soap @ Night - catch up with your favourite daytime soaps as they take over the night.

[waichingliu81]

mines would be called the classic sitcoms and toons channel. it will have nothing but vintage and quality cartoon shows and sitcoms- my favourite tv genres- from the 50s up until the 2000s. no reality tv garbage, dramas, quiz shows for eg

the shows would range from different strokes, who's the boss?, the jeffersons, the cosby show, fresh prince of bel air, frasier, to name to cartoons such as alvin and the chipmunks, thundercats, hanna barbera, warner bros favourites and disney cartoon series such as duck tales, goof troop, darkwing duck, chip'n'dale etc

[jimpickens]

My network will be called the It's My Network And I'll Show What I Want and it will show TV series, cartoons, and documentaries banned from the networks due to political correctness uncut with no commercials plus original programing.

[Scoobiedoo30]

This is my schedule Monday Through Sunday

at 5:05 am Seinfeld
at 5:35 am Seinfeld
at 6:05 am 7th Heaven
at 7:05 am Bewitched
at 7:35 am I Dream of Jeannie
at 8:05 am Yes Dear
at 8:35 Good Times
at 9:05 am Magnum P.I.
at 10:05 am Dallas
at 11:05 am Frasier
at 11:35 am Frasier
at 12:05 pm Make room for Daddy
at 12:35 pm Mr Ed
at 1:05 pm The Cosby Show
at 1:35 pm Family Ties
at 2:05 pm Cheers
at 2:35 pm Night Court
at 3:05 pm Amen
at 3:35 pm Empty Nest
at 4:05 pm Nurses
at 4:35 pm The Golden Girl's
at 5:05 pm Soap
at 5:35 pm The Andy Griffith Show
at 6:05 pm Friends
at 6:35 pm Green Acres
at 7:05 pm The Bob Newhart Show
at 7:35 pm Newhart
at 8:05 pm Kate and Allie
at 8:35 pm Wings
at 9:05 pm Matlock
at 10:05 pm Who's The Boss?
at 10:35 pm Growing Pains
at 11:05 pm Benson
at 11:35 pm Sanford And Son
at 12:05 am Trapper John M.D.
at 1:05 am in The Heat of The Night
at 2:05 am Love Boat
at 3:05 am Sex in The City
at 3:35 am Sex in The City
at 4:05 La Law

[James28]

If I had my own television network, it would be named JBC and my schedule will consist of 15-20 animated sitcom and drama shows spread from Sunday through Friday, with movies on Saturday. I won't be showing any "classic" programming on my network, but I will be showing a 2-hour block in the afternoons. Pee-wee's Playhouse would be one of the shows on this block.

[oz615]

can't think of a catch name but it's pretty much like old school USA Network on Steriods (a mix of movies,off-network series,kids and teens programing,sports,and news that isn't fear mongering,sensationalized and biased

[PlayOn]

mine would be old shows. i may pick up a few originals but not go over board like these crazy "classic TV" networks are doing. A few things I would pick up: The Carol Burnett Show, All in the Family, The Facts if Life along with a few old cartoons and more old sitcoms, variety and game shows.
BTW, my network name would be B-TV (because my name is Brandon)

[bencasey]

Mon - Fri

6:00 AM December Bride
6:30 Our Miss Brooks
7:00 Sgt. Bilko
7:30 Dobie Gillis
8:00 San Francisco Beat
8:30 The Millionaire
9:00 The Gale Storm Show
9:30 The Ann Sothern Show
10:00 The Jack Benny Show
10:30 My Little Margie
11:00 Life of Riley
11:30 Mr. Peepers
12:00 M Squad
12:30 Racket Squad
1:00 Dragnet (1950s version)
1:30 Mike Hammer (1950s)
2:00 Farmer's Daughter
2:30 Pete and Gladys
3:00 Private Secretary
3:30 Make Room for Daddy
4:00 You Bet Your Life
4:30 People Are Funny
5:00 Tales of Wells Fargo (1/2 hours)
5:30 Trackdown
6:00 The Rebel
6:30 Have Gun Will Travel
7:00 Run For Your Life
8:00 The Bold Ones
9:00 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
10:00 It Takes a Thief
11:00 The Defenders
12:00 Thriller
1:00 Mr. Novak
2:00 Wagon Train
3:00 Dr. Kildare
4:00 Roaring 20's
5:00 NYPD
5:30 Hennesey


Saturday

6:00 Five Fingers
7:00 Greatest Show on Earth
8:00 He and She
8:30 Love on a Rooftop
9:00 Pistols and Petticoats
9:30 Second Hundred Years
10:00 Occasional Wife
10:30 Hank
11:00 The Jean Arthur Show
11:30 The Tycoon
12:00 Many Happy Returns
12:30 Mickey
1:00 The Young Lawyers
2:00 The Outsider
3:00 Coronet Blue
4:00 Lucas Tanner
5:00 The Alaskans
6:00 The Lieutenant
7:00 The Eleventh Hour
8:00 Sam Benedict
9:00 Cain's Hundred
10:00 The New Breed
11:00 Decoy
11:30 Tightrope
12:00 Governor and JJ
12:30 The Good Guys
1:00 To Rome with Love
1:30 The Smith Family
2:00 Temperatures Rising
2:30 The Paul Lynde Show
3:00 Run Buddy Run
3:30 Wendy and Me
4:00 The Bing Crosby Show
4:30 The Bill Dana Show
5:00 The Good Life
5:30 It's About Time


Sunday

6:00 Mr. Roberts
6:30 The Little People
7:00 The Debbie Reynolds Show
7:30 Double Life of Henry Phyfe
8:00 The Hero
8:30 No Time For Sergeants
9:00 The Cara Williams Show
9:30 Baileys of Balboa
10:00 Mona McClusky
10:30 Adam's Rib
11:00 Accidental Family
11:30 90 Bristol Court
1:00 The Joey Bishop Show
1:30 The Tab Hunter Show
2:00 Pruitts of Southhampton
2:30 The Queen and I
3:00 Slattery's People
4:00 Trials of O'Brien
5:00 My Friend Tony
6:00 Man Who Never Was
6:30 Way Out
7:00 Bus Stop
8:00 The Islanders
9:00 The Reporter
10:00 Saints and Sinners
11:00 Temple Houston
12:00 Playhouse 90
1:30 Studio One
2:30 Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre
3:30 Kraft Television Playhouse
4:30 Four Star Playhouse
5:00 Fireside Theatre
5:30 G.E. Theatre

[littlebelle]

It would be called "S-TV" (scripted TV, no reality... ever!). It would have all of the great classics. Sitcoms and dramas... a little sci-fi. A lot shows that Nick @ Nite used to have back in '99-'01.

[JT]

Over the years, I've come up with several. It's nearly impossible for me to just make a lineup of shows I like, or shows I think ought to be on TV. There's just wayyy too many and not enough time in the day. I like to make lineups based on things like era, genre, production, etc. I'll post some of the Monday-Friday lineups from a couple of the little networks I've created whenever I've had too much time on my hands...

Spelling TV - All Aaron Spelling, all the time. Everything from his classic crime dramas, to his long-running serials, his family dramas, and the star-studded fare...everything!
Monday-Friday
6am: "The Love Boat" (last night's episode)
7am: "Charlie's Angels" (last night's episode)
8am: "Dynasty" (last night's episode)
9am: "Melrose Place" (last night's episode)
10am: "The Mod Squad"
11am: "Starsky & Hutch"
12pm: "Hart to Hart"
1pm: "Sunset Beach"
2pm: "Beverly Hills 90210"
3pm: "Family"
4pm: "Fantasy Island"
5pm: "Hotel"
6pm: "The Love Boat"
7pm: "Charlie's Angels"
8pm: "Dynasty"
9pm: "Melrose Place"
10pm: "The Mod Squad" (today's episode)
11pm: "Starsky & Hutch" (today's episode)
12am: "Hart to Hart" (today's episode)
1am: "Sunset Beach" (today's episode)
2am: "Beverly Hills 90210" (today's episode)
3am: "Family" (today's episode)

60s Sitcoms - Just what the name says...all of the beloved, long-running classic sitcoms that define the 1960s. Weekends would include rotating blocks of many short-lived series (when one show ends its run, another begins).
Monday-Friday
6am: "Gilligan's Island" (repeat)
6:30: "I Dream of Jeannie" (repeat)
7am: "Bewitched" (repeat)
7:30: "The Beverly Hillbillies" (repeat)
8am: "The Munsters"
8:30: "The Addams Family"
9am: "McHale's Navy"
9:30: "Hogan's Heroes"
10am: "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."
10:30: "The Flying Nun"
11am: "That Girl"
11:30: "Julia"
12pm: "Hazel"
12:30: "The Patty Duke Show"
1pm: "The Farmer's Daughter"
1:30: "Family Affair"
2pm: "My Three Sons"
2:30: "My Three Sons"
3pm: "The Donna Reed Show"
3:30: "The Donna Reed Show"
4pm: "Petticoat Junction"
4:30: "Petticoat Junction"
5pm: "Green Acres"
5:30: "Green Acres"
6pm: "The Beverly Hillbillies"
6:30: "The Beverly Hillbillies"
7pm: "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
7:30: "The Lucy Show"
8pm: "Gilligan's Island"
8:30: "I Dream of Jeannie"
9pm: "Bewitched"
9:30: "Bewitched"
10pm: "The Andy Griffith Show"
10:30: "The Andy Griffith Show"
11pm: "The Munsters" (repeat)
11:30: "The Addams Family" (repeat)
12am: "McHale's Navy" (repeat)
12:30: "Hogan's Heroes" (repeat)
1am: "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." (repeat)
1:30: "The Flying Nun" (repeat)
2am: "That Girl" (repeat)
2:30: "Julia" (repeat)
3am: "Hazel" (repeat)
3:30: "The Patty Duke Show" (repeat)
4am: "The Farmer's Daughter" (repeat)
4:30: "Family Affair" (repeat)
5am: "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (repeat)
5:30: "The Lucy Show" (repeat)
4am: "Fantasy Island" (today's episode)
5am: "Hotel" (today's episode)

ABC SOAPnet - A permanent home for the over 40 years of daytime drama that's been broadcast through ABC. It would include same-day repeats of the current soaps, as well as regularly airing classic episodes of them. Cancelled soaps would dominate the daytime lineup.
Monday-Friday
6am: "Dark Shadows" (yesterday's 3pm episode)
6:30: "Dark Shadows" (yesterday's 3:30 episode)
7am: "All My Children" (yesterday's ABC episode)
8am: "One Life to Live" (yesterday's ABC episode)
9am: "General Hospital" (yesterday's ABC episode)
10am: "Port Charles"
10:30: "Port Charles"
11am: "Ryan's Hope"
11:30: "Ryan's Hope"
12pm: "Loving"
12:30: "Loving"
1pm: "The City"
1:30: "The City"
2pm: "The Edge of Night" (beginning circa 1979)
2:30: "The Edge of Night" (beginning circa 1979)
3pm: "Dark Shadows"
3:30: "Dark Shadows"
4pm: "All My Children" (classic)
5pm: "One Life to Live" (classic)
6pm: "General Hospital" (classic)
7pm: "All My Children" (today's ABC episode)
8pm: "One Life to Live" (today's ABC episode)
9pm: "General Hospital" (today's ABC episode)
10pm: "All My Children" (classic - repeat)
11pm: "One Life to Live" (classic - repeat)
12am: "General Hospital" (classic - repeat)
1am: "Port Charles" (today's 10am episode)
1:30: "Port Charles" (today's 10:30 episode)
2am: "Ryan's Hope" (today's 11am episode)
2:30: "Ryan's Hope" (today's 11:30 episode)
3am: "Loving" (today's 12pm episode)
3:30: "Loving" (today's 12:30 episode)
4am: "The City" (today's 1pm episode)
4:30: "The City" (today's 1:30 episode)
5am: "The Edge of Night" (today's 2pm episode)
5:30: "The Edge of Night" (today's 2:30 episode)

^^^^^^^The thing with this one is that ABC has the rights to air all of that except for "Dark Shadows" and "The Edge of Night," so they could very much make this happen, but nope. It'd never see the light of day, and I don't understand why.