It's time for football, which means several things:
1 - I'm going to be listening to a bunch of college football radio broadcasts because I find football way more entertaining to listen to than to watch.
2 - Appalachian Football Central is Back baby.
Episode one is out now: https://vod.newellijay.tv/videos/watch/f849b133-26f4-483e-bfd5-5c903bd86052
Connor is on the road this weekend not watching football, but he's really excited about this one.
He's also convinced that he's going to get more interaction for AFC on Instagram and Threads than he would on the fediverse.
I think he's probably wrong, and I'd like to convince him of that so do me a favor if you have the time and inclination:
Go follow @newellijaytelevision and/or boost this post: https://indiefilmmakers.social/@newellijaytelevision/115107866693500566 so that I can convince him to stop posting things to threads.
Tell him to come talk to me. I'll explain it to him. I'm the perfect person to explain to him..."why you think he's wrong". lolol
Brother
We've also got a new economics explainer video up. This one is about #enshittification and the mechanisms by which the current economy is collapsing.
Here's a trailer: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/bgRiLM9HuwTf8PZ9dSrJxp
and a short clip about bubbles: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/4J5bgYBtPYZthmNNMfBKmX
and the full episode: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/83McEYqJpCqn1UmWXqGWq2
As I've mentioned previously, we produce all of these shows for #netv / @newellijaytelevision / @video at the Ellijay Makerspace using 10+ year old cameras and open source software.
All our editing happens in @kdenlive Our videos are distributed through @peertube and our cable network is powered by #ffplayout and #ffmpeg.
We're a #floss shop, running a weird little experimental cable network out of the north GA mountains. We release between 1 and 10 new original videos per month, plus some syndicated stuff from folks like Working Class Music and Captain Isotope and Mr. Lobo.
I'm really proud of the work we do for New Ellijay Television, and I'm even more proud of the fact that we get to do the vast majority of it out here in the clear, with tools that I can feel good about using, without having to bend to a corporation or their AI bullshit.
I really want to keep doing it, and to do more of it. If we're going to do more of it, though, we're going to have to make it more sustainable.
Making it more sustainable means: 1) Expanding our viewer base, 2) Getting more direct sponsors, 3) Getting more advertisers, 4) Finding other revenue sources.
We live under capitalism, unfortunately, and we've got to make enough money to pay everyone if we're going to keep this wacky little experiment going up and to the right.
I usually discourage drive by replies from folks who don't have the full context of the work I'm doing, because dealing with a lot of "well have you tried X" posts when X was either 100% not applicable or the first thing we tried, but in this case I'm going to make an exception.
If you have any ideas on things we could do to increase the revenue of our tiny television station, tell me about them.
Right now, we have a patreon style subscription through our website, an actual patreon (for me personally, but all proceeds go to the network), paid advertising on our channel, and some merch.
Between all of that, we cover about 1 weeks operating expenses a month. We need to increase that significantly to break even, and even more significantly to expand the ways that I want to.
I love the toy work I'm doing right now, and it seems pretty likely that it's going to pay my bills (and the bills for several other members of our community) for a while.
People like what we're doing, and we're in demand. We're meeting with clients tonight. We're meeting with clients on Saturday. We're emailing clients every twenty minutes.
It's good! And it is absolutely part of the same #CommunityMedia movement that led me to create #NETV.
But it's only part of the #communityMedia thing. We need the media. I need to figure out a way to make the production and distribution of independent media financially viable in small batches.
Flat fair fee.
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