User:Victor Ives

New TV Network Shows Movies Commercial Free

White Springs TV WhiteSprings Networkis a Television Network that broadcasts via satellite directly to viewer’s homes and to independent TV stations and cable systems across America. It is video streamed world-wide on the Internet. The format is an eclectic mix of movies presented without commercial interruption. White Springs TV does run commercials, but they air between movies and are clustered among cartoons, short subjects, two-reel comedies and vintage TV clips. The station’s satellite signal covers all of Canada, USA, Mexico and part of Central America. Almost anyone in those countries can get the signal with a small dish and KU Band digital receiver. The dish and receivers cost about $150 to buy outright. Unlike Dish Network or Direct TV, there is no monthly fee charged for programming.

Movie Mix Ranges from Classics to Made-For-Television Flicks

"About one out of five films we run is a Made-For-TV Movie, mostly from the 70's, 80's and early 90’ “ says Victor Ives veteran broadcaster who started the network. "An ABC Movie of the week is a lot more enjoyable when it isn't interrupted every ten minutes by commercials for abdominal machines, psychic readers or patent medicines", Ives said. Ives continued, “So far, the biggest viewer response is from classic and not so classic movies from the early days of Hollywood, including B pictures from the so called "Poverty Row" studios. Another big hit is theatrical release cartoons and musical shorts called ‘Soundies’, filmed in the 40’s with such music greats as Stan Kenton, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, The Mill Brothers, Spike Jones and Dorothy Dandridge. Soundies info

FTA Viewers Watch Direct from space

FTA (Free To Air) viewers have over 80 space channels to watch free. There are a number of ethnic and religious stations, but PBS (Public Broadcasting), some sports fracnhises and a couple of the alphabet networks have become Free To Air providers. It is anticipated by industry observers that as viewing options expand there will be rapid growth of watchers switching to the free channels rather than pay monthly fees.

TV Station Affiliates across America and Coming Soon to Canada

In the Fall of 2006 the White Springs TV began contracting with TV stations and cable systems to carry the programming, becoming the first over-the-air television network to offer feature length movies without commercial interruption as a regular format. White Springs now has outlets from San Diego and the San Fernando Valley of California to Connecticut and Presque Isle, Maine. The channel is also seen in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia, Orlando & Pensacola Florida, Wichita, Kansas,  towns in Alabama, Washington State, South Carolina, Oregon, Nevada and a cable system as far away as Guatamela. Negotiations are underway for the network to expand to Canada, where White Springs already distributes talk radio programming to high power Canadian stations.

Internet Viewers Watch World-Wide

Besides those watching their programming direct from space and from over-the-air TV stations and cable systems, viewer world-wide are watching the channel via Internet video streaming anywhere there is high speed Internet. Internet viewer reports have come from London, England, Glasgow, Scotland, Perth, Australia and Abu Dhabi, Dubai.

Why White Springs TV?

The name White Springs TV comes from the name of a small town on the Suawanee River in Florida. That's where Ives and his partners purchased a Satellite Uplink facility that beams the programming 22,500 miles into space … then back to earth. White Springs Media, the parent company, also distributes TalkStar Radio Network TalkStar Networkthat provides radio programming to individual users via radio stations in the US and Canada and a growing number of FTA (Free To Air) Radio listeners via satellite and internet listeners world wide via audio streaming.

For information call Master Control at 386 397 4155 or info@whitesprings.TV