Hey !!! Most of you guys are right in line with our thinking, This is Wayne-o / Edward w.Raisley founding member of freeDBS.org God bless all of you !!!
Wayne-O,
I also want to say welcome to you and thanks so much for what you all are doing with FreeDBS.
If I may simply get my two cents in, just so that I feel like I have contributed something, regardless of whether you can secure such programming....
The types of channels I would personally like to see are:
WESTERNS (movies and series like Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Maverick, etc.)
SCI-FI (movies and series like the original Star Trek, Twilight Zone, etc.)
SIT COMs (older series like Gilligan's Island, Mr. Ed, Car 54, The Honeymooners and even newer programs like WKRP, too)
MYSTERIES (Columbo, McMillan and Wife, Quincy, McCloud, etc.)
EDUCATION (sciences: Geography, geology, history, chemistry, electronics, etc.)
CARTOONS (older cartoons from the pre-80's eras, where cartoons were actually fun and simple, not soap operas in themselves. Cartoons such as Bugs Bunny, Huckleberry Hound, Pixie, Mixie and Jinx, Yogi Bear, the Jetsons and the kin or ilk of these).
I don't mean to tell you what programming you should have, but I am giving you my one voice from many regarding what types of programming we (or at least I) would really love to see.
I would personally go
more than out of my way to support just these six channel types.
I did send an email to Mr. Napier regarding programming. I am sure that he is inundated with emails, so I will let you retrieve my thoughts from this site and take them back to the office from here instead. This way you may filter the information better and free up your in-boxes for more official information and communications.
You can count that for every one of ME, there are at least a dozen or two dozen more people that would set up equipment to view your channels within the first year. Many more would follow after then in an exponential curve.
Keep going and God Bless your organization.
Gordy (RADAR)