How can I start my own TV Channel?

Question

Please don't just say money because that is obvious.

Answer 1

I wish I knew how

Answer 2

After you've found enough people to say "good luck", you might consider approaching your cable company to inquire about leasing a blank channel. It's been done, but not by many, and even fewer successfully. Costs, of course are a big drawback to many with the same idea, and in some cases, the cable company may not allow you full control over what you televise. The advice of an attorney from step 1 on is highly recommmended.

You could contact the FCC about channel availability, but that is a gigantic can of worms being opened. Once you put the required public notice of your FCC application, competing applicants are certain to file their paperwork. The paperwork itself is almost never-ending. A guy I knew applied for a radio station, and the paperwork literally took up most of a small office. It's extremely detailed like you've never imagined before. I can only imagine what a TV application would be like.

And all that happens AFTER you have a field engineering study done, also required by the FCC, to see where your transmitting antenna would be located, and what the contour (overall area) of your signal would be.

Then there are the hearings, at the actual FCC building in DC. Unless you can afford to hire an expensive broadcast attorney conveniently located across the street from the FCC, you must go to Washington yourself and argue your case for the broadcast license. Then there's the hearings that will certainly take place for the competing applicants. The entire process could take years and years.

It took nearly 15 years of hearings, studies, lawsuits, and countersuits to put Channel 51, KUSI-TV in San Diego on the air.

I'm not saying that it can't be done, but it's very, very difficult.

Let me be the first to say good luck.

Answer 3

Maybe you could try researching some acting websites. Or directing. Or channels that are looking for a good pitch. If you have an idea, it might be best to get yourself organized, and then have the whole thing planned out so you can be ready for an offer. Good Luck : )

Answer 4

You have to know the movers and shakers in all USA industries.

You have to "bee seen," at the right restaurants, Opera, Theater, Gallery Openings, driving the "right," vehicle,
You have to have a Blackberry full of the top people in the USA.

You have to have Caroline Kennedy's number in your Blackberry, Roger Ailes phone number in your blackberry, you have to be able to walk into LeCirque in NYC and the waiter immediately recognizes you and takes you to "your table."

You have to be invited to South Hampton, in NYC every weekend in the summer for Tennis and Dinner.

You have to have a Yacht. You have to spend summers in France, Spain, Italy, and little known quaint villages in Europe.

You have to have the phone numbers of television stars in
your Blackberry.

You have to live in Trump Tower.
You have to have brunch with Robert DiNiro. You have to mingle, be there, be everywhere, to raise the money.
You said TV channel, but, I think you don't know the difference between a TV network and a "tv-channel."

Answer 5

Get a cardboard box. Put an antenna on it. Cut a hole in the front for a screen. Put your head in the bottom and look out. Voila! Instant personal TV Channel. I'm sure you'll delight your friends and family.

Don't forget to decorate it reallllly pretty. (-;

Answer 6

Money, but that is obvious.

Answer 7

Talk with abc or nbc and money

Answer 8

you have to know people...simple as that.