EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network)

branie

Anyone here ever see this catholic channel on the Sky package, or any other satellite package?

Umekichi

The penguin channel!:

Watched it once, turned off after 10 mins.
Now the only time it comes on is when I am doing it to wreck my younger sisters head(i.e Flick on EWTN and disappear with the remote, much hilarity ensues xD )

PopePalpatine

^ She reminds me of the nun with the eyepatch in "Black Lagoon".

robindch

branie wrote: »

Anyone here ever see this catholic channel [...]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: EWTN is the ultimate in car-crash television.

Turn it on and you descend into this weird, disconnected black-and-white, paranoid world where demons, angels, deities, fairies, far-right conspiracy theories and all the rest are all real. It makes Fox News look like a respectable news source. The music is terrible, the graphics are laughable, the programs are uniformly fifth-rate and laughably one-sided, the camera-work dreadful, the presenters are malevolent, sinister weirdos, the jokes so lame it's frequently quite difficult to identify them positively as jokes, irony does not exist and it is not a place for intellectuals and especially it is not a place for the kind of combustible idiots who consume this nonsense; the stories, ethics and morals bizarre and frequently verging on the psychotic, the disturbed or both, but if you're on the channel and you're delusional enough to say something that reinforces the station's encompassing fear and hatred, the presenter will invariably smile this wide, wide smile at you and nod their head once or twice, ever so deliberately. You watch ten minutes of this stuff and you've to come up for breath lest you suffocate.

Incidentally, EWTN is not subject to Vatican control. Following some early trouble, I think with JPII, the channel was hived off from the convent which started it and into an "independent trust" stuffed with sympathetic people -- where have we heard that before? -- and this group now control the output and implement what constitutes editorial control on real telly channels.

fisgon

robindch wrote: »

els, deities, fairies, far-right conspiracy theories and all the rest are all real. It makes Fox News look like a respectable news source. The music is terrible, the graphics are laughable, the programs are uniformly fifth-rate and laughably one-sided, the camera-work dreadful, the presenters are malevolent, sinister weirdos, the jokes so lame it's frequently quite difficult to identify them positively as jokes, irony does not exist and it is not a place for intellectuals and especially it is not a place for the kind of combustible idiots who consume this nonsense; the stories, ethics and morals bizarre and frequently verging on the psychotic,

Never seen it, but it sounds like the televisual version of Alive newspaper, or something that Youth Defence might rear their ugly head on. Is it in English? and if so what nationality are the presenters? I'm actually kind of fascinated now.

robindch

fisgon wrote: »

Is it in English?

Yep.

fisgon wrote: »

[...] what nationality are the presenters?

Mostly American. Though one or two Irish priests show up from time to time and Dana appears to have a show there too.

fisgon wrote: »

I'm actually kind of fascinated now.

As above, it's car-crash telly.

Last week, I flicked it on one morning and three elderly women were discussing the religious meaning of dusting while wearing a brown apron.

Gregor Samsa

EWTN is my mother-in-law's favourite channel. She doesn't have satellite at home, so she watches it when she comes to my house. Mostly when I'm not there luckily, but I have had the misfortune of turning on the TV to find it tuned to Channel 589. Dire stuff.

I don't think she watches the other ones - the whiff of Protestant off them wouldn't sit well with her.

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MagicMarker

Channel 815 on UPC.

"My Country, My Faith: Ireland" on at 8.30 tonight if anyone's so inclined.....

Hotblack Desiato

Never watched it. Did once watch the Islam Channel for about an hour a few years ago during Hajj though - the circumambulation of the Kaaba was fascinating to watch yes I had to look up on Wikipedia what it was called

robindch

Umekichi wrote: »

The penguin channel!

The Lord has retired The Penguin-In-Chief:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35909940

12Phase

That's narrowcasting for you though.

Anyone can have a telly channel.

Fleawuss

robindch wrote: »

I've said it before and I'll say it again: EWTN is the ultimate in car-crash television.

Turn it on and you descend into this weird, disconnected black-and-white, paranoid world where demons, angels, deities, fairies, far-right conspiracy theories and all the rest are all real. It makes Fox News look like a respectable news source. The music is terrible, the graphics are laughable, the programs are uniformly fifth-rate and laughably one-sided, the camera-work dreadful, the presenters are malevolent, sinister weirdos, the jokes so lame it's frequently quite difficult to identify them positively as jokes, irony does not exist and it is not a place for intellectuals and especially it is not a place for the kind of combustible idiots who consume this nonsense; the stories, ethics and morals bizarre and frequently verging on the psychotic, the disturbed or both, but if you're on the channel and you're delusional enough to say something that reinforces the station's encompassing fear and hatred, the presenter will invariably smile this wide, wide smile at you and nod their head once or twice, ever so deliberately. You watch ten minutes of this stuff and you've to come up for breath lest you suffocate.

Incidentally, EWTN is not subject to Vatican control. Following some early trouble, I think with JPII, the channel was hived off from the convent which started it and into an "independent trust" stuffed with sympathetic people -- where have we heard that before? -- and this group now control the output and implement what constitutes editorial control on real telly channels.

LOL. Very enjoyable. Now don't hold back next time!:pac:

Fleawuss

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Never watched it. Did once watch the Islam Channel for about an hour a few years ago during Hajj though - the circumambulation of the Kaaba was fascinating to watch yes I had to look up on Wikipedia what it was called

Sorta like the old Irish pattern days. Going round in circles like most religious shtuff!

brightspark

There was an installer some years ago who used to provide a free to air box programmed with EWTN and just a few other channels (CNN etc) when it was only available on Hotbird 19 I think.

However he used to lock the menu with a password for adding channels to prevent the adult channels being accessible.

Samaris

Ah well sure, it keeps them all in the one place.