If YOU could start your very own TV channel IN THE 1980's what programs would it have

You have sufficient setup capital, including the rich guy helicopter to land in the studio just like some personalities in rte back in the day.

Take channel 4 as a template.

What sport would you go after? What current affairs & personalities?

Would it have a lot of Spitting Image? Would you buy a some cheap cartoons made in the Eastern Bloc? How many rerun series would you buy?

I would not have many personalities as this would be very expensive.

I would put in Kojak. as a copshow.

Fire away

frozenfrozen

id play reeling in the years all day but with episodes from 90's to to 2020

Golfwidow

Mork and Mindy, The Mannions of America, Top of the Pops, Brideshead Revisited, Challenge Anneka, Blankety Blank ....

Hangdogroad

Some nudey arthouse films from Sweden in the post watershed slot.

.anon.

What an oddly specific question.

This, on a loop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka02HwxQdVA

Riddle101

Cheers and Taxi for comedy.
Miami Vice for Crime.
The Twilight Zone for Sci-Fi.
Moonlighting

Purple Mountain

Riddle101 wrote: »

Cheers and Taxi for comedy.
Miami Vice for Crime.
The Twilight Zone for Sci-Fi.
Moonlighting

Moonlighting was for romance too!

I'd definitely ban Glenroe though.

Montage of Feck

The a team, knightrider, airwolf, dukes of hazard, miami vice and bosco.

Hamsterchops

Blankety Blank
Cheers
Dallas
Moonlighting
News at Ten
The Professionals
Top of The Pops
The Good Life
The White Room
The A Team
Parkinson
Star Trek

Church on Tuesday

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Some nudey arthouse films from Sweden in the post watershed slot.

Like TG4 back in the day.

I forgot to state that BOSCO would be regarded in the same vein as an Eastern Bloc puppet : in fact there was one from Russia and he was quite good actually:he even appeared from space with some cosmonauts.

Fcuk BOSCO.

buried

All the likes of this all day and night

gigantic09

The tonight show with Johnny Carson.

magick

The Oireachtas channel.
All Oireachtas, all the time!

I'm so dissappointed in all of you and me

Delia Smith cookery

Plumbthedepths

Debbie does Dallas and Behind the Green door on a loop.

Parabellum9

DJ Kat for covering all of the kids programming
Unsolved Mysteries for crime (the Robert Stack original with its creepy ass theme music)
Quantum Leap/MacGyver for Saturday afternoons
Tales From The Crypt/Freddys Nightmares as after midnight filler

Edit: And Glenroe for ringing the death bell of the weekend on a Sunday night

Gregor Samsa

06:00 Good Morning Prisoners
10:00 Dahmer’s Friends For Dinner
11.00 Cold, Bleak Greys Of The Burren
12:00 Black Mass Live From The Temple Of Set
13:30 One Man And His Log
14:00 Touched By A Priest
15:00 Silence
17:00 Family Misfortunes
18:00 The Enema
18:01 News, Executions and Weather
19:00 Countryphile
19:30 Into The Hole
20:00 Movienight: Inside Your Mother
22:00 Time In Reverse
21:00 The Chicken Plucking Show
22:00 The Late Late Sex Toy Show
23:25 5 Minutes Of The Brown Note
23:30 Close

Sgt Hartman

I would have a dour retro Irish channel.

Morning schedule would be Anything Goes, Pajo's Junkbox, Wanderley Wagon and Fortycoats and Co followed by Angelus and Mass from selected churches throughout the country.

Afternoon would be The Sullivans followed by Bosco, Live at 3 with Derek Davis and a Government announcement by Charlie Haughey. Garda Patrol, The Angelus and news would follow.

Evenings would be Tolka Row, The Riordans, Bracken and Glenroe followed by The News, Today Tonight and A Prayer at Bedtime before The National Anthem and shutdown until 9am the next morning.

Cluedo Monopoly

Sledge Hammer!

Greatest American Hero.

Magnum PI

Cluedo Monopoly

Cluedo Monopoly

Riddle101

For British Shows, I would also include The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents..., Not the Nine O'Clock News, and Blackadder

I'd definitely have professional wrestling.

Stevieluvsye

Sledgehammer a great shout!

Cheers
Murder she wrote
Colombo
Bullseye
Heighway to heaven
Knots landing
Tales from crypt
Quantum leap
Little house on the prairie
National lampoon every Saturday night just to see Christy Brinkley in her nip

Many more classics I can’t think of