Dyke TV

[darkoshi]

There was a show called "Dyke TV", which I used to watch sometimes on FreeSpeechTV on Dish Network, way back. Today I was reminded of the show when I came across an old donation receipt from them. Wondering if the show was still around (maybe on the internet), I did a search, but a lot of the results were related to Dick Van Dyke.

So I modified my query... "Dyke TV -dick".

::amused::

According to this page, Dyke TV was first broadcast in 1993, and was on the air for at least 13 years.

Dyke TV aired for the first time in 1993 on a lone public access cable (PAC) channel in Manhattan. Today, the show is broadcast on PAC stations and the independent satellite channel, Free Speech TV, in 78 cities and 23 states across the US, which have a combined subscriber base of 4 million viewers. Episodes feature current news and events, political commentary, arts, health, sports and other issues of interest to lesbians in the US and beyond. We use this national platform to support balanced, LGBT-specific programming from diverse rural, urban, racial, economic, artistic and political perspectives.

The last time the original www.dyketv.org website was archived by the Internet Archive, was on Sep. 26, 2004.

This myspace page indicates that they shut down "5 years ago":

After thirteen years of groundbreaking, award-winning videos by, for, and about
queer women, Dyke TV has shut its doors, ended production, and dissolved its
non-profit corporation.

Dyke TV's free and low-cost video production and editing classes spurred the
careers of many of our community's most innovative video and film artists. The
self-produced videos in Dyke TV's entertainment/news magazine television show
opened eyes and minds, and paved the way for queer shows like The L Word and
queer channels like Logo and here!.

Funding and organizational support issues have unfortunately forced DTV to shut
down, just after receiving a federal trademark for its name.

Dyke TV would like to thank the volunteers, funders, students, staff, board
members, and video subjects who made Dyke TV the amazing show and organization
that it was for so many years.

Good luck to all the video and film artists out there who continue to change the
world with their visions, creating "Television to Incite, Subvert, Provoke, and
Organize!"

The Dyke TV team