24-11-2021, 12:59 PM
er.azara post_id=54942 time= user_id=2263 Wrote:[mention]er.azara[/mention] That is very good to hear and I also want to take this opportunity to give you a very warm welcome to TV Live Forum! Bienvenue sur TV Live Forum!Medianext.MX post_id=54333 time= user_id=1455 Wrote:[mention]LukeHarrison[/mention] That mock TV station is known as TV Quatre. The project still is very much alive: although that particular website is now offline, they still maintain their YouTube channel and even update their social media.
It is a project led by a team of some members from the French equivalent of this space, Lenodal, which pioneered the first wave of web TV channels in France with WT4, later known as WBS TV. Some members of that team reunited and launched TVQ (alternate name) in 2017, as a satire web-TV channel mocking French TV in the 80s, imagining an alternate universe where Canal+ had not been licensed to broadcast, instead, the government supposedly giving it to a Italian real estate businessman, Giovanni del Paddington. The channel does not broadcast in a regular basis, and has aired three live broadcasts on YouTube which have been successful, all done with authentic 80s transmission materials, even with real life-like ad breaks! And that's what I know, sadly, but I hope somebody from that particular project is able to retell the story behind that project and WBS/WT4, because I might be wrong. I did really enjoy, however, the excellent projects done by these people!
In the meantime, here's a look at the really cheesy graphics done by motion and graphic designer Eric Azara:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFwY7G230A
Hello! I am very surprised to see that some people know about TV Quatre here! Thank you for your compliments, you have perfectly explained the history of the project. With our team, we are currently working on a future live broadcast on YouTube and we will upload our previous shows and a brand new website. We post a few previews on Twitter and Instagram from time to time (@tvquatre).