Free Idea Friday : BrainiacTV
We have channels aplenty, don’t we? Spike to Oxygen (the most polar opposites I could think of) and still I think there’s room to squeeze at least one or two more down that length of cable and into your house along side the others you won’t watch.
At the gym this morning I was a captive audience while using a treadmill as ESPN did the rounds of showing me the latest sporting news I could care less about when something caught my eye — highlights from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Wait-a-cottin-pickin-minute, I thought, spelling is NOT a sport! It’s not in the traditional sense, I guess.
And that’s when my brain really kicked into gear(as did the treadmill I was using…could have been a coincidence). My brain suddenly filled with images of a new network catering to the more socially akward of us, the brainy ones, I mean.
In that instant, BraniacTV was born. 24 glorious hours of chess matches (current and historical), Mensa puzzles and, of course, the Scripps National Spelling Bee! There would be documentaries about the science of Star Trek, special live events that cover NASA rocket launches, all night computerized rants by Stephen Hawking, etc, etc, etc. And, the channel could be hosted by Danica McKellar.
So there it is. Your free idea on the last Friday of May. Enjoy.
P.S. – Yes, I know there was a show on G4 called “braniac”. All I have to say to that is “GEEEEEEEEEK!”
June 14th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Good idea, but your going to have a hard time getting the Scripps Spelling Bee rights from ESPN. This is their 15th year broadcasting the event. I know because I used to watch it during the day between their reruns of Strongest Man Competitions, Cheerleading, and breaking sports alerts. If only ESPN had broadcasting rights to the real U.S. sports instead of just highlights.