Some Canadian cable subscribers will soon be able to watch a restaurant chain's chickens spinning and roasting on rotisseries 24 hours a day.
The Swiss Chalet chain, which specializes in roasted chicken and ribs, announced on Facebook, in conjunction with Rogers Cable, viewers will be able to watch chickens roasting around the clock on Channel 208 beginning Monday.
How...restful. There are also channels dedicated to endless sunsets, the contents of an acquarium and a crackling fireplace. I like this. In fact, I think niche CCTV should be the future of cable television.
I like this. In fact, I think niche CCTV should be the future of cable television.
Have you ever looked at the channels in the 900+ region of Sky?
Posted by: Richard J | March 04, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Fashion TV? Shopping Channels?
Posted by: Guano | March 04, 2011 at 01:05 PM
Moderately attractive ladies with not much clothes on taking live (muted) calls from the huddled masses.
Posted by: Richard J | March 04, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Old news, surely. Isn't there some Apple app which allows you to tap into a seemingly infinite variety of streams from CCTV cameras around the world? I don't mean just the 'potentially-interesting-but-mainly-disappointing'-ones (e.g. those focused on zoo panda which spend most of their time hiding) but truly, truly dull ones in office foyers and at crossroads and the like.
Posted by: CharlieMcMenamin | March 04, 2011 at 02:19 PM
Surely given that it's to be on Canadian TV after all, it would actually be moderately more engaging than existing competitor channels?
Posted by: Myles | March 04, 2011 at 03:23 PM
Is there still a channel that shows nothing but views of Earth from space? Very watchable, especially when one's viewing is herbally enhanced. When I saw it, back in the 90s I think, much of the material was archival, but these days it could more or less be live stream from the ISS.
Posted by: Ken MacLeod | March 05, 2011 at 04:26 PM
herbally enhanced
Depends on the precise chemical properties of that enhancement.
Posted by: Myles | March 05, 2011 at 06:05 PM
Indeed it does. Nutmeg on hot chocolate is a real downer.
Posted by: Ken MacLeod | March 06, 2011 at 08:42 PM
If you put as much nutmeg in your hot chocolate as I do in my Starbucks, you wouldn't be much enhanced at all. You need to consume quantities of that stuff.
Posted by: Myles | March 06, 2011 at 09:31 PM