TELEVISION

The Jared Whitham Channel Network. Was a 24/7 broadcast of the Jared Whitham Channel on four analog UHF commercial channels. Broadcast to a large portion of Long Island and New York City for one entire year of 2008. New Yorkers were mesmerized by Whitham's endless video canon. This was during the switch from analog to digital so Whitham was the last artist to broadcast analog in New York City. Some of Whitham's loyal fans kept their analog tube tv's just to watch his programs. The million-dollar grant from Island Broadcast made Jared Whitham New York Famous to many New Yorkers. Including laundry mats across Brooklyn that couldn't afford to switch out their TVs with digital.
Most of the content was pre-taped episodes of the Jared Whitham show. A hand-made experimental comedy TV series. All episodes were taped in front of a live audience in a TV studio, club or art gallery. Almost every one of Whitham's live performances were taped and made into TV. Most of the original episodes were filmed in Florida in the early 2000s for an experimental video file-sharing site called Medicinefilms.com. The first YouTube before YouTube. Pioneering the first successful video file-sharing social network. Whitham became the first YouTube star before YouTube with launched.
The Jared Whitham show was experimental on every level. Both an innovation in technology and content. Returning to NYC in 2006, The Show resumed as live studio tapings in clubs and art spaces in NYC. Whitham’s show was being broadcast on Brooklyn Public Access, and Manhattan Public Access with his collaboration cross over Christmas Special with the father of transgressive film, Dame Darcy, Nick Zedd and Electra Elf. In 2007 Whitham occurred the UHF TV network broadcasted from the rooftop of the city bank building in Long Island City Queens.
Enjoy hours of Whitham’s experimental TV Show that to this day is still innovative and has influenced the internet video revolution and is a part of New York City television art star history.
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"This is this is fucked up!"
-Sarah Silverman

Written, Directed, and Produced by
Jared Whitham
Seethrough 2002.
" It's great kid, We think it's good enough for VH1!"
-Dan Harmon
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