{"id":11139,"date":"2019-07-12T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11139"},"modified":"2019-07-06T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:14:49","slug":"how-about-a-fair-a-thon-on-iptv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-about-a-fair-a-thon-on-iptv\/","title":{"rendered":"How about a Fair-a-thon on IPTV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAugust 14, 2014:<\/strong> Iowa Public Television hosts a governor debate at the Iowa State Fair. Please, no questions about the blogger’s fair priorities or the practicality of wearing suits in August.<\/em><\/p>\n

Being a Friend of Iowa Public Television doesn’t mean anything when it comes to programming \u2014 but boy do I have an idea.<\/p>\n

This year is the 50th anniversary of the launch of IPTV<\/a>. Based on this video montage of Iowa State Fair queens<\/a>, IPTV has covered the Iowa State Fair nearly as long and also done significant work to preserve its archives.\u00a0IPTV was an early experimenter\/adopter of HDTV and has multiple subchannels in a network that spans the state.<\/p>\n

How about taking the first week of August and using one of those subchannels to rebroadcast historic State Fair shows?<\/p>\n

Imagine a marathon that sets up broadcasts for anniversary years \u2014 say, 5\/10\/etc. before the current year. Or group them thematically \u2014 say, a collection of Bill Riley Talent Search finals or the queen contests. If someone remembers they were in a fair feature or list of winners, there would be the chance to rewatch instead of the clip being shown twice and then gone forever.<\/p>\n

This would be a great promotion of something near and dear to Iowans’ hearts \u2014 or, at least, to\u00a0nine in twenty Iowans’ hearts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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