Why not a Shaving TV Channel

With all the cooking, car resto, wood working shows etc., why not a razer resto or shave show channel?

If this is in the wrong place, feel free to move it mods

 

Methinks we are to small of a group of people.

 

+1

 

The Shave Boss
The Yankee Shave Den
Shave News Network
Leave it to Shaver
The Shaving Bunch
I Have a (Shave) Secret

 

The Yankee Shave Den, lol, how about This Old Brush?

 

The original television serials were called soap operas because they were sponsored by laundry soap companies. Maybe we could get shaving soap companies to sponsor some shaving serials.
The Smooth and the Beautiful.
All my Razors.
The Young and the Hairless
Shaves of our Lives.
As the Derby Burns.

 

Why? $$$$$, that's why. LOL

 

I don't do cable TV anymore, I stream everything through a Roku box. There are hundreds of 'channels' on Roku, and it's really simple to make your own channel. I'm surprised nobody's put up a shaving channel. with the people who have dozens of youtube videos, that's content right there for them to create their own.

 

YouTube...

 

This is exactly what I thought of when I read the thread title. I am also a cable cutter / Roku user. And Roku is chock full of hyper-niche channels. I am talking literal one man operations. I would bet that a Roku shaving channel would get more viewers than some of the kookier conspiracy/ufo channels. Or some of the hobby related ones. Frankly, I think it is a good idea.

 

It's something that feels like a good idea but how much content would there be? I can imagine a show that features vintage gear & software, new gear & wetware, a "Barber of the Week," some timely interview -- I guess that sounds like a podcast, but there you go. But what would a whole channel look like? I guess the current equivalent is the various podcasts we have. Which makes me think: It would be cool to have a podcast clearinghouse website where you could one-stop-shop for links around the web.

Who remembers actual web portals, and who remembers Yahoo back in the olden days, when they defined the term "web portal"? How about a shaving web portal? We're talking about just aggregating links, not providing content or services. Here are your podcasts, here are news & reviews sites, here are vendors, here is a traditional wet-shaving corner, here are the forums, etc. Now who could do that?

 

I think maybe you have to be familiar with the Roku style 'channels' to really understand. Many (most?) of the very small channels are not burdened with a ton of content. We are talking a setup with something like maybe a dozen short videos archived, and perhaps one or two new clips per month rotating some of the older stuff out. You can archive as much as you wish, but from what I gather, for it to be free, you can not actually have all that much content. It is very, very similar to a youtube channel. But because you can browse and install only the channels which interest you, there is far less 'noise' to wade through. Some channels are duds. Some are comically bad... heck, many are duds and/or terrible. But they are awfully fun to wade through and sample.

 

Exactly. Anyone who has youtube videos and posts new ones regularly would have the content for an active channel on Roku. It's just a matter of them creating that channel.

 

Okay, you're right. I'm not familiar with Roku but I've now glanced at their webpage, I see what you mean, and I'm curious. Now it almost seems bizarre that it *hasn't* happened.
But now that I've thought about it, I want my web portal, too. I suppose it could be as simple as an individual person's shared bookmark page. I know several sites have links lists, but I'm wanting one to rule them all.

(Side note: And webrings. . .I'm having so many flashbacks. I just saw that Yahoo still has a directory page at dir.yahoo.com. . . aaaaand now I see that they're shuttering it at the end of this year. My youth is truly dead.)

The internet has helped so many niche hobbies to boom, I'm surprised that hobby-specific portals haven't boomed as well. Or, if they are around and I don't know about it, that wouldn't be surprising at all.

 

@JBSharp I'm guessing you still have a geocities homepage?

 

Well, not STILL. I may have had a page in the MotorCity section for our NASCAR fantasy league. My charts were very spiffy!

 

Actually, I would love a web portal with one stop shopping for shave-related interweb links. I was just thinking a couple days ago about how much I missed the old, pre-commercialized internet. You couldn't really buy much, but there was tons of super informative fandom out there. I was into so much weird specialized stuff... old regional professional wrestling promotions, Japanese tokusatsu tv shows, European plastic toy soldiers, obscure British rock bands... you name the niche interest, and some passionate, devoted fan had a crazy informative webpage about it. An eye searingly ugly page, but it was there. And that is the important thing. Now it's all giant retail operations and social networks. Not much of that old pioneer spirit on the interwebs anymore.

 

We do have shave show channels.

• http://www.youtube.com/user/mantic59
• https://www.youtube.com/user/geofatboy
• https://www.youtube.com/user/LynnSAbrams/videos
• https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulHFilms
• http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbZNav_HIPuMxn9n-jaayLQ
• http://www.youtube.com/user/Shaveology

and also

• https://www.youtube.com/user/TheShaveNook/videos

which makes me wonder why there isn't a

• https://www.youtube.com/user/TheShaveDen/videos

 

Martha Stewart's Shaving. Hmmm...no thanks. :whip:




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