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25 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

Reading more about it, it sounds like the FAST channel will only be on their service.  Kind of counter intuitive.  FAST channels should be on Pluto, etc as free advertising of your product. 

Free advertising for real.  F1, FIFA, even TNA and WWE Biography have FAST Channels on Samsung TV Plus, along with BBC News and everything inbetween.  Tony should push to get that everywhere.  Just show old AEW Dark episodes and have Schiavone do PPV Control Centers or something. 

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Free Advertising Supported Television

7 minutes ago, twiztor said:

pardon my ignorance, but what is a FAST channel?

It's what everyone was supposedly trying to get away from when they started flocking to Streamers.

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5 minutes ago, Bustronaut said:

Free Advertising Supported Television

It's what everyone was supposedly trying to get away from when they started flocking to Streamers.

not to be confused with Slow TV, a term used for a channel that broadcasts a train going across Norway

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Slow television, or slow TV (Norwegian: sakte-TV), is a genre of "marathon" television coverage of an ordinary event in its complete length. Its name is derived both from the long endurance of the broadcast as well as from the natural slow pace of the television programme's progress. It was popularised in the 2000s by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), beginning with the broadcast of a seven-hour train journey in 2009

 

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4 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

not to be confused with Slow TV, a term used for a channel that broadcasts a train going across Norway

 

Man oh man, my daughter and I used to love watching that when she was really young.  Now you got me all misty eyed and nostalgic for first person train TV.

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18 minutes ago, twiztor said:

pardon my ignorance, but what is a FAST channel?

 

11 minutes ago, Bustronaut said:

Free Advertising Supported Television

It's what everyone was supposedly trying to get away from when they started flocking to Streamers.

Yeah, Pluto, Tubi, things like that.

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1 hour ago, Cobra Commander said:

not to be confused with Slow TV, a term used for a channel that broadcasts a train going across Norway

i thought you were making a joke, but now i can't believe this is a real thing. 

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YouTube stormchasers livestreaming their drives in good weather towards a stormy area are basically American slow TV

there's also the people who have cameras at various rail locations to live stream the occasions that trains pass by... and the volcano eruption streams

(the Tel Aviv/Beirut skyline streams are a little less tactful these days)

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2 hours ago, Technico Support said:

So from what I can tell, this is for live and PPV for viewers outside the US, essentially a Triller replacement, plus a FAST channel.

It says "outside US and Canada" (emphasis added). Any idea what the official Canadian option will be? Will stuff be on Crave?

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Sometimes bars here will put on something like the slow streams. One was just a train going through Eastern Europe. Another was a watering hole, I think in the Kalahari desert. That one is a lot of waiting for a few moments of excitement.

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The train one is awesome because they shot every route four times, once in each season, then spliced it together.  So you'd enter a tunnel in Winter and come out of it in Spring.  Yes I'm a dork fuck off 😂

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5 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

there's also the people who have cameras at various rail locations to live stream the occasions that trains pass by... and the volcano eruption streams

There are a set of train racks that pass thru the neighboring village, where trains go by every 20mins. They put up a railcam about a year ago, and it made the national news twice already - once when a car got stuck on the tracks in a snowstorm, and once when a speeding driver went airborne.  

 

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16 hours ago, tbarrie said:

It says "outside US and Canada" (emphasis added). Any idea what the official Canadian option will be? Will stuff be on Crave?

US and Indian fans only get the FAST channel and nothing else.

Apparently Canada can buy PPVs on there for $54CAD but that's it.

Mexico is entirely locked out.

Europe, Japan, the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Philippines, Pakistan and Brazil all get the full package.

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Just traveled to the UK, and for anyone that cares:

The PPV archive isn't complete, only has Revolution 2020-2025 and Dynasty 2024-2025.

The TV archive isn't complete, only has 2025-2026.

So, for those of us in the US at least, it's really only worth it for the PPV discount (and I guess if you're a fan of ROH's weekly show/when they decide to hold their sporadic PPVs). Especially if you already sub to HBO Max, where the archives are just about complete.

Also the whole thing about the PPVs being in your library for 90 days, I imagine that's probably when they get added to the MyAEW PPV archive. I believe it works the same way on HBO Max.

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If we already bought the PPVs on Fite/Triller, then they'll stay in our Fite archives as long as Triller exists.

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On 3/10/2026 at 2:32 AM, Technico Support said:

The train one is awesome because they shot every route four times, once in each season, then spliced it together.  So you'd enter a tunnel in Winter and come out of it in Spring.  Yes I'm a dork fuck off 😂

That's one long-ass tunnel! But in Norway that's where the trolls live, so that would make sense. 

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The NYC subway ride-alongs are a bunch of fun too, especially once they go elevated.

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On 3/9/2026 at 6:51 PM, JLowe said:

Sometimes bars here will put on something like the slow streams. One was just a train going through Eastern Europe. Another was a watering hole, I think in the Kalahari desert. That one is a lot of waiting for a few moments of excitement.

My local bar just keeps one of the TVs on the Baywatch Roku channel. I've watched enough episodes in parts that I've seen repeats now.

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55 minutes ago, The Natural said:

When I see Hangman Adam Page, he reminds me of an in shape Keith Lemon/Casey Webb. Is that just me?

Casey Webb, the second host of Man vs. Food?

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