Atheist TV

Oh no!  Don't look now but the atheists have a 24-hour TV channel called, remarkably, "Atheist TV."  

I am somewhat skeptical about the surviveability quotient of this channel, although it is long overdue and needed in the marketplace of ideas.  I think they will have to broaden their appeal beyond "just" atheism before they become successful.  Running old Public Access programs on atheism isn't going to cut it.   

No cable system has yet agreed to put Atheist TV on its channel lineup.  Shock!  The Christianistas are probably waiting with torches, pitchforks and loaded bazookas for the first cable system to add them to their channel lineup.  

You can stream it online by going here.

from Liberaland:

There are numerous television channels devoted to religion. So, why not an atheist channel? Peter Foster in The Telegraph:

…July 29 sees the launch of America’s first dedicated TV channel for non-believers. Atheist TV launches in New York and will broadcast 24 hours a day via Roku, the internet streaming service that allows people to watch internet-based channels on their TVs. Roku only has seven million subscribers, but anyone can watch it streamed online at www.atheists.tv

Free-thinkers, as atheists style themselves, remain almost bizarrely under-represented in American public life and discourse. There is not a single openly declared atheist among the 535 members of Congress, and it is conventional electoral wisdom that the President of the United States has to be a believer…

The channel is backed by American Atheists, the civil rights organisation founded in 1963 that takes a pretty confrontational approach to defending separation of church and state, including fighting a legal battle against the “9/11 miracle cross” being placed in the museum commemorating the September 11 attacks – which, as I’ve written before, is not a fight I would have personally picked.

The organisers tell me the channel will broadcast 24 hours, mostly with licenses and pre-recorded content, such as documentaries by the Richard Dawkins Foundation as well as a talk show titled “Atheist Viewpoint” and a call-in show, “Atheist Experience”

And a blurb from the atheists themselves. There is a lot of potential out there.

Atheist TV is a project of American Atheists, launched in 2014, to provide a counter-balance to the myriad of religious programming available on television. By partnering with content creators within the atheist community, AtheistTV is a place for atheists to find quality content that is not available elsewhere and goes where no one else has: into the living rooms of millions of Americans.

Featuring content from the Richard Dawkins Foundation (including interviews, speeches, and educational programming), the Atheist Community of Austin (producers of The Atheist Experience), American Atheists, the Reason Rally, and stand up comedians, AtheistTV brings hundreds of hours of programming to one place. As the channel matures, AtheistTV will begin producing and airing original content exclusive to AtheistTV. We are already working with Emmy-nominated producer Liz Bronstein, executive producer of Whale Wars, and Paul Provenza, executive producer of The Aristocrats and Showtime's The Green Room with Paul Provenza.

AtheistTV is available on Roku and streaming live on our site. 

For more information about Roku, including how to get one, visit their website or read more here.

If you are a content creator and would like to partner with AtheistTV, please contact us directly.