Hearld Tribune
This was inevitable

Billy Cox
Published Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 9:56 a.m.

Under normal circumstances, you don’t expect government bureaucracy to kick-start a New Age renaissance. But given the revelations about how we’ve been played, spun, insulted and debased by the endless fantasies roiling out of this administration, we need to reconsider.

Take last weekend’s New York Times report about the retired generals and admirals retained as “war on terror” analysts by network television. The news flash was about how all these guys were regurgitating talking points assigned to them by Donald Rumsfeld, which they proceeded to render as their own unique opinions.

A decade ago, this might have qualified as a scandal.

But after having badged a right-wing “male escort” as a White House correspondent for a bogus news agency, fed government-produced “news” clips to TV stations without revealing their sourcing, staged phony press conferences employing FEMA’s own PR flacks as reporters, paid a conservative columnist $240,000 to praise Education Department programs, surreptitiously subsidized nearly a dozen South Florida journalists to broadcast government propaganda for Radio Martí and TV Martí, planted shills with softball questions in spontaneous presidential town hall forums, not to mention WMD, Mission Accomplished, the Saddam-Bin Laden syndicate, etc., etc. — um, sorry, De Void just lost track of what the main verb here was supposed to be.

Anyhow, headlines about compromised generals no longer tax our credulity. As a Bush administration official told real-life journalist Ron Suskind in 2004:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality . . . we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.”

So here’s the reality of how things are sorting out these days at the center of America’s political universe. The Washington City Paper has just named a television station that isn’t even a year old as “Best Local TV Channel.” It’s Channel 49. It bills itself as the WUFO TV Network.

From the article: “It’s worth messing with the rabbit ears for a bit to take the occasional trip through the looking glass and realize just how many people are fixated on ancient cultures, government cover-ups and (alien) probing.”

So check it out at http://www.tv49dc.com/ and remember: On any given day, residents of the nation’s capital are tuning into programming about alien abductions, Tesla weapons, the approaching 2012 Earth changes, prehistoric technologies, and the gods from planet Nibiru who visited Earth 450,000 years ago.

Can you feel it? The ball’s in the air, man, and reality is up for grabs in the Beltway. The Iraqi insurgents are “dead-enders” in their final throes, global warming is a Marxist hoax, “We do not torture,” plutonium from Niger, heckuva job, Brownie . . .

WUFO TV is the place where District of Columbia audiences are going for the unofficial version.

NOTE FROM WUFO.TV - WE THANK BILLY FOR HIS INSIGHTFUL ARTICLE AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO OUR BEST!! TELL THE MEN IN BLACK TO GO CHASE THE REPTOIDS INSTEAD!

The WUFO.TV Network, the new 24/7 broadcast television network airing on old-school analog TV station WWTD-LP, channel 49, in the Washington, DC market, was voted the Best Local TV Channel in Washington, DC by the Washington City Paper, the local alternative press outlet.

Airing a full schedule of cutting edge Alternative Knowledge programming, from the UFO/ET disclosure conversation, to the latest crop circle research, ancient mysteries, techno-shamanism, alternative history, Gnostic teachings, new science, spirit, wellness, a lot of sci-fi, latest user-generated hits, and with their own EBE-VJ spinning the hottest music videos, the WUFO.TV has now found an audience in the Nation's capital.

A long list of leading content providers, such as Colin Andrews, Richard C. Hoagland, John Anthony West, Doug Kenyon & Atlantis Rising Magazine, Randy Harrigan and theUFOStore.com, Lloyd Pye, the X Conference, the International UFO Congress, the Chet Snow Signs of Destiny Conference, the Wood's Crash Retrevial Conference, the Conscious Media Network, Project Camelot, Guy Malone, the Cosmic Connection, Jerry Pippin, Jose Escamilla and the Rods crew, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr, Lynne Kitel, D.M.Murdock, Reality Entertainment, Inner Traditions Press, James Fox and the Out of the Blue Team, Dennis Balthaser, Safe Space News Agency and Fastwalkers, the Horizon Project and Ed Dames, Red Ice Creations, Brandon Scott of Alien Secrets have all put their content into the schedule. From Sitchin, Hancock, Dolan, Cruddenton, Talbot, Bielek, Morton, Redfern, Strieber, Leir, Jacobs, Dean, Henry, Sparks, Simms, Harris and dozens more, the programming keeps on airing.

Founder and Network General Manager Mike Gravino remarks, "It feels good to see that the last 4,000 hours of programming is creating such positive vibes in the land of conventional thought! Stay tuned for our new global web streaming channel!"

The Network gladly accepts content for airing on a barter basis for testing and is soon starting to pay the content community real broadcast royalities.

Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 at 10:18 a.m.
A new challenge from WUFO TV
By BILLY COX
billy.cox@heraldtribune.com

Michael Gravino is the co-owner of a low-power TV station, one of those little under-the-radar things that used to carry Spanish-language fare before the changeover in November. It’s called WWTD-LP, tv49.

To help buck it up, the site's "content provider," UFO TV, sells DVDs online from what Gravino calls the “alternative science” genre. Judging from the titles, there’s something for everybody: “Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals,” “Project Montauk: The Time Travel Chronicles,” “Operation Mindazzle: Military Remote Viewing Psychic Training Course” “Underground Bases: Reptilians and the Battle for Humanity” or “Frankenstein Science: Animal Transgenics.”

Gravino can’t vouch for all of it; after all, he’s got anywhere from 700 to 800 hours of programming in his stash. And, as he says from his home outside New Haven, Conn., “I’ve got bills to pay.”

The amazing thing is, new material — new DVDs, new productions, videos from past UFO conferences — keeps being cranked out all the time. Which probably isn’t surprising, given the deteriorating credibility of government science policies over the last seven years. But it works out great for Gravino because it’s all grist for his 24/7 programming schedule. And the headlines turn around so quickly. The Stephenville Incident, which unfolded over Texas on Jan. 8, is already a three-hour $14.95 documentary.

Gravino calls his gig the WUFO TV Network, but what makes it interesting is where it’s located — in the District of Columbia metro area, right smack dab in the heart of the political universe. Gravino says more than 1.25 million viewers can receive the signal.

Moreover, WUFO’s Web site is dispensing the presidential contenders’ phone numbers and urging readers to bombard their offices with requests to promise UFO disclosure if elected. Yesterday, it rolled continuous-loop footage of John Podesta, chief of staff for former President Clinton, making formal remarks calling for an end to UFO secrecy.

“I’d definitely like to hear how the candidates feel about this issue, particularly Hillary Clinton,” says Gravino, whose offers of free airtime to those willing to share their views have drawn no response. “She’s got some questions she needs to answer about her meetings with" Laurance Rockefeller.

But without a news budget, WUFO TV won’t be doing much follow-up. Which is OK by Gravino for now. “We’re not going to look like the major networks,” Gravino says. “It’s going to have a rough, YouTube feel to it. I almost run it like a jukebox.”

Who knows? Maybe if he turns a profit, WUFO TV will get a news staff. In the meantime, anything goes. Anything but the Sept. 11 conspiracy stuff. Willie Nelson joined the celebrity chorus this week (Ed Asner, Rosie O'Donnell, Charlie Sheen, James Brolin, David Lynch, etc.) in questioning the official version of those horrific events, but Gravino doesn’t plan to bite that apple.

“I was in Washington on 9/11,” Gravino says. “It’s not something I feel comfortable about.”

On 11/1/07 the new WUFO TV Network launched on tv49, an FCC-licensed broadcast television station in the Washington, DC metro-market. Featuring a 24/7 broadcast schedule of alternative knowledge programming, the WUFO TV Network aims to change the TV landscape by offering an unfiltered source of content direct from the researchers, authors, and producers.

The first affiliate of the Network is a real TV station in DC, reaching some 3.5 million people in DC/MD/VA with its analog broadcast signal. Co-located at the NBC tower and complex in DC, the WUFO TV Network has been broadcasting the 2007 X Conference, the 2007 International UFO Congress, the 2006 Signs of Destiny Conference, and dozens of other shows.

In the first week of broadcasts such alternative knowledge illuminaries as Zacharia Sitchin, Ed Dames, Linda Moulton Howe, Jim Sparrs, Richard C. Hoagland, William Henry, Jamie Maussan, Colin Andrews, David Sereda, Richard Dolan, Steven Greer, Daniel Sheehan, Lloyd Pye, Paola Harris, Giorgio Tsoukalos, Dr. David Jacobs, Alfred Webre, Ron Simone, Guy Malone, Bert Janssen, and Francine Blake have been aired. Episodes of Out There TV from Phoenix, AZ have also been aired daily.

A daily news show is in the works which is being designed to include all aspects of the alternative knowledge field.

Major new programming arrangements are being prepared which will broadened the format to include live call-in shows. The Network is encouraging authors and producers to submit programming to be aired on the Network.

The Network is the brainchild of Mike Gravino, a new player in the alternative knowledge field. An award-winning film-maker, social entreprenuer, eBay tycoon, and former military black-project participant, Mike has been assisting the Star Child Project with its planned DNA testing. He is on the ownership team of tv49, which is being developed by Syncomm Media group under the management of Christopher Blair.