Why The Wait For The Ladies Room May Have Been A Little Longer Than Expected

Until yesterday I thought actually screening the show was the easy bit. After more than a year in production I was looking forward to finally being able to share it with the four people I’d managed to bribe to watch it. Alas, not so.

The first airing turned out to be 30 minutes of rolling black screen punctuated by several frantic calls to the station. It did run half an hour late, but by then I imagine everyone had given up watching. The good thing is the show is repeated multiple times through the month, so at 10 p.m. I settled down to watch again.

This time was a little more successful. The black screen of death only lasted 10 minutes.

Finally the reviews were in, but alas none of them seemed to refer to the actual show. “Help, I can’t see it.” “All I get is a black screen” “You’re going up against The Tonight Show, seriously?” were just some of the comments I received. (Ok, the last one was from me, but worth sharing I think).

The good news is there are still plenty of opportunities to tune in, which probably means a ton more problems.

If you don’t live in Naperville, and why wouldn’t you? you can watch the show streaming live on www.nctv17.com, the station’s website.

I’ve had countless (well six) calls about people having problems with this too. However, it’s really the same problem because if the show is late on TV, it’ll be late streaming too, so bear with it. Remember, the quality will not be as good as on your television set, and to be honest that won’t be as good as your other stations. (The show itself is actually the best thing on TV, I mean how it views of course).

Confused? Ladies Room director David Sapadin explains:

“Most folks have high definition TV's these days. But nothing looks worse on a Hi Def set than programming that is both analog instead of digital AND not shot in high definition. In Naperville on Comcast and WOW, only one channel fits that category....NCTV Channel 17.”

The reason for this is NCTV is a community station supported locally so there simply isn’t the money to bring it up to speed.

According to David the best way to watch is on a non Hi Def TV in which case I recommend you look in your attics and local antique stores right away!