![]() ĭiversified had put WPDE-TV up for sale on two occasions. In 2001, the station announced that it would move its Myrtle Beach employees and newscast production to a new facility in Conway which had previously housed bank offices. By 2000, more than half of its 70 employees were working in leased studio space there. Over the course of the 1990s, the station shifted more and more resources toward the Myrtle Beach area. In May 1985, Diversified Communications of Portland, Maine, acquired WPDE-TV for $14.5 million. WBTW, a CBS affiliate, had aired some ABC programs prior to the second station's launch. It was the first new commercial TV station in South Carolina since WCIV-TV started in Charleston in 1962 and the first for Florence since 1954. The station was projected to provide ABC programming to 750,000 people that were unserved by that network. It gave Florence its second commercial television station after WBTW (channel 13) and its only ABC network service. At the time, the area served by the station was so rural that it was able to apply for a loan from the Farmers Home Administration, which lent nearly $2 million for the construction of studios in the former Florence Civic Coliseum on Cashua Drive and a 2,000-foot (610 m) tower at Dillon. The FCC granted the application on March 15, 1979, issuing a construction permit to WPDE-TV on March 15, 1979. On June 24, 1978, Eastern Carolinas Broadcasting, a group of primarily local investors, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new television station on channel 15 in Florence. Both stations share studios on University Boulevard in Conway, while WPDE-TV's transmitter is located on Pee Dee Church Road in Floydale, South Carolina. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Dabl affiliate WWMB (channel 21, also licensed to Florence) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with owner Howard Stirk Holdings. I only remember how those titles made me feel - the overwhelming cynicism and the individual under the shadow of something much larger.WPDE-TV (channel 15) is a television station licensed to Florence, South Carolina, United States, serving the Pee Dee and Grand Strand regions of South Carolina and affiliated with ABC and The CW. I don’t remember a single thing about the main characters in Chinatown, The Long Goodbye, or The Conformist. But he doesn’t need depth, and he doesn’t deserve the story. Screenwriters Tim Woodall and Phil Drinkwater tie the narrative to a needless backstory for James, which exists, I guess, in an attempt to give him depth and make the whole story about him. Nothing is scarier or more shocking than what your imagination can conceive. As with most mysteries or conspiracies, the more you uncover, the less interesting they get. Where Broadcast Signal Intrusion slips up is with its increasing attention to the plot. For the first 30 minutes or so, the tone and the pieces in place give the movie every opportunity to be a bad dream that sticks to the side of your brain like a sock in a washing machine. It’s all very on-the-nose but in a knowing way. ![]() As the breadcrumbs lead him to a series of unsavory character actors, none quite as scene-stealing as a Sydney Greenstreet or a Sterling Hayden, the soundtrack is laden with lonesome horns and eerie piano flourishes. James’ world is a melancholic and deterministic series of false choices. What director Jacob Gentry gets mostly right is the tone. ![]() “… he pops in some old VHS tapes and stumbles across something unsettling…” As James grinds out an ordinary life, all it takes is this small taste of the unordinary to bring out his inner Alex Jones, cry conspiracy, and let slip the bloodhounds of war. Cut into the middle of the sitcom is footage of someone in an expressionless mask speaking modulated gibberish and vomiting black gunk. In his spare time, he pops in some old VHS tapes and stumbles across something unsettling: a sitcom from the early ’90s. James ( Harry Shum Jr.) is an antisocial A/V apartment-dweller who squeaks out a living by repairing cameras, TVs, and other consumer electronics. Broadcast Signal Intrusion is another foray into - let’s call it acid noir. Think of the recent Under the Silver Lake, Disappearance at Clifton Hill, or the memorable Long Day’s Journey Into Night. It’s light on tough-guy talk and femme fatales but heavy on amateur detectives and disorienting mysteries. SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! There’s a style of noir that’s been popping up lately in the indie rotation.
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