Trying to bring people together and organising a daily schedule with regular presenters to make Hive TV a reality - that's the difficult part.

This is true. At the height of Waves, with a ready-made community of about 4,000 people from which to draw show content and hosts, as well as an audience, we were able to at it's peak, get something like 15 or 16 one-hour shows running back to back as I recall for continuous programming.

That took time, to find the show hosts, ensure they would produce content on the required schedule continuously and consistently for their assigned time blocks from week to week, keep the technical operations running, typically having to train all the creators on how to make streaming content, how to use OBS (the industry standard for streaming and even commercial television programming) how to use the platform to keep the stream running during handoffs between time-sequenced shows without dropping the feed to viewers all over the world and more.

But honestly, I am not 100% sure trying to create a monolithic "channel" per se is the contemporary way to do this. I like the concept, but I fear the timing for such a "TechTV" style channel of that nature may have already passed, after all, that peaked on cable in 2004. (What IS Leo Leporte doing these days, anyway? I wonder?)

In the modern content consumer market, the idea is anyone can make video or streaming content, hence youtube, twitch, tiktok, FB reels etc have come to be the de-facto way to consume such media and television is the realm of propaganda, agenda driven drivel and mostly is the territory of "boomers". I'd actually predict "television" in the sense we all grew up with, is on the path of "newspapers" which the last two generations have barely ever even seen in the wild. Just as the internet killed newspapers and "video killed the radio star", self published video and livestreams are also killing centralized or monolithic "television" as a concept entirely.

I do think it would be great if "Hive daily news" reporting and "Hive live event" coverage and so much more took place via the HiveStreams.Live platform, but it's entirely up to the entire community at large to take on how they wish to create it and consume it.

Some will make prerecorded video-on-demand VoD content for 3speak to present in a "youtube" like fashion, others like event creators or game streamers or daily news/talk/interview/etc type content may choose to live stream with a chat audience participating with them and interacting live as one might do on HiveStreams.Live.

If you were talking about making an "actual" television channel, as in, one that would run on broadcast television, or even on cable or satellite networks, well, that's ambitious, expensive and requires infra and quality I am not sure I've seen the means for here, or really even on twitch or youtube, till you get to "Mr Beast" scale budgets and team sizes (hundreds, even thousands of staff involved in each production they make)

But if anyone wanted to make "Hive TV" today, it's certainly possible right now, to live stream, record it, store it on 3Speak and publish about it on the chain. That was always the goal of HSL and 3Speak, currently, each in our own ways and with plans to be more tightly integrated as soon as I can make that technically happen, given I'm doing it alone with no money and little time outside my day job. 3Spk Network I believe is in beta, and from my side, I just need to work on the technical integration to send streams to their encoding nodes and onward to store on their network as it becomes a more production ready system.