"When television is bad, nothing is worse...Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."
- FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow, 1961
In this era of streaming apps, do you miss the "vast wasteland" of television? Television Wasteland is here to warm your heart and numb your brain with dozens of channels of public domain weirdness, courtesy of the Internet Archive. Retro classroom films ("Duck and Cover"), classic horror ("Night of the Living Dead"), industrial safety films ("Shake Hands With Danger"), and so much more.
But wait! Theres more. Do you want to just have something on in the background and still listen to music? Launch the app with music playing and with a single tap, the audio will mute and your music will resume.
How much would you expect to pay for this? $1000? $19.99? Television Wasteland is absolutely free. All presented without any ads or in-app purchases.
Relive the old days of flipping through channels, looking for something to watch. This aint TV. Its a Television Wasteland.
Note : The videos on Television Wasteland are hosted by the Internet Archive, “a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form”. If you believe any of the videos on this app are not in the public domain, please go to the following site to request a takedown :
https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org/