PROGRAM 001
Velvet Frequency
Surreal scenes, dream logic, strange monologues, and fragments from a lost film.
Flagship transmission
Channel 13.13 // Velvet Observatory Broadcast
Broadcasting from somewhere just beyond midnight.
Surreal films, imagined programs, dream commercials, station idents, and other signals recovered from the hours that do not exist.
Now transmitting: Velvet Frequency 001
Signal strength: 78%
Moon relay: connected
Glitter static: moderate
All times Eastern
Now transmitting: Velvet Frequency 001
Signal strength: 78%
Moon relay: connected
Glitter static: moderate
All times Eastern
Now Transmitting
The latest signal
The featured transmission window will eventually hold your newest film, episode, ident, or looping visual broadcast.
Live from Channel 13.13
Velvet Frequency 001
A dream transmission from the Velvet Observatory
Signal integrity
Original Programming
Tonight on Nocturne
The first six programs form the opening constellation of the network.
PROGRAM 002
Lost Broadcasts
Recovered tapes, damaged local programming, and transmissions from places that vanished.
Archive anomaly
PROGRAM 003
The Moon Mall Hour
Late-night commerce, impossible stores, arcade interludes, and announcements from 1987.
Retail dreamscape
PROGRAM 004
Neon Séance
Messages arrive through telephones, television static, answering machines, and audience calls.
Public access occult
PROGRAM 005
Static Devotions
Slow ceremonial images, atmospheric sound, and quiet messages for the beautifully awake.
Meditative signal
PROGRAM 006
Cinema from the Observatory
Longer experimental films projected from somewhere high above the ordinary world.
Feature presentation
Channel Guide
Late-night schedule
A sample opening-night schedule. Replace these rows whenever new programming arrives.
Tonight // Channel 13.13
All times Eastern
11:30 PM
Observatory Weather
Interlude
12:00 AM
Velvet Frequency
Original transmission
12:30 AM
Midnight Commercial Break
Advertisements
1:00 AM
Lost Broadcasts
Recovered tape
1:30 AM
Neon Séance
Call-in program
2:00 AM
Static Devotions
Meditative signal
2:30 AM
End of Transmission
Station sign-off
About the Channel
Television for the hours that do not exist.
Nocturne Television is an independent late-night broadcast experiment transmitting surreal films, imagined programs, visual music, dream commercials, station idents, and other strange signals from the Velvet Observatory.
Some programs are beautiful. Some are unsettling. Some may have been waiting for you specifically.
Channel 13.13 // The signal has found you // Please remain near your television