May 22, 2023 • 39 mins
Joey Canyon & Kelly Kantz
Take a walk with me down Fascination Street as I get to know Joey Canyon and Kelly Kantz. Joey is a singer songwriter who began his country music career in the mid 1970's. Having made a name for himself throughout the decades, he was even inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2021. Kelly is a serial television executive; having helped launch several networks including: RFDTV, BizTalk Radio, BizTv, and U2 America. In this episode, we get to know a little of the back story of these two pro's, and then we get into why they decided to team up to launch an all-new streaming service called Canyon Star TV. We discuss the need for a family friendly streaming service where you don't have to be nervous about what might appear on the screen in front of your small children. Joey & Kelly explain the styles of programming that are available on Canyon Star TV, such as: documentaries, classic films, classic TV, sports, cooking, and even music videos and concerts. Joey & Kelly also put out the call for MORE programming. So, if YOU have a project that you would like to be added to their growing list of programming; they explain just how to submit for consideration. Canyon TV is a FREE app that is available on every device with a screen. You can download the app on the Apple App Store, Google Play, Roku, Chrome, and more.
Take a walk with me down Fascination Street as I get to know Joey Canyon and Kelly Kantz. Joey is a singer songwriter who began his country music career in the mid 1970's. Having made a name for himself throughout the decades, he was even inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame in 2021. Kelly is a serial television executive; having helped launch several networks including: RFDTV, BizTalk Radio, BizTv, and U2 America. In this episode, we get to know a little of the back story of these two pro's, and then we get into why they decided to team up to launch an all-new streaming service called Canyon Star TV. We discuss the need for a family friendly streaming service where you don't have to be nervous about what might appear on the screen in front of your small children. Joey & Kelly explain the styles of programming that are available on Canyon Star TV, such as: documentaries, classic films, classic TV, sports, cooking, and even music videos and concerts. Joey & Kelly also put out the call for MORE programming. So, if YOU have a project that you would like to be added to their growing list of programming; they explain just how to submit for consideration. Canyon TV is a FREE app that is available on every device with a screen. You can download the app on the Apple App Store, Google Play, Roku, Chrome, and more.
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Hi, this is Richard can keepFriedman and you are listening to the podcast
Fascination Street. Yeah, yes,that app was giving this tone of your
visual down the most insurest street inthe world with my voice Dan, Fascination
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Street already. No, let's getit when you wat Welcome Back Street Walkers.
This episode is with Joey Canyon andKelly Cants. They are the CEO
and president respectively, and co foundersof the new streaming service called Canyon Star
TV. In this episode, weget a little bit of a background on
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both Joey and Kelly and kind ofwhat brought them together and why they created
this new family friendly streaming channel.We talk a little bit about some of
their programming where they have family entertainmentmovies, classic movies, documentaries, they
have music videos, concerts, varietyshows. They even have cooking shows and
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sports shows. Kayan StarTV is basedon the need for a channel that you
can set your entire family in frontof and not be afraid about what's about
to happen on the TV. You'renot going to have to reach over and
cover your kid's eyes, or coveryour kids ears, or be offended yourself.
Kanyon Star TV is all about thatclassic family friendly programming that we all
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used to watch when we were littlekids. Joey and Kelly also throw a
pitch out there because they're still lookingfor more programming. They tell you what
kind of programming they're looking for,some of the requirements, and where you
could send submissions. At the endof this episode, I told Joey and
Kelly that I was super excited togo load Kenyon Star TV onto all my
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TVs. And That's what I'm goingto do. And while I'm doing that,
this is my conversation with the cofounders of Kenyon Star TV CEO Joey
Canyon and President Kelly Cantz. Prograttabe fascinating for Gretta, be fascinating,
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prett be fascinated. Welcome to FascinationStreet Podcast, Joey Canyon and Kelly Cants.
How are you guys doing today?Right? Good Steve, Thanks for
having us. Absolutely my pleasure.So what I like to do, folks,
is I like to get to knowthe guests from where they started.
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It helps us get to understand howthey became who they are and why they're
doing the cool things they're doing.So if you guys don't mind, Joey,
Where were you born and raised?Man? Where'd you grow up?
I was born in California, northof Los Angeles and the Santa Garita Valley
pretty much back then was out inthe country, way out in the country.
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And if you told people where youlive, they didn't know where you
lived, because back they nobody knew. But now it's a whole different story.
And so I was raised in prettymuch kind of ranch land country.
So you grew up as a cowboy? Well, I want to be cowboy.
Back then we didn't have horses.But at a young age, baseball
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was my first love. Started playingbaseball at eleven, and I started playing
guitar and singing at eleven as well, but started singing it like eight years
old. So wow, I hadtwo loves at the time. Red Kelly,
where are you born and raised?Where'd you grow up? I'm a
Dallas, Texas girl? What?Yeah? From Dallas girl? You grew
up in partially Dallas and then Irving, Texas, which are basically the same
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thing, aren't they. Pretty bornand raised in San Antonio myself, so
Colorado fella Texan was a Texan,always a Texan. I'm talking about what
did you want to be when yougrew up? What was the plan?
You know? I don't know.I think I always just wanted to have
fun, you know, So whateverI did, I wanted to have fun.
It started out going to college doingjournalism, and then halfway through college
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I got it offered a job doingmarketing MPR for a chain of Western Ware
stores in the Dallas area. Didthat. Then the owners of Dallas Alley,
which was nine nightclubs all at adifferent genre, the owners started coming
up and visiting me at one ofthe Western Ware stores in the West End
downtown and offered me a job doingmarketing MPR for all their nightclubs and the
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VIP concerts. So I did thatand then helped Patrick Gotch start RFDTV the
first time out of the Livestock Exchangebuilding in Fort Worth, Texas. Didn't
work, lasted about a year anda half, did a few other things,
and then when he started RFDTV againwent back, well, what did
your parents think when you got intothe nightclub promoting business. I don't think
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anybody really cared. They just knewI was having a good time and I
was having a good job. Joey, what did you want to be when
you grew up. Man, Iwanted to be a professional baseball player.
Had that work out. I'm aleft handed pitcher. I was a left
handed pitcher, and I was anall Southern California pitcher through high school and
college, and I was one ofthe top pitchers in Southern California at one
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time. And then through it all, like I said, I was playing
guitar and so on and so forth. By my semi pro years of baseball,
I injured my rotator cuffs, somy career was over. But I
was very fortunate because I loved musicand singing so much that I just went
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from one stage to another stage.And I moved to Colorado, and really
my professional career started there and it'sbeen quite a wild ride since then.
By Colorado, I had an offereda job that was unrelated to entertainment,
and you know, when you're ayoung man of twenty three, you want
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to experience everything and all. AndI went to college not far from Colorado
and Nebraska. We would go downthere and play baseball, and so I
always knew I liked it down there. So when I got the offer,
I said, sure, I'll go. And the first month I was there,
I knew I wasn't going back toCalifornia. Really, yeah, my
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whole life was most of my lifewas spent in Colorado. Oh wow,
Yes, so Kelly, you startedwith did you say rfd what was it
called? Yeah? RFDTV built ourFDTV up. We had another network worked
on that one too, and leftthere and one of the men on the
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board had some networks and said,hey, why don't you come over here
and help me build the leaf?So did you two? America BIS TV,
BIS talk radio. We did acouple of outt platforms and then one
day decided, you know, Idon't really want to work for someone else,
and WIT started my own Chants Mediaand started connecting people and do my
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own thing. And Joey and I'veknown each other. That's we met through
RFDTV. He had a TV showhe wanted to put on and I said,
I think it's great, I'll putit on. And we've stayed friends
for many, many years, andhe's wanted to do this network. Well,
he can explain what how he wantedto do this, but I think
both of us always believed in eachother. He always did a great job,
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and we get along really great,Joey, what was this TV show
that you had in mind that youpitched to Kelly all these years ago?
I was in Colorado and I wasgearing up to fly to Nashville like I
did many times, to record,and I had an idea after watching TV
in my living room and with theTV muted and I'm playing guitar like I
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did a lot, and watching TVand trying to find something to watch,
and finally I couldn't believe it,and I go, you know, I'm
going to start my own TV show. So I geared it towards the old
variety shows like Jimmy Dean and DeanMartin and Marty Robin Show and these kinds
of shows, and I thought,you know, I'm bringing that back.
So I had the idea, andthen I got to Nashville to record an
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album, and Kelly a day ortwo before that, said, we'll come
by and see me and let's talk. So I came by and saw her
and presented her my idea of theJoey Canyon Show country music variety show.
She loved the idea and she said, well, you know, get me
a sizzle reel. And it tookme a couple of years before I could
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put that together, and I did, and then she loved it, like
she said, and it was verysuccessful on RFD during that time. Helly,
are you in Nashville? I leftNashville about a year, almost two
years ago. I've moved to Biloxi, Mississippi eighties and I moved here to
spend some time with my day.Oh how sweet. The only thing I
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know about Biloxi's it's it's beautiful,it's slow paced, it's wonderful. Ah.
Rad, So you went from theRFD to Maybury RFD. Joey,
are you still in Colorado? No, I've been in Nashville a little over
a year and a half now.I moved here to launch the network.
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I felt if I was here andpart of the community and all these connections
that I had, I could startto face to face with people and get
the network to move rather quickly,which it did. So I'm here in
actually Hendersonville, northeast of Nashville.So gotcha. So now we're getting into
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Canyon Star TV, our favorite subject. Joey and Kelly are both co founders.
Kelly is the president, Joey isthe CEO. Did I get that
right, Yes, yep. I'mgoing to assume this was Joey's idea because
Kelly's too busy with all this otherstuff going on. Or was this an
idea together when I pulled my TVshow from RFDTV. Well, first,
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why did you pull it? BecauseI had the idea and the responsibility to
bring family friendly entertainment back to television. There was a couple other reasons,
but that was the main reason.I was kind of like Kelly. I
was tired of being controlled by otherpeople and so on, so I said,
no, I'm going to start myown television network so I can control
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things in the right way. SoI told Kelly, I said, you
know, I'm pulling my show andI'm starting my own television network. And
she said, well, I understand. She said, please keep me up
to date with that. That's howit started. Joey, I'm gonna ask
you a question, and I meanthis with all due respect, and it's
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one of my favorite questions to askpeople. What made you think you could
start a television network? Well?Do you think you could? Man?
Because when I get something in myhead, I followed through with it.
My faith is very strong, soI knew if I had the good Lord
with me, I could do it. But I still remembered what my mom
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told me as a kid. Youknow, she said, you can do
anything you want, you can beanybody you want to be, and so
I always believed her. That subconsciouslygot into my head. So when I
had this idea, I didn't thinkI couldn't do it. Wow. And
so at that point you reached outto Kelly and said, hey, remember
when I said I wanted to doa thing and you said, get back
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with me. I'll let her tellyou that story. You know. The
thing is is I've built networks.Notice I didn't ask you that question because
that's what you've been doing for verywell. I mean, when you're a
network and you have to learn howto do things you know that you really
don't know. You know, howdo you create a new show? You
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know, twelve to three every daythat's live? How do you create a
serious XM channel? Was a greatlearning launch pad for me. And then
when you move on to another networkand you're doing completely different programming, you
know, lifestyle programming, business programming, and then you know, getting programming
for the OTT platforms. I learneda lot about OTT platforms. Then I
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started my own company, and thenI learned more about OTT platforms. Who
can build them? What is anOTT platform? I'm sorry, over the
top. So it's a Netflix typethat's an easy way to say. It's
a streaming network. Yeah, okay, So I learned how to do it.
I learned more and more from peoplethat had platforms. I saw the
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way the industry was changing, andit for sure is I mean, it
has been changing for a long time. It still is going to change.
I think that this is the waypeople are going to view TV from now
on. You're still going to havepeople who are older that don't quite get
it. But I had the connections, and so Joey and I worked together.
I connected people that I knew orthat he knew, and we did
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it, and you know, weset a launch day and I just started
reaching out to people how I knewthat had programming and said, hey,
I'm going to start this network andyou know, you're not going to make
very much money in the beginning,but will you come on? And almost
all of them have. I meanwe have almost seven hundred individual shows really
yea, yeah, and growing dayby day. And I wanted to add
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because you asked, what made youthink you could start a television network.
Well, I wasn't without a backgroundin production and in music. I had
a very extensive background in music andstill do and production, so I knew
that part of it. The biggestpart for me was learning the systems and
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exactly what Kelly was saying, learningthe OTT platform of live streaming and how
to put that puzzle together and howit worked. And so my most important
asset is Kelly because number one,we worked so well together. But while
we were both learning the OTT stuff, okay, she was practically applying it
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right away. Me I had toput together the team and the systems and
corporate stuff and you know, bringingon Gideo, which who Kelly brought in
that develops our network online presence.So it wasn't one day I woke up
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and go, oh, I'm goingto do this. I didn't wake up
and say, Okay, I'm goingto be an astronaut and you know nothing
about it. I have a backgroundin the entertainment industry and production, so
I knew how to how to produceshows. I knew music. I just
needed Kelly's expertise to help the networkand myself put everything else together and bring
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in content. So gotcha. Thankyou for that. I guess back,
Phil, I appreciate that you're betHigh Street lockers. Here's a word for
our sponsors. Let's get back intoit. Did you say you have seven
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hundred shows? We're at six hundredand ninety eight individual shows. So what
does that mean? Are we said? Does that number include like, are
we talking episodes? We're talking varietyshows, documentaries, everything, show titles.
Actually it's over seven hundred titles.It could be today. I mean
I counted it two weeks ago.Yeah, episodes where I don't know,
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six or seven thousand episodes on here. Okay, now forgive me because I'm
not in the starting a network business. But is there enough time? What
I guess I mean for programming,Like you're gonna put seven thousand or whatever
episodes of titles and stuff? Howmany hours round a week? Well?
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I mean, this isn't the thing? Is it? That there's so many
different genres? I mean you canget this on anything that has a screen,
So Roku, Google, Play,Amazon, get on your phone,
you can get it on your computer. You can I mean, we have
an app you can watch on yourphone, your computer or anything with a
screen, you can get the network. So the good thing about an OTT
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platform is that nothing's ever set instone. You can go in and watch
whatever you want whenever you want.You can binge something if you want to
binge it, if you want tojust go from place to place, you
can. I mean, it's likewith any other OTT platform that way.
So the point is that we havevariety. You know, we have variety
movies, music, you know,entertainment, talk shows, faith programming.
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The funny thing is is that thefaith programming has been amazing. That's coming
out of the woodwork because there's onlya few options for people with faith programming
to actually place their show on.So we've given them the opportunity. And
we just created a new genre formusic videos because you know what, nobody's
doing music videos anymore. You know, these networks it's all about a TV
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show. Well, if you wantto come on here and watch music videos
one right after the other, youcan do that, you know, So
that's getting built up. People arestarting to come out of the woodwork on
that. I'm getting notices on LinkedInand getting emails at people saying, hey,
can you will you put my musicvideo on there's no place to put
my music video. So everything's growing. And the cool thing is is that
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because it's just Joey and I makingdecisions, we're able to do whatever we
feel like we want to do.So if something pops up, we're like,
oh, I didn't think about that, did you. You know,
we can create it. And that'sreally the fun part because we don't have
some big giant corporation telling us whatwe can and can't do. We're going
to do what's successful for the networkand for the programmers, because ultimately we
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really want everyone to be successful,and you know the only way you do
that is to make sure the programmersare happy and you're promoting them and social
media wise and press releases us andthings like that, because we wouldn't be
who we are already without these programmers, so they're very important. Let me
add to that, Kelly and I. We have lots of other people that
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work for us in different capacities.But she's right, she and I run
this thing. She and I makethe decisions right now, and this is
actually the history making time. Yes, these are the times that in a
few years from now, Kelly andI are will go remember when we did
this, remember it was just youand I. Because soon we will have
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a large group of people in house. It'll take a we hope, a
better course. But what we're doingright now is very fun for us.
We look at it just virtually almostevery day and go, wow, look
what's going on here, Look whatwe're doing. Really are proud of ourselves.
I humbly proud of ourselves. It'sbeen a lot of work, but
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it's been really fun at the sametime. It's watching a baby grow.
It really is, for sure,Kelly and Joey. I want to apologize
for that last question I asked whenI was like, oh, where is
all the time? Is there enoughhours in the day, I was equating
it to like ABC or something whereyou know there's just something on right after
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the other after the other. Well, that's linear television broadcast TV, right,
And so I apologize. And youdid already specifically say that it's more
along the lines of a Netflix oran Amazon or something. So you know,
that's not to say that we won'thave a fast channel, which is
a new thing. We may dothat, and probably we will. Then
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we'll be on regular TV and we'llsee I mean, let me give you
another example, Steve, of thatwhen I go to produce a show could
even be my show. Okay,and mine is an hour show, which
in broadcast television that's forty four minutesof real time. The rest is commercials.
Well, now that I'm getting readyto start my show up again,
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I could run literally sixteen minutes.It doesn't matter, and we can put
the commercials in there. Still.We don't have to go from six in
the evening to seven in the eveningand be right on. That's broadcast television.
So we have the luxury of producingshort or long or right in the
middle, doesn't matter. For instance, is is we have Undercover jet Center
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is a show and Undercovered jet Centertravels around, they eat, they look
at the cities, They have agreat time, and they have these little
shorts and they are just little shortson how to cook something, what kind
of wine do you drink? Withthis the availability to have people who have
short, little vignettes that don't reallyhave a place for them to go,
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we can do that, and wehave some we love that. So that's
one of those things that we're ableto do that a regular television network cannot
do. It's good for us andtwo things that are very important Steve,
you can put your whole family infront of the television and have no fear
of questionable programming. Yeah, weare family friendly. Is that one of
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the reasons that you did it isbecause there's kind of a lack of a
family. Absolutely. Yes, wehave a safe haven for families. Gotcha.
So everything on your channel is goingto be family friendly. Everything on
our network is network. Thank you? Sorry? Yes, okay, So
what are what are some of mydifferent genres? I mean, I know
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there's family, random stuff. Doyou have movies? Do you have documentaries?
I know you mentioned music? Whatelse you got? What are the
categories? Yeah, movies, wehave TV documents, documentaries for music.
We have animal programming, a lotof cooking programming, a lot of entertainment.
Entertainment can be anything from Jewey Kingand Show to Shotgun Red too.
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We have all the Billy Bob's showsdon't air anyplace else. We have lifestyle
programming. We have music programming,We have concerts, music videos, faith
programming, kids programming, talk shows, outdoor programming, health and fitness.
I need some gardening. So ifyou know anybody who has gardening shows,
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I need. We have sports andadventure programming, travel and leisure, some
business programming. We've also started puttingon people who have radio shows. We
started putting radio shows on and we'vealso started putting podcasts on in case if
you're interested in doing that. Butwe have rural programming, some veteran programming,
history, and we have art andclassic TV. So you have a
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lot of good classic TV like Ossieand Harriet. We have classic TV comedy,
The Lucy Show, Red Skelton,Betty White. We have classic westerns
Bananza, Roy Rogers, Ranger,and then we have some of the some
westerns with you some of the biggeststars, Gene Autrey, John Wayne text
Ritter, a lot of movies fromthose guys. We have some stuff from
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the thirties, forties and fifties,and we have a lot of Christmas programming,
really good stuff. And one ofthe things that's interesting that we put
is we put the big bands thirtyforties and more. So there's a lot
of really great music in. There'san old Showtime at the Apollo, the
Rock and Roll Review. There's somestuff in here from years ago in the
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thirties with Eartha Kit and Tab CallawayBillie Holiday. Those are just amazing videos
because those are hard things to comeby. But we're connected. And then
we have a lot of old newsreelstoo. I mean, we have a
lot, a lot, a lotof stuff, and every day I have
more and more and more on here. Got Paula Deane, who I love.
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We have some great stuff on here, and I think there's something for
everybody putting all of this together,that's where all of your experience and your
contacts and your networking comes in onboth for both of you, guys,
I think you can say that surenow you did mention you're looking for certain
things. Is there a place whereyou know, people listening can say,
oh, wait a minute, Ihave a gardening show or I've got a
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radio show or whatever. How wouldthey submit that to you, guys?
Well, first of all, wehave a criteria. It has to be
family friendly. And what do Imean by that? No bad language,
no sexual situations, no horror,no gore, just no compromising situations you
don't want children to see. That'sa first and foremost criteria. Second is
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production quality. They could have agreat show, but if they don't shoot
it with a high res camera orit doesn't look right to us. We
don't want to put substandard quality onthe network. Third, Kelly and I
get together and go, it's areal big committee, and well here's how
we make decision. Do you likeit? Yeah? I like it?
Okay, yeah, I like ittoo. There you go, that's true.
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That's true. I have churned somestuff away. You know, you
just have to do that sometimes ifyou want to want to make sure that
it looks good, you know.I mean there's a few things that are
older that we have on here,like Justin Wilson. I moved to Biloxi
and the guy who has all theJustin Wilson stuff is in Biloxi. Oh
wow. You know, sometimes it'sjust a fluke. That footage is not
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going to change. You know.It's old. He has passed away.
There's not even very many good picturesof him out there. So you know,
you have some stuff of some ofit. It is what it is,
but it's still good. Yeah.So again, we're talking about canyon
Star TV, which is an appor a channel or a network, whatever
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you want to call it. It'san OTT. I just learned that today,
guys. It is available on Rokuand Chrome all the places where you
get all the things. If youcan get Netflix, you can get Canyon
Star TV. Yes. Now thislaunched January of twenty twenty three, is
that right, January twenty seventh.Yes. Why the name Canyon starts ev
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because I ran this by Kelly.As soon as I thought about it,
I like my name and all ofthat, and I thought, okay,
this is going to be really ifyou want to call it an American a
lifestyle type of network, okay,with everything in it. And so I
thought, okay, Canyon Okay.So I thought of my name, and
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I forget what else I was thinkingabout where I came up with the star,
but I just thought Canyon and Starit originally you know the parent company
as Canyon Star Network, but wedo business as Canyon Star TV. So
I called Kelly and I said,what do you think about Canyon Star Network?
This was over five years ago.She says, I love it.
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So it was born just a fewyears ago. We decided to change to
Canyon You start TV as the presenceon one. Now, Kelly, when
you got that phone call, didyou say, she said, oh no,
not him again? Did you say, Joey, Well, I was
really thinking Kant's Star TV. Youknow what I gotta say. I often
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think I could do my own network, of course, but I would never
call it Kans myself. I thinkKenyon Star is great. I think it
just sounds good, and I likethe idea of it being a star because
you can use the star in somany ways on you know, lower thirds
or whatever. It just visually itlooks good like that. It sounds like
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the bulk of the work to getthis thing live happens kind of all at
the end. That's just how allprojects are, right. Things gradually built
up and then right at the endthere's this huge push and there's a whole
bunch of stuff to do. Howdid COVID affect all of that getting the
network put together? It didn't.It didn't, I have to tell you.
Listen, A lot of stuff cameout of COVID that was bad for
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a lot of people, but alot of things were good for people because
people had to figure out how tomake a living. People had to figure
out how to do things, whichcreated more podcasts, They created more radio
shows. It created more small personlearning how to create TV shows. So,
you know, while it wasn't negative, I think It was really an
interesting way that people tried to figureout how to live. A lot of
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stuff was produced and came alive duringthat time that probably never would have happened
if there wasn't COVID. Necessity isthe mother of invention, so it's exactly
what happened. Do either one ofyou know who is the father of invention.
I'm just curious the father. Ican take a guess. Okay,
go ahead, Leonardo da Vinci,Sure, why not? I have no
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idea. I was just curious.Check him out. I love it.
I'm gonna go with that one becauseI don't have a better answer. And
that dude was rad. He inventedso many things. You'll be astounded.
No, you'll be astounded. Heinvented the helicopter. That's crazy. Well,
that's correct. I know that's nuts. So info at Canyon Star dot
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tv if any if you have anybodythat has interests and wanting to add programming,
it's contact at Canyon Star dot tv. And that's if people want to
submit or have questions or anything likethat. It's just contact at Kanyeon StarTV.
Yeah, Canyon Star dot TV.See look, I'm messing it up
to man, Yeah, we're nota dot com, We're a dot TV.
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We're a dot TV. Yeah,that's gonna be your slogans. You're
gonna have a t shirts to say, Canyon StarTV we're dot TV. Yeah.
Tell me three things, Kelly,as far as programming that you think
are really going to knock off thesocks of everybody listening. Listen. I
have a show called Hidden Heritage.It's it's one of my very favorite shows
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on the network. It is worthtaking a look at. It's the story
about a man whose parents died.He had been adopted in Minnesota, and
he was one of the Native Americanswho was taken as a baby and adopted
off And after his parents died,they were going through the attic. His
wife found his adoption papers. Henever knew he was Native American, and
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he knew he was adopted, buthe found out he was Native American and
they found his family. And itis a show about the discovery of you
think you're this, and all ofa sudden you find out you're this,
and how do you blend those together. It's beautiful. They have a band
called Brulet, which is Native Americanmusic and it's I don't know, I
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just I find it really a touchingshow. You know, I really loved
that show. I have a sportsshow on here that I think is fantastic
too. It's called From Glory Days, and I love it because Kurt interviews
people on this show, his nameis Kurt David. He interviews sports figures
that made a lot of money andyears later, how do you still have
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money? Did you blow it all? Did you spend it all? What
did you do to keep the moneyand be successful? In its interviews with
famous sports figures and how they havesucceeded in this life after sports was over.
So I love that one too.That's a real good one. Nice
Joey, give me a couple.What are your tops? Get me excited?
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Well, I'm very blessed that thehighest ratings of the network is my
TV show. So I kind oflike that guy. What's that called?
Is that called the Joey Kenyon Show? It is? How did you come
up with that night? I'm justkidding, you know, it took me
a long time. I just itjust came to me and it was a
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revelation. I just you called Kellyand she was like, well, I
was going to call it the Kellycan't show but okay, yeah, exactly,
so that I'm very blessed with that, truly, am. There's thirty
nine episodes for you to watch.And then you know, it's really with
the fun part that Kelly and Ido bringing on a content every day.
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It's the flavor of the day.I mean what She'll call me and say,
hey, guess what I've got.So I go and look at it,
and I'm oh, that's my favorite, and then this is my favorite.
But I have to say that it'sthe variety because I really like classic
television. I love Ozzie and Harriet, I like Dragnet, I like these
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kinds of shows. I really loveour faith category. So those are favorites,
believe me. Of cooking shows areso much fun, and course Brulet
I really really like. But otherthan Prejudice being my show, I can't
give you. Every day is different, Steve, and I'm glad that it
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is that I could change every dayalmost nice. I'm not going to ask
about favorites, but you did mentionedthat there's some concerts. Throw some names
at me whose concerts you got onthere? I have a Portraits of Colorado
show and it's a Symphony Show.It's it's fantastic. And then I have
Brulet and I have more coming,So concerts is going to grow. But
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their boulet is really great. They'relive at Mount Rushmore, right there in
front of Mount Rushmore. It's verycool. You gotta watch that. It's
beautiful, isn't it? Yes?It is. You got to watch it
beautiful. Wow, that sounds amazing. Here's a bizarre question. Maybe where
on social media can people go toto follow and find out more about Canyon
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Star TV. Do you guys havesocial media? Oh? Big time.
You can go to Canyon Star TVon Facebook, Instagram, Instagram LinkedIn.
Those are the three biggies. HuhSo, Joey, are you are you
doing? Are you dancing on TikTok? No? Kelly, Joey, have
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I missed anything? Did we covereverything? Like? Is there anything we
didn't talk about or I didn't askyou about that you specifically wanted to talk
about today? I don't know.I think you did pretty good, Joey.
You think you missed anything? Yeah? I think I think he did
pretty good too, for his firsttime. That's pretty good. I think
really about all of this stuff,I think that you know TV anymore.
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You pull it up and you're not. Really there's so much negative stuff all
the time in this world, andit's kind of fun to build something that
isn't negative, you know what Imean. Like every program is positive and
that's something that I think both Joeyand I are really proud of. And
I think anybody who here's your show, give us a chance. Come on,
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you know, sign up and yougot to just put your email in
and a password. It's free,there's no charge to watch the network.
Take a chance with some of theseprogrammers that you know are really pretty great
folks. Joey and I were reallyclear we weren't going to work with anybody
that was a paying basically, andwe've picked wonderful, wonderful people. They
have helped promote the network, andwe're really proud of them for helping promote
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and providing great programming for people whoare going to come on board and watch.
And so, you know, i'dlike your people come on. We
want people to go on to CanyonStar TV, Steve and be part of
our family. We want them toknow that when they go there, they're
with us, and they're proud tobe with us. And that star up
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there, that Canyon Star TV withthe star up there. That's not us,
that's them. Yeah, they allcan be a star because I want
them to feel like they're a starwith us. The star is the community.
That's correct. Now, you guysare talking about the lack of kind
of family friendly programming, punctuate thatactually by telling you a little story.
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There was a TV show that wason major network, regular broadcast network available
to the masses. It was onfor I don't know, like eleven Caesars
or something. I think it wascalled Brands. I don't know if you
guys have watched Friends recently, butmy wife and I started rewatching it again
and I was blown away at howunfamily friendly that show was. And that
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was just a regular TV show thatthe entire country watched every week. It's
just amazing that, like the storylinesand some of the subject matter. I
just like pause, and I lookat my wife and I'm like, oh
my gosh, everybody could this wasjust on regular TV? Like what in
the heck? Now they didn't saybad words, but the subject matter and
some of the storylines, You're justlike, what it's the innuendo and everything
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and You make a very valid pointbecause way back then when that was going
on, that was broadcast television.I don't know one of the three bigs,
you know, big ones. Theylet that d and that was the
beginning of the end, because fromthere it followed more and then it got
more provocative as the years went by, and then more and more. Then
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it started getting graphic and so on, and now it doesn't have to be
broadcast. You can go to streamingnetworks and you know which ones they are
out there that you look at itand you wonder, how is that able
to be out there? Even forthe commercials these days? Oh goodness,
gracis commercials. You're so right,Kelly. But let me not point the
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finger here. People have the rightto go watch whatever they want to,
Okay, if you don't like it, you can change the channel. It's
about choices. It's about choices,and you can do the choices you want.
We just want people to know thatCanyon Star TV is a choice for
your family and it's friendly and that'swhat you'll get. And you know what,
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if you don't like us, youcan change us too. But I
think you're gonna like us so well. I couldn't ask for a better pitch
and a great note to go outon. He founders of Kenyon Star TV
CEO Joey Kenyon President Kelly Cants,thank you both so much for taking the
time out of your busy day andyou're a hectic programming like crazy schedule to
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hang out and let us get toknow you a little bit better and to
help us get to know a littlebit more about Kenyon Star TV. I
really appreciate both of your times,and you, guys, have a great
rest of your week. This isgoing to be amazing. I'm so excited
to go put this on all ofmy TVs right now. Steve, thank
you. We're glad, both ofus. We're glad to be with you
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today, truly, thank you somuch. The pleasure was all mine,
and y'all I have a great restof your week you too. Thank you,
Thank you, Thank you, Steve. Bye bye, guys. Opening
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Hi, this is Richard can keepFriedman and you are listening to the podcast
Fascination Street. Yeah, yes,that app was giving this tone of your
visual down the most insurest street inthe world with my voice Dan, Fascination
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Street already. No, let's getit when you wat Welcome Back Street Walkers.
This episode is with Joey Canyon andKelly Cants. They are the CEO
and president respectively, and co foundersof the new streaming service called Canyon Star
TV. In this episode, weget a little bit of a background on
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both Joey and Kelly and kind ofwhat brought them together and why they created
this new family friendly streaming channel.We talk a little bit about some of
their programming where they have family entertainmentmovies, classic movies, documentaries, they
have music videos, concerts, varietyshows. They even have cooking shows and
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sports shows. Kayan StarTV is basedon the need for a channel that you
can set your entire family in frontof and not be afraid about what's about
to happen on the TV. You'renot going to have to reach over and
cover your kid's eyes, or coveryour kids ears, or be offended yourself.
Kanyon Star TV is all about thatclassic family friendly programming that we all
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used to watch when we were littlekids. Joey and Kelly also throw a
pitch out there because they're still lookingfor more programming. They tell you what
kind of programming they're looking for,some of the requirements, and where you
could send submissions. At the endof this episode, I told Joey and
Kelly that I was super excited togo load Kenyon Star TV onto all my
(01:56):
TVs. And That's what I'm goingto do. And while I'm doing that,
this is my conversation with the cofounders of Kenyon Star TV CEO Joey
Canyon and President Kelly Cantz. Prograttabe fascinating for Gretta, be fascinating,
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prett be fascinated. Welcome to FascinationStreet Podcast, Joey Canyon and Kelly Cants.
How are you guys doing today?Right? Good Steve, Thanks for
having us. Absolutely my pleasure.So what I like to do, folks,
is I like to get to knowthe guests from where they started.
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It helps us get to understand howthey became who they are and why they're
doing the cool things they're doing.So if you guys don't mind, Joey,
Where were you born and raised?Man? Where'd you grow up?
I was born in California, northof Los Angeles and the Santa Garita Valley
pretty much back then was out inthe country, way out in the country.
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And if you told people where youlive, they didn't know where you
lived, because back they nobody knew. But now it's a whole different story.
And so I was raised in prettymuch kind of ranch land country.
So you grew up as a cowboy? Well, I want to be cowboy.
Back then we didn't have horses.But at a young age, baseball
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was my first love. Started playingbaseball at eleven, and I started playing
guitar and singing at eleven as well, but started singing it like eight years
old. So wow, I hadtwo loves at the time. Red Kelly,
where are you born and raised?Where'd you grow up? I'm a
Dallas, Texas girl? What?Yeah? From Dallas girl? You grew
up in partially Dallas and then Irving, Texas, which are basically the same
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thing, aren't they. Pretty bornand raised in San Antonio myself, so
Colorado fella Texan was a Texan,always a Texan. I'm talking about what
did you want to be when yougrew up? What was the plan?
You know? I don't know.I think I always just wanted to have
fun, you know, So whateverI did, I wanted to have fun.
It started out going to college doingjournalism, and then halfway through college
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I got it offered a job doingmarketing MPR for a chain of Western Ware
stores in the Dallas area. Didthat. Then the owners of Dallas Alley,
which was nine nightclubs all at adifferent genre, the owners started coming
up and visiting me at one ofthe Western Ware stores in the West End
downtown and offered me a job doingmarketing MPR for all their nightclubs and the
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VIP concerts. So I did thatand then helped Patrick Gotch start RFDTV the
first time out of the Livestock Exchangebuilding in Fort Worth, Texas. Didn't
work, lasted about a year anda half, did a few other things,
and then when he started RFDTV againwent back, well, what did
your parents think when you got intothe nightclub promoting business. I don't think
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anybody really cared. They just knewI was having a good time and I
was having a good job. Joey, what did you want to be when
you grew up. Man, Iwanted to be a professional baseball player.
Had that work out. I'm aleft handed pitcher. I was a left
handed pitcher, and I was anall Southern California pitcher through high school and
college, and I was one ofthe top pitchers in Southern California at one
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time. And then through it all, like I said, I was playing
guitar and so on and so forth. By my semi pro years of baseball,
I injured my rotator cuffs, somy career was over. But I
was very fortunate because I loved musicand singing so much that I just went
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from one stage to another stage.And I moved to Colorado, and really
my professional career started there and it'sbeen quite a wild ride since then.
By Colorado, I had an offereda job that was unrelated to entertainment,
and you know, when you're ayoung man of twenty three, you want
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to experience everything and all. AndI went to college not far from Colorado
and Nebraska. We would go downthere and play baseball, and so I
always knew I liked it down there. So when I got the offer,
I said, sure, I'll go. And the first month I was there,
I knew I wasn't going back toCalifornia. Really, yeah, my
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whole life was most of my lifewas spent in Colorado. Oh wow,
Yes, so Kelly, you startedwith did you say rfd what was it
called? Yeah? RFDTV built ourFDTV up. We had another network worked
on that one too, and leftthere and one of the men on the
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board had some networks and said,hey, why don't you come over here
and help me build the leaf?So did you two? America BIS TV,
BIS talk radio. We did acouple of outt platforms and then one
day decided, you know, Idon't really want to work for someone else,
and WIT started my own Chants Mediaand started connecting people and do my
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own thing. And Joey and I'veknown each other. That's we met through
RFDTV. He had a TV showhe wanted to put on and I said,
I think it's great, I'll putit on. And we've stayed friends
for many, many years, andhe's wanted to do this network. Well,
he can explain what how he wantedto do this, but I think
both of us always believed in eachother. He always did a great job,
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and we get along really great,Joey, what was this TV show
that you had in mind that youpitched to Kelly all these years ago?
I was in Colorado and I wasgearing up to fly to Nashville like I
did many times, to record,and I had an idea after watching TV
in my living room and with theTV muted and I'm playing guitar like I
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did a lot, and watching TVand trying to find something to watch,
and finally I couldn't believe it,and I go, you know, I'm
going to start my own TV show. So I geared it towards the old
variety shows like Jimmy Dean and DeanMartin and Marty Robin Show and these kinds
of shows, and I thought,you know, I'm bringing that back.
So I had the idea, andthen I got to Nashville to record an
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album, and Kelly a day ortwo before that, said, we'll come
by and see me and let's talk. So I came by and saw her
and presented her my idea of theJoey Canyon Show country music variety show.
She loved the idea and she said, well, you know, get me
a sizzle reel. And it tookme a couple of years before I could
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put that together, and I did, and then she loved it, like
she said, and it was verysuccessful on RFD during that time. Helly,
are you in Nashville? I leftNashville about a year, almost two
years ago. I've moved to Biloxi, Mississippi eighties and I moved here to
spend some time with my day.Oh how sweet. The only thing I
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know about Biloxi's it's it's beautiful,it's slow paced, it's wonderful. Ah.
Rad, So you went from theRFD to Maybury RFD. Joey,
are you still in Colorado? No, I've been in Nashville a little over
a year and a half now.I moved here to launch the network.
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I felt if I was here andpart of the community and all these connections
that I had, I could startto face to face with people and get
the network to move rather quickly,which it did. So I'm here in
actually Hendersonville, northeast of Nashville.So gotcha. So now we're getting into
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Canyon Star TV, our favorite subject. Joey and Kelly are both co founders.
Kelly is the president, Joey isthe CEO. Did I get that
right, Yes, yep. I'mgoing to assume this was Joey's idea because
Kelly's too busy with all this otherstuff going on. Or was this an
idea together when I pulled my TVshow from RFDTV. Well, first,
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why did you pull it? BecauseI had the idea and the responsibility to
bring family friendly entertainment back to television. There was a couple other reasons,
but that was the main reason.I was kind of like Kelly. I
was tired of being controlled by otherpeople and so on, so I said,
no, I'm going to start myown television network so I can control
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things in the right way. SoI told Kelly, I said, you
know, I'm pulling my show andI'm starting my own television network. And
she said, well, I understand. She said, please keep me up
to date with that. That's howit started. Joey, I'm gonna ask
you a question, and I meanthis with all due respect, and it's
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one of my favorite questions to askpeople. What made you think you could
start a television network? Well?Do you think you could? Man?
Because when I get something in myhead, I followed through with it.
My faith is very strong, soI knew if I had the good Lord
with me, I could do it. But I still remembered what my mom
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told me as a kid. Youknow, she said, you can do
anything you want, you can beanybody you want to be, and so
I always believed her. That subconsciouslygot into my head. So when I
had this idea, I didn't thinkI couldn't do it. Wow. And
so at that point you reached outto Kelly and said, hey, remember
when I said I wanted to doa thing and you said, get back
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with me. I'll let her tellyou that story. You know. The
thing is is I've built networks.Notice I didn't ask you that question because
that's what you've been doing for verywell. I mean, when you're a
network and you have to learn howto do things you know that you really
don't know. You know, howdo you create a new show? You
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know, twelve to three every daythat's live? How do you create a
serious XM channel? Was a greatlearning launch pad for me. And then
when you move on to another networkand you're doing completely different programming, you
know, lifestyle programming, business programming, and then you know, getting programming
for the OTT platforms. I learneda lot about OTT platforms. Then I
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started my own company, and thenI learned more about OTT platforms. Who
can build them? What is anOTT platform? I'm sorry, over the
top. So it's a Netflix typethat's an easy way to say. It's
a streaming network. Yeah, okay, So I learned how to do it.
I learned more and more from peoplethat had platforms. I saw the
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way the industry was changing, andit for sure is I mean, it
has been changing for a long time. It still is going to change.
I think that this is the waypeople are going to view TV from now
on. You're still going to havepeople who are older that don't quite get
it. But I had the connections, and so Joey and I worked together.
I connected people that I knew orthat he knew, and we did
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it, and you know, weset a launch day and I just started
reaching out to people how I knewthat had programming and said, hey,
I'm going to start this network andyou know, you're not going to make
very much money in the beginning,but will you come on? And almost
all of them have. I meanwe have almost seven hundred individual shows really
yea, yeah, and growing dayby day. And I wanted to add
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because you asked, what made youthink you could start a television network.
Well, I wasn't without a backgroundin production and in music. I had
a very extensive background in music andstill do and production, so I knew
that part of it. The biggestpart for me was learning the systems and
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exactly what Kelly was saying, learningthe OTT platform of live streaming and how
to put that puzzle together and howit worked. And so my most important
asset is Kelly because number one,we worked so well together. But while
we were both learning the OTT stuff, okay, she was practically applying it
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right away. Me I had toput together the team and the systems and
corporate stuff and you know, bringingon Gideo, which who Kelly brought in
that develops our network online presence.So it wasn't one day I woke up
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and go, oh, I'm goingto do this. I didn't wake up
and say, Okay, I'm goingto be an astronaut and you know nothing
about it. I have a backgroundin the entertainment industry and production, so
I knew how to how to produceshows. I knew music. I just
needed Kelly's expertise to help the networkand myself put everything else together and bring
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in content. So gotcha. Thankyou for that. I guess back,
Phil, I appreciate that you're betHigh Street lockers. Here's a word for
our sponsors. Let's get back intoit. Did you say you have seven
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hundred shows? We're at six hundredand ninety eight individual shows. So what
does that mean? Are we said? Does that number include like, are
we talking episodes? We're talking varietyshows, documentaries, everything, show titles.
Actually it's over seven hundred titles.It could be today. I mean
I counted it two weeks ago.Yeah, episodes where I don't know,
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six or seven thousand episodes on here. Okay, now forgive me because I'm
not in the starting a network business. But is there enough time? What
I guess I mean for programming,Like you're gonna put seven thousand or whatever
episodes of titles and stuff? Howmany hours round a week? Well?
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I mean, this isn't the thing? Is it? That there's so many
different genres? I mean you canget this on anything that has a screen,
So Roku, Google, Play,Amazon, get on your phone,
you can get it on your computer. You can I mean, we have
an app you can watch on yourphone, your computer or anything with a
screen, you can get the network. So the good thing about an OTT
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platform is that nothing's ever set instone. You can go in and watch
whatever you want whenever you want.You can binge something if you want to
binge it, if you want tojust go from place to place, you
can. I mean, it's likewith any other OTT platform that way.
So the point is that we havevariety. You know, we have variety
movies, music, you know,entertainment, talk shows, faith programming.
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The funny thing is is that thefaith programming has been amazing. That's coming
out of the woodwork because there's onlya few options for people with faith programming
to actually place their show on.So we've given them the opportunity. And
we just created a new genre formusic videos because you know what, nobody's
doing music videos anymore. You know, these networks it's all about a TV
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show. Well, if you wantto come on here and watch music videos
one right after the other, youcan do that, you know, So
that's getting built up. People arestarting to come out of the woodwork on
that. I'm getting notices on LinkedInand getting emails at people saying, hey,
can you will you put my musicvideo on there's no place to put
my music video. So everything's growing. And the cool thing is is that
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because it's just Joey and I makingdecisions, we're able to do whatever we
feel like we want to do.So if something pops up, we're like,
oh, I didn't think about that, did you. You know,
we can create it. And that'sreally the fun part because we don't have
some big giant corporation telling us whatwe can and can't do. We're going
to do what's successful for the networkand for the programmers, because ultimately we
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really want everyone to be successful,and you know the only way you do
that is to make sure the programmersare happy and you're promoting them and social
media wise and press releases us andthings like that, because we wouldn't be
who we are already without these programmers, so they're very important. Let me
add to that, Kelly and I. We have lots of other people that
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work for us in different capacities.But she's right, she and I run
this thing. She and I makethe decisions right now, and this is
actually the history making time. Yes, these are the times that in a
few years from now, Kelly andI are will go remember when we did
this, remember it was just youand I. Because soon we will have
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a large group of people in house. It'll take a we hope, a
better course. But what we're doingright now is very fun for us.
We look at it just virtually almostevery day and go, wow, look
what's going on here, Look whatwe're doing. Really are proud of ourselves.
I humbly proud of ourselves. It'sbeen a lot of work, but
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it's been really fun at the sametime. It's watching a baby grow.
It really is, for sure,Kelly and Joey. I want to apologize
for that last question I asked whenI was like, oh, where is
all the time? Is there enoughhours in the day, I was equating
it to like ABC or something whereyou know there's just something on right after
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the other after the other. Well, that's linear television broadcast TV, right,
And so I apologize. And youdid already specifically say that it's more
along the lines of a Netflix oran Amazon or something. So you know,
that's not to say that we won'thave a fast channel, which is
a new thing. We may dothat, and probably we will. Then
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we'll be on regular TV and we'llsee I mean, let me give you
another example, Steve, of thatwhen I go to produce a show could
even be my show. Okay,and mine is an hour show, which
in broadcast television that's forty four minutesof real time. The rest is commercials.
Well, now that I'm getting readyto start my show up again,
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I could run literally sixteen minutes.It doesn't matter, and we can put
the commercials in there. Still.We don't have to go from six in
the evening to seven in the eveningand be right on. That's broadcast television.
So we have the luxury of producingshort or long or right in the
middle, doesn't matter. For instance, is is we have Undercover jet Center
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is a show and Undercovered jet Centertravels around, they eat, they look
at the cities, They have agreat time, and they have these little
shorts and they are just little shortson how to cook something, what kind
of wine do you drink? Withthis the availability to have people who have
short, little vignettes that don't reallyhave a place for them to go,
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we can do that, and wehave some we love that. So that's
one of those things that we're ableto do that a regular television network cannot
do. It's good for us andtwo things that are very important Steve,
you can put your whole family infront of the television and have no fear
of questionable programming. Yeah, weare family friendly. Is that one of
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the reasons that you did it isbecause there's kind of a lack of a
family. Absolutely. Yes, wehave a safe haven for families. Gotcha.
So everything on your channel is goingto be family friendly. Everything on
our network is network. Thank you? Sorry? Yes, okay, So
what are what are some of mydifferent genres? I mean, I know
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there's family, random stuff. Doyou have movies? Do you have documentaries?
I know you mentioned music? Whatelse you got? What are the
categories? Yeah, movies, wehave TV documents, documentaries for music.
We have animal programming, a lotof cooking programming, a lot of entertainment.
Entertainment can be anything from Jewey Kingand Show to Shotgun Red too.
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We have all the Billy Bob's showsdon't air anyplace else. We have lifestyle
programming. We have music programming,We have concerts, music videos, faith
programming, kids programming, talk shows, outdoor programming, health and fitness.
I need some gardening. So ifyou know anybody who has gardening shows,
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I need. We have sports andadventure programming, travel and leisure, some
business programming. We've also started puttingon people who have radio shows. We
started putting radio shows on and we'vealso started putting podcasts on in case if
you're interested in doing that. Butwe have rural programming, some veteran programming,
history, and we have art andclassic TV. So you have a
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lot of good classic TV like Ossieand Harriet. We have classic TV comedy,
The Lucy Show, Red Skelton,Betty White. We have classic westerns
Bananza, Roy Rogers, Ranger,and then we have some of the some
westerns with you some of the biggeststars, Gene Autrey, John Wayne text
Ritter, a lot of movies fromthose guys. We have some stuff from
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the thirties, forties and fifties,and we have a lot of Christmas programming,
really good stuff. And one ofthe things that's interesting that we put
is we put the big bands thirtyforties and more. So there's a lot
of really great music in. There'san old Showtime at the Apollo, the
Rock and Roll Review. There's somestuff in here from years ago in the
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thirties with Eartha Kit and Tab CallawayBillie Holiday. Those are just amazing videos
because those are hard things to comeby. But we're connected. And then
we have a lot of old newsreelstoo. I mean, we have a
lot, a lot, a lotof stuff, and every day I have
more and more and more on here. Got Paula Deane, who I love.
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We have some great stuff on here, and I think there's something for
everybody putting all of this together,that's where all of your experience and your
contacts and your networking comes in onboth for both of you, guys,
I think you can say that surenow you did mention you're looking for certain
things. Is there a place whereyou know, people listening can say,
oh, wait a minute, Ihave a gardening show or I've got a
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radio show or whatever. How wouldthey submit that to you, guys?
Well, first of all, wehave a criteria. It has to be
family friendly. And what do Imean by that? No bad language,
no sexual situations, no horror,no gore, just no compromising situations you
don't want children to see. That'sa first and foremost criteria. Second is
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production quality. They could have agreat show, but if they don't shoot
it with a high res camera orit doesn't look right to us. We
don't want to put substandard quality onthe network. Third, Kelly and I
get together and go, it's areal big committee, and well here's how
we make decision. Do you likeit? Yeah? I like it?
Okay, yeah, I like ittoo. There you go, that's true.
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That's true. I have churned somestuff away. You know, you
just have to do that sometimes ifyou want to want to make sure that
it looks good, you know.I mean there's a few things that are
older that we have on here,like Justin Wilson. I moved to Biloxi
and the guy who has all theJustin Wilson stuff is in Biloxi. Oh
wow. You know, sometimes it'sjust a fluke. That footage is not
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going to change. You know.It's old. He has passed away.
There's not even very many good picturesof him out there. So you know,
you have some stuff of some ofit. It is what it is,
but it's still good. Yeah.So again, we're talking about canyon
Star TV, which is an appor a channel or a network, whatever
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you want to call it. It'san OTT. I just learned that today,
guys. It is available on Rokuand Chrome all the places where you
get all the things. If youcan get Netflix, you can get Canyon
Star TV. Yes. Now thislaunched January of twenty twenty three, is
that right, January twenty seventh.Yes. Why the name Canyon starts ev
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because I ran this by Kelly.As soon as I thought about it,
I like my name and all ofthat, and I thought, okay,
this is going to be really ifyou want to call it an American a
lifestyle type of network, okay,with everything in it. And so I
thought, okay, Canyon Okay.So I thought of my name, and
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I forget what else I was thinkingabout where I came up with the star,
but I just thought Canyon and Starit originally you know the parent company
as Canyon Star Network, but wedo business as Canyon Star TV. So
I called Kelly and I said,what do you think about Canyon Star Network?
This was over five years ago.She says, I love it.
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So it was born just a fewyears ago. We decided to change to
Canyon You start TV as the presenceon one. Now, Kelly, when
you got that phone call, didyou say, she said, oh no,
not him again? Did you say, Joey, Well, I was
really thinking Kant's Star TV. Youknow what I gotta say. I often
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think I could do my own network, of course, but I would never
call it Kans myself. I thinkKenyon Star is great. I think it
just sounds good, and I likethe idea of it being a star because
you can use the star in somany ways on you know, lower thirds
or whatever. It just visually itlooks good like that. It sounds like
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the bulk of the work to getthis thing live happens kind of all at
the end. That's just how allprojects are, right. Things gradually built
up and then right at the endthere's this huge push and there's a whole
bunch of stuff to do. Howdid COVID affect all of that getting the
network put together? It didn't.It didn't, I have to tell you.
Listen, A lot of stuff cameout of COVID that was bad for
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a lot of people, but alot of things were good for people because
people had to figure out how tomake a living. People had to figure
out how to do things, whichcreated more podcasts, They created more radio
shows. It created more small personlearning how to create TV shows. So,
you know, while it wasn't negative, I think It was really an
interesting way that people tried to figureout how to live. A lot of
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stuff was produced and came alive duringthat time that probably never would have happened
if there wasn't COVID. Necessity isthe mother of invention, so it's exactly
what happened. Do either one ofyou know who is the father of invention.
I'm just curious the father. Ican take a guess. Okay,
go ahead, Leonardo da Vinci,Sure, why not? I have no
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idea. I was just curious.Check him out. I love it.
I'm gonna go with that one becauseI don't have a better answer. And
that dude was rad. He inventedso many things. You'll be astounded.
No, you'll be astounded. Heinvented the helicopter. That's crazy. Well,
that's correct. I know that's nuts. So info at Canyon Star dot
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tv if any if you have anybodythat has interests and wanting to add programming,
it's contact at Canyon Star dot tv. And that's if people want to
submit or have questions or anything likethat. It's just contact at Kanyeon StarTV.
Yeah, Canyon Star dot TV.See look, I'm messing it up
to man, Yeah, we're nota dot com, We're a dot TV.
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We're a dot TV. Yeah,that's gonna be your slogans. You're
gonna have a t shirts to say, Canyon StarTV we're dot TV. Yeah.
Tell me three things, Kelly,as far as programming that you think
are really going to knock off thesocks of everybody listening. Listen. I
have a show called Hidden Heritage.It's it's one of my very favorite shows
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on the network. It is worthtaking a look at. It's the story
about a man whose parents died.He had been adopted in Minnesota, and
he was one of the Native Americanswho was taken as a baby and adopted
off And after his parents died,they were going through the attic. His
wife found his adoption papers. Henever knew he was Native American, and
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he knew he was adopted, buthe found out he was Native American and
they found his family. And itis a show about the discovery of you
think you're this, and all ofa sudden you find out you're this,
and how do you blend those together. It's beautiful. They have a band
called Brulet, which is Native Americanmusic and it's I don't know, I
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just I find it really a touchingshow. You know, I really loved
that show. I have a sportsshow on here that I think is fantastic
too. It's called From Glory Days, and I love it because Kurt interviews
people on this show, his nameis Kurt David. He interviews sports figures
that made a lot of money andyears later, how do you still have
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money? Did you blow it all? Did you spend it all? What
did you do to keep the moneyand be successful? In its interviews with
famous sports figures and how they havesucceeded in this life after sports was over.
So I love that one too.That's a real good one. Nice
Joey, give me a couple.What are your tops? Get me excited?
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Well, I'm very blessed that thehighest ratings of the network is my
TV show. So I kind oflike that guy. What's that called?
Is that called the Joey Kenyon Show? It is? How did you come
up with that night? I'm justkidding, you know, it took me
a long time. I just itjust came to me and it was a
(31:48):
revelation. I just you called Kellyand she was like, well, I
was going to call it the Kellycan't show but okay, yeah, exactly,
so that I'm very blessed with that, truly, am. There's thirty
nine episodes for you to watch.And then you know, it's really with
the fun part that Kelly and Ido bringing on a content every day.
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It's the flavor of the day.I mean what She'll call me and say,
hey, guess what I've got.So I go and look at it,
and I'm oh, that's my favorite, and then this is my favorite.
But I have to say that it'sthe variety because I really like classic
television. I love Ozzie and Harriet, I like Dragnet, I like these
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kinds of shows. I really loveour faith category. So those are favorites,
believe me. Of cooking shows areso much fun, and course Brulet
I really really like. But otherthan Prejudice being my show, I can't
give you. Every day is different, Steve, and I'm glad that it
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is that I could change every dayalmost nice. I'm not going to ask
about favorites, but you did mentionedthat there's some concerts. Throw some names
at me whose concerts you got onthere? I have a Portraits of Colorado
show and it's a Symphony Show.It's it's fantastic. And then I have
Brulet and I have more coming,So concerts is going to grow. But
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their boulet is really great. They'relive at Mount Rushmore, right there in
front of Mount Rushmore. It's verycool. You gotta watch that. It's
beautiful, isn't it? Yes?It is. You got to watch it
beautiful. Wow, that sounds amazing. Here's a bizarre question. Maybe where
on social media can people go toto follow and find out more about Canyon
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Star TV. Do you guys havesocial media? Oh? Big time.
You can go to Canyon Star TVon Facebook, Instagram, Instagram LinkedIn.
Those are the three biggies. HuhSo, Joey, are you are you
doing? Are you dancing on TikTok? No? Kelly, Joey, have
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I missed anything? Did we covereverything? Like? Is there anything we
didn't talk about or I didn't askyou about that you specifically wanted to talk
about today? I don't know.I think you did pretty good, Joey.
You think you missed anything? Yeah? I think I think he did
pretty good too, for his firsttime. That's pretty good. I think
really about all of this stuff,I think that you know TV anymore.
(34:29):
You pull it up and you're not. Really there's so much negative stuff all
the time in this world, andit's kind of fun to build something that
isn't negative, you know what Imean. Like every program is positive and
that's something that I think both Joeyand I are really proud of. And
I think anybody who here's your show, give us a chance. Come on,
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you know, sign up and yougot to just put your email in
and a password. It's free,there's no charge to watch the network.
Take a chance with some of theseprogrammers that you know are really pretty great
folks. Joey and I were reallyclear we weren't going to work with anybody
that was a paying basically, andwe've picked wonderful, wonderful people. They
have helped promote the network, andwe're really proud of them for helping promote
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and providing great programming for people whoare going to come on board and watch.
And so, you know, i'dlike your people come on. We
want people to go on to CanyonStar TV, Steve and be part of
our family. We want them toknow that when they go there, they're
with us, and they're proud tobe with us. And that star up
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there, that Canyon Star TV withthe star up there. That's not us,
that's them. Yeah, they allcan be a star because I want
them to feel like they're a starwith us. The star is the community.
That's correct. Now, you guysare talking about the lack of kind
of family friendly programming, punctuate thatactually by telling you a little story.
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There was a TV show that wason major network, regular broadcast network available
to the masses. It was onfor I don't know, like eleven Caesars
or something. I think it wascalled Brands. I don't know if you
guys have watched Friends recently, butmy wife and I started rewatching it again
and I was blown away at howunfamily friendly that show was. And that
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was just a regular TV show thatthe entire country watched every week. It's
just amazing that, like the storylinesand some of the subject matter. I
just like pause, and I lookat my wife and I'm like, oh
my gosh, everybody could this wasjust on regular TV? Like what in
the heck? Now they didn't saybad words, but the subject matter and
some of the storylines, You're justlike, what it's the innuendo and everything
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and You make a very valid pointbecause way back then when that was going
on, that was broadcast television.I don't know one of the three bigs,
you know, big ones. Theylet that d and that was the
beginning of the end, because fromthere it followed more and then it got
more provocative as the years went by, and then more and more. Then
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it started getting graphic and so on, and now it doesn't have to be
broadcast. You can go to streamingnetworks and you know which ones they are
out there that you look at itand you wonder, how is that able
to be out there? Even forthe commercials these days? Oh goodness,
gracis commercials. You're so right,Kelly. But let me not point the
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finger here. People have the rightto go watch whatever they want to,
Okay, if you don't like it, you can change the channel. It's
about choices. It's about choices,and you can do the choices you want.
We just want people to know thatCanyon Star TV is a choice for
your family and it's friendly and that'swhat you'll get. And you know what,
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if you don't like us, youcan change us too. But I
think you're gonna like us so well. I couldn't ask for a better pitch
and a great note to go outon. He founders of Kenyon Star TV
CEO Joey Kenyon President Kelly Cants,thank you both so much for taking the
time out of your busy day andyou're a hectic programming like crazy schedule to
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hang out and let us get toknow you a little bit better and to
help us get to know a littlebit more about Kenyon Star TV. I
really appreciate both of your times,and you, guys, have a great
rest of your week. This isgoing to be amazing. I'm so excited
to go put this on all ofmy TVs right now. Steve, thank
you. We're glad, both ofus. We're glad to be with you
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today, truly, thank you somuch. The pleasure was all mine,
and y'all I have a great restof your week you too. Thank you,
Thank you, Thank you, Steve. Bye bye, guys. Opening
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