Blog – New Ellijay Television

Posted on September 3, 2025 by ajroach42

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Appalachian Football Central is BACK, Y’all! Season Two is Here!

That’s right, the fan-centered football frenzy you love has officially kicked off its second season!

🏈 Get ready for more recaps, more analysis, and more of the Roadshow hitting the road to bring you the heart and soul of East Coast college football.

Our first episode of the new season is out NOW, and you can catch all the action right here:

This time around, we’re switching things up! Instead of weekly episodes, we’re going monthly, which means we’re packing even more goodness into each show.

You can catch Appalachian Football Central on:

The New Ellijay Television Live stream or Roku App
ETC Cable on Channel 176 for our folks in Blue Ridge, Ellijay, and Jasper
Online anytime on our Video on Demand (VOD) platform

We Want to Hear FROM YOU!

The Roadshow is nothing without its fans! We’re taking this thing on the road all season long, and we need your input. Follow us on Instagram and Threads @appalachianfootballroadshow and let us know:

What do you think about the season so far? 🤔
Where should we take the Roadshow this year? 🗺️
What should we cook at the tailgate? (We’re hungry for ideas! 🌭)

Let’s make this season the best one yet. Thanks for your support, and as always… GO PANTHERS!

P.S. For our fans of the weird and wonderful—don’t worry, more of The Hastening, Behind The Curtain, and our other wild shows are in the works and coming your way soon!

Posted on August 17, 2025August 17, 2025 by ajroach42 — Leave a comment

Announcing “What’s Stopping You?” – A New Original Series on New Ellijay Television!

New Ellijay Television (NETV) is thrilled to introduce our latest original series, “What’s Stopping You?”—a fresh, thought-provoking show produced right here in the heart of Ellijay at the Ellijay Makerspace.

Meet the Minds Behind the Show

Hosted by Nelson Crawford—musician from beloved local groups Holders and John Thefruitman, and producer of Working Class Music—and featuring filmmaker William X Lee (director of cult classics like Treasure of the Ninja), this series dives into creativity, obstacles, and the drive to make things happen. Whether it’s art, music, film, or just life itself, What’s Stopping You? explores the barriers we face and how we push through them.

How to Watch

Catch What’s Stopping You? on:

Online: newellijay.tv
Roku: Search for Ellijay in the Roku Channel Store
ETC Cable: Channel 176 in Gilmer, Pickens, and Fannin counties

Episode one is out now, and new episodes will debut on cable, and on video-on-demand, soon.

Homegrown Media for the Community

At New Ellijay Television, we believe in the power of local voices. As a community media collective, we’re dedicated to bringing you authentic, engaging content made by and for the people of North Georgia.

Posted on October 26, 2024 by ajroach42 — Leave a comment

New Ellijay Television Now On Cable

New Ellijay Television is a local first television network and streaming platform broadcasting out of Ellijay, GA. We’re streaming online, on Roku, and we’re now available on ETC channel 176. (If you have ETC and can’t find channel 176, have your television re-scan for available channels. It’ll show up!)

We’re looking for local advertisers, with packages starting at $225/month and specials available for up to 3 months of free advertising. Email us ( Video AT NewEllijay dot TV ) or check our Advertising page.

If you’re unfamiliar with our output, take a look at our roku app or VOD service. We produce a wide variety of original, local programming including Sports, News and Events, Weather, and Entertainment. Programs such as:

a quarterly concert series at the Gilmer Arts Playhouse (“Put on a Show” with Analog Revolution),
a weekly local focused news and events show (What’s Goin’ On Ellijay),
a fan-centered college football recap and analysis show (“Appalachian Football Central“),
a music gear review program (“Working Class Music“),
a show about local history and wilderness ethics (“A Sense of Place”, coming soon),
an open-mic style variety show (“The Open Stage”, coming soon),
a sitcom about a man who hunts bigfoot (“Sasquatch Expedition with Expedition Sasquatch” (This one has gone through a couple of incarnations and started as a podcast)),
a cartoon about the crew of a spaceship in the future (“Jupiter’s Ghost” Also started as a podcast, but will turn in to something very different soon!)
a show comparing Power Rangers and Super Sentai, and exploring the history of each (Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers – 研究戦隊ポッドキャストレンジャー)
Some syndicated programming, including Captain Isotope, Democracy now (starting soon!), Cathode Ray Dude, and More.
And we digitize, restore, and otherwise archive public domain recordings including Space Patrol, Commando Cody, and lots of Silent Films, among many others. Our archival work is in partnership with the Ellijay Makerspace.

In addition to all of that, we have dozens of new programs in production, which will start releasing in the new year.

We’re so excited to open this new chapter for New Ellijay Television and to continue to serve our community, and we hope that you’ll enjoy undertaking this journey with us.

Posted on August 31, 2024August 31, 2024 by ajroach42 — Leave a comment

Announcing Appalachian Football Central!

Hello out there in TV land! We here at New Ellijay Television are pleased to bring you our latest television program: Appalachian Football Central. This is a fan centered football review, recap, and analysis program, and we’re taking it on the road (starting later today at several pre-game tailgates for the UGA/Clemson game) with the Appalachian Football Roadshow.

Check it out:

Appalachian Football Central is a fan centered program all about east coast college football. Its part of the new suite of community programming from New Ellijay Television, ahead of our cable launch in September. (That’s right, we’re coming to Cable on ETC channel 176 in less than a month! You’ll be able to watch us in Blue Ridge, Ellijay, and Jasper through ETC cable. Our Live Stream will return along with our cable launch, better than ever. We’ll announce more details and a full Launch Schedule in the near future!)

If Appalachian Football Central sounds like your kind of party, you can follow us on Instagram and Threads @AppalachianFootballRoadshow.

If you’re a fan of our other, frequently weirder programming, it will be back soon too!

We’ve got more of The Hastening and Behind The Curtain in the works, as well as new episodes of KSPR, a new program in the Expedition Sasquatch universe (Available now in early access for backers), a local history and wilderness ethics show, and some new science fiction stuff all coming down the pipeline soon.

If you’d like access to these programs before the rest of the world (including early access to Appalachian Football Central: Overtime, a special deep dive program for things that don’t fit in the main run episode) consider sponsoring us: