Moon TV - hyvästi televisio (2009)

MOON TV - GOODBYE TELEVISION Television is dead! Long live television! The documentary film MOON TV - GOODBYE TELEVISION tells the amazing story of the Finnish underground and very anarchistic television channel Moon TV and it's struggle against the harsh business-driven media world. For six years Moon TV showed us that also television can be an alternative and independent media outlet. Youth, music and lifestyle channel Moon TV burnt with a flamboyant flame from 1997 to 2003. Starting as an humble chat and text message -based local channel, it became in the end a nationwide, respectable, cable channel. Moon TV was the youth's rebellion against the old ways of making television. In the tale of Moon TV there is truly all kinds of stories. The channel was known mostly for it's extravagant ways: it's often totally drunk channel VJ:s , it's porn film reviews, it's in-your-face attitude. Everything was covered that happened to interest the personnel: programs of punk, techno, heavy metal music, about big machines, different types of alcohols, computer games etc. One of the most celebrated program types were the "documentations" of different music festivals, mostly consisting of very drunk VJ:s interviewing very drunk festival goers. Although the channel was known for it's crazy antics, at the same time it was very street-wise. Nearly all of the personnel were under 25 years old and the VJ:s really know about their subjects, many of them deeply immersed into the scene which they were covering. In the end the venture company behind Moon TV got fed up with the heavily money-loosing channel. As the very marginal channel didn't get enough viewers, it was pressured to change it direction to please the greater audience. This was already to late as the channel had been hemorrhaging money from the beginning. So to the utter shock of the workers, the channel was shut down in the summer of 2003