Public access television, the gloriously amateur civic institution that gave New York Wayne’s World energy decades ago, has a new heir in Bushwick. It is one comedian, a basement, and a show about the afterlife that took a full year to make three episodes.
New York Television, or NYTV, launched in 2026 as a livestreaming network out of a basement studio in the same Bushwick building where founder Kaye Loggins lives. Its flagship is Good Morning Hell, a comedic talk show about life after death, hosted by two characters, Chip Herbsuckle and Sebastian Clamchowder, played by comedians. Before a recent studio upgrade, the show had aired exactly three episodes in a year.
That gap, between the grand idea of a TV station and the reality of a guy uploading from his basement, is the whole charm and the whole point. Loggins frames the unpolished, learn-as-you-go production as preferable to waiting for perfection, which is less a humblebrag than the actual operating philosophy of public access: ship the weird thing now, figure out the lighting later.
It also says something real about where independent media sits in 2026. The infrastructure that used to require a cable franchise and a city studio now fits in a Bushwick basement with a livestream, a web presence and a social account. The barrier to running your own channel has collapsed; what is left is whether anyone shows up to make the episodes, which is exactly the thing money never solved.
Bushwick is a fitting home for it. The neighborhood has long run on the same logic, a surplus of performers and a shortage of polished venues, and NYTV is that energy pointed at a camera instead of a stage.
If you want to watch, or you have a strange show idea of your own, NYTV livestreams under the handle nytv.live, and a basement operation that struggled to make three episodes is, by definition, looking for more people willing to make the fourth.
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