Then you waltzed in the door and said, “Hey Joe, I have this
idea for a train channel on the Web, and I’ve got a back-
ground in TV production. What if we could partner, where I
do the content, and you could distribute it?”
And the rest is history, as they say.
Barry:
Sometimes I feel we’re late out of the gate with TMTV.
But on other days I feel like we were way ahead of the rest
of the world, at least on the production level of the monthly
TMTV show.
Joe:
We’re late in some ways, but we’re also just getting
started, right? Between the two of us, we can dream up
more stuff than we could ever do in two lifetimes with
TrainMasters!
Barry:
Because we’re subscriber supported, that gives us some
freedom you don’t have with the ad-supported magazine.
If TMTV were a cable TV show, there would be many restric-
tions on what kind of stories we could do. Every story would
have to be vetted by the cable execs, whereas with TMTV we
“Formula production
says, ‘If it doesn’t
interest a large
audience, then we
won’t do it.’ I’m
sorry, but that’s not
the MRH way.”
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