Orion Area Neighborhood Television took a giant leap out of their territorially comfortable zone.
Starting’Wednesday, Dec. 10, ONTV will be providing a series of travel videos on channels 10 (Comcast) and 99 (AT&T) from a handful of European countries, including Greece, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Italy.
The videos were shot and edited by Ralph Painter, President of ONTV, and his wife Mary Painter in early October.?
One such video covered in Athens, Greece covers the Acropolis and all of its features, including the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Theatre of Dionysus.
The Olympic Coliseum is also covered in detail, along with the Ancient Agora, a shopping area originally built in the 5th’and 4th’century B.C.
There are tons of stories to tune into. Check out the Meteora Greek Monasteries, a story on the six monasteries constructed on natural sandstone pillars in central Greece and the Theopetra Cave’one of the oldest known man-made structures in the world from 23,000 years ago.
Other stops along the Painter’s way include coverage of the magical island of Santorini, and trips to Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia.
One visit to Ephesus, Turkey struck a resonating chord because it included footage of the last known residence of the Virgin Mary’her house and grounds’as well as several other artifacts built by the Greeks and Romans between 500 B.C. and 400 A.D. including the church and tomb of St. John.
The Painters did not leave out Istanbul, Turkey from their travel adventures, and captured the Blue Mosque, the Hagia Sofia, and the Grand Bazaar’the largest covered market in the world. Another video also captured’the Bosphorus waterway to the Black Sea.
The culmination of the trip took the Painters’to Venice, Italy, where they spent much of their time visiting the famous Murano Glass Factory and St. Mark’s square, including meandering trips around the city’s comprehensive waterway network.
For more information about the new travel TV series, visit the ONTV website’www.orionontv.org’or contact the studio at?248.693.3377. The videos will be aired into January, 2015.