There really was a "TV on the porch" after which this channel is named. At an extremely modest little house (next door to the waste treatment plant) was a late 50s black & white console which stood facing the road to the north bridge. It was weathered but faithful. Weathered because the porch in question was not enclosed. But faithful to be sure, as there was a period of years circa the late 70s when most any evening that we drove toward the north side, as we rounded the curve, sure enough, they'd be out watching that old TV on the porch. As of June 2009 all such sets are functionally obsolete. Or are they? Over-the-air broadcast of the signals they were designed to receive have mostly ceased, but if there is cable TV...if there is a converter box...if there is an RF modulator and a video source!...then classic TV sets still await the opportunity to show pictures again.