CH 01SIGN-ON
REC MIDNIGHT CIRCUIT · UHF 51 00:00:00 · SAT JUN 21 1986

UHF Channel 51 · Sign-on 00:00 · Transmitter output nominal

Midnight Circuit

A synthwave record label transmitting from an abandoned television station. Sign-on: June 21, 1986. Sign-off: never came.

On Air

Now Playing

PAGE P201 · AUDIO CH A
Album cover of Terminal Romance by Vector Hearts: a chrome-lettered synthwave sleeve with a striped sunset over a neon wireframe grid

Studio C playback monitor · signal locked

P201NOW PLAYINGMC RECORDS

MC-007 · LP · 1985 · 38:18

Terminal Romance

Vector Hearts

  1. A1Neon Interstate4:12
  2. A2Her Face in the Static3:58
  3. A3Curfew Kiss4:41
  4. A4Motel Television5:05
  5. B1Terminal Romance6:12
  6. B2Dashboard Confessional, 2 A.M.4:24
  7. B3Exit 863:47
  8. B4Rearview Ghost5:59

Recorded live to two-inch tape in Studio C. The tape hiss is structural.

Vinyl LPCassetteVHS Single

Catalog

PAGE P300 · TAPE LIBRARY
Cover art of the selected release

MC-013 · LP · 1986

We Never Stopped

Test Pattern

The newest tape in the library. Nobody remembers it being delivered.

Pull a tape from the rack below to preview

Master tape library · Studio C · six catalog entries, 1984–1986

Artists

PAGE P400 · STAFF PASSES
Midnight CircuitPass 00-07
Promo photograph of Vector Hearts: a duo lit by magenta and cyan light in a dark television studio

Vector Hearts

Romance Division · Duo

A mall security guard and a church organist from Denver who met over a lost-and-found Walkman. They write love songs for people driving alone at 2 A.M. Their master tapes always arrive rewound.

First aired
07·04·1985
Midnight CircuitPass 00-04
Promo photograph of Analog Widow: a pale woman with a black lace veil, lit by the glow of a mixing console

Analog Widow

Requiem Division · Solo

Records only between midnight and dawn, on the modular console her late husband wired by hand. Every mix ends four seconds early. She has never said why, and nobody at the station has ever asked twice.

First aired
10·31·1984
Midnight CircuitPass 00-∅
Promo photograph of Test Pattern: a figure whose face is obscured by the glow of a television test card

Test Pattern

Origin Unverified

Never signed. Never seen. Their masters simply appear in the tape library — already labeled, already catalogued, smelling faintly of ozone. The station plays them anyway. The station has always played them.

First aired
[NO RECORD]

Transmission Log

PAGE P100 · SAT 21 JUN
P100TONIGHT 00:00 — 06:00REPEATS
00:00 Sign-on · Anthem The synthesized national anthem of a nation that does not exist. As aired nightly since 1986.
00:04 Night Drive Music video block. Vector Hearts, back to back, until the highway ends.
01:30 The Hollow Line Phone-in request hour. Lines open. Nobody calls. We answer anyway.
02:00 Catalog Hour MC-001 through MC-013, played in order. Some listeners report a tape between MC-011 and MC-013. There is no tape.
03:33 [Unscheduled] Carrier only. 47 minutes. Origin unknown. Do not adjust your set.
04:20 Cathode Mass Live service with Analog Widow. Congregation: whoever is still awake.
05:12 Static Garden Slow synthesizer for the hour before light. Grown, not composed.
05:58 Sign-off "We Never Stopped" — Test Pattern. Followed by static. Followed by 00:00.

Schedule repeats. The schedule has always repeated.

We Never
Stopped

This concludes our broadcast day. It has concluded every broadcast day since June 21, 1986.

Transmitter output: nominal. Staff on duty: none.
If you can read this, you are tuned in. Stay tuned.

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