UHF (also known as The Vidiot from UHF in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe, Los Telelocos in Mexico, and Canal U-62 in Argentina and Uruguay), is a comedy film made in 1989. It starred "Weird Al" Yankovic, Michael Richards, David Bowe, Victoria Jackson, Fran Drescher, Kevin McCarthy, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Phillips and Trinidad Silva. The film was directed by Jay Levey, Yankovic's manager, who also co-wrote the ...
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UHF (also known as The Vidiot from UHF in Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe, Los Telelocos in Mexico, and Canal U-62 in Argentina and Uruguay), is a comedy film made in 1989. It starred "Weird Al" Yankovic, Michael Richards, David Bowe, Victoria Jackson, Fran Drescher, Kevin McCarthy, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Phillips and Trinidad Silva. The film was directed by Jay Levey, Yankovic's manager, who also co-wrote the screenplay with him. It was produced by Orion Pictures Corporation.
The film plays on a characteristic of the American television industry of the 1980s through the time that the film was made. During this period, there was a notable division between programming in the American VHF and UHF television bands. Typically, UHF stations were low-budget operations, with corresponding low broadcast and programming quality, and generally poor reputations to match. Most UHF transmitters were actually translators, used to rebroadcast network stations into...
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