Scroll, skip, skim, close. Nothing feels like an occasion.

Retro Bloom TV exists to bring back that feeling when watching something was an event, not background noise.

It’s not about being retro for the aesthetic.

It’s about what the old format did to us:

you sat down, you were present, you watched together.

A curated, scheduled broadcast of weird, beautiful, found, and re-edited footage old commercials, analog bumpers, public TV poetry, short docs, arranged with taste and intention.

Not infinite. Not on-demand.

If you miss it, you miss it. The rarity is the point.

Retro Bloom comes from the glow of old CRT screens — that soft bloom around bright shapes you can’t fake digitally. It’s the mood in one word.

Think:

black backdrop, soft bloom glow, grain and static

gentle weirdness, not neon vaporwave kitsch

typographic “station cards” before and after each segment

Looks like TV continuity in 1993, but cleaned up and re-timed for now.

Warm, slightly poetic, never shouty.

Lines like:

“Previously, before the internet.”

“Recorded for someone who’s gone now.”

“Broadcast ends at midnight.”

“You had to be here.”

Feels like a friend showing you a tape they found in an attic.

Retro Bloom isn’t nostalgia - it’s a reaction to overstimulation.

People crave slower, finite, ambient culture they can actually feel instead of consume in bulk.

This could evolve into:

Limited weekly “broadcast nights”

Pop-up screening events with live intros

A library / archive subscription

Merch with old station ID cards