It is a film that has given infinite amounts of pleasure to uncountable millions of people for more than 60 years. And since about 5 million people can see TCM via digital satellite TV, the picture quality should be the best available since audiences first followed Dorothy Gale of Kansas down the Yellow Brick Road. All this happens tonight at 8, with a repeat showing at 11. TCM is going all-out to make this a big fat cable event. That means attracting and keeping new subscribers.
Cable loses customers all the time and, if things go well, adds new customers all the time.
Like TCM, AMC shows mostly films made before 1960. Before movies got dirty and bloody. TCM's presentation of The Wizard of Oz will be unlike any other. The first showing will include a second soundtrack, available by pushing a button on many newer TV sets, that contains an audio description of what's happening onscreen for the benefit of visually impaired viewers. For the late showing, TCM will use that second audio channel to play, simultaneously with the movie, the famous Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon.