Despite its financial woes, Channel 17 in Buffalo is still coming up with some amazing programming it presumably purchased before the cutbacks. The latest two are coming on Tuesday, August 12th.

At 8 PM, fans of the Canadian band Rush can see them in concert on a show called "Rush -Time Machine Live In Cleveland." Here's the program description from the WNED website:

It "captures their April 2011 performance at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena, a tribute to the city that first played their music on the radio. The concert features "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," and "Closer to the Heart," among many others." They perform their 1981 LP "Moving Pictures" in its entirety.

I'm not a huge fan, but if you are this is one way to see the band with the late Neal Peart as they used to be. 

Far more interesting to me is the special that follows at 9:30 PM. It's called "Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision." You don't have to be a Hendrix fan to be intrigued by the premise - it's a look behind the scenes at the recording studio the legendary 60s icon established to record his music. 

Again, from the WNED summary:

"Rising from the rubble of a bankrupt Greenwich Village nightclub, it became a state-of-the-art recording facility inspired by Jimi Hendrix's vision, the first artist-owned commercial recording studio.

The program includes track breakdowns of Hendrix classics such as "Freedom," "Angel," and "Dolly Dagger," plus interviews with original Electric Lady staff members and musical collaborators."

That one airs at 9:30 PM.

Given WNED's current desperate straits, I would expect a lot of pledge breaks during both shows.