Community Television Interactive

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Community Television Interactive was a television station owned by Staten Island Community Television. It was known in the 1990s but Community Television soon after was run under new management in which got rid of CTVi in the early 2000s. It was basically an interactive television show that was on almost 16-20 hours a day in which people called in and participated in a wide variety of games and puzzles and made choices using the push buttons on their telephone. Because this was a public service, you had a limited amount of time until the next person that called would get a try. It was only broadcast on Channel 56, which is still around but is now merely a video bulletin board posted by CTV.

Many of the puzzles required strategy and knowledge based on what you were playing. Some of the many puzzles and games were the Sports Trivia in which a sports related question was given and you had a limited time to answer. If you ran out of time or selected the wrong answer, the word "WRONG" in big letters would appear on the screen, and your session would end.

Another of game of the brain teasers category was the Multiplication Quiz. You were given a certain amount of rows and columns in which were filled with pictures. You had to count the number of pictures in one row and the number of pictures in one column and multiply the numbers and submit the correct answer before time ran out. For example, if there were 8 rows of pictures and 4 columns of pictures, you would have to count the pictures and eventually come up with the correct answer, in which this case is 32.

One of the more weird and creepy features of CTVi was the interactive stories in which you were put in a situation and you choose what happens next. You would read a part of the story until you came up to a point in which you had to make a decision for what would happen next, at which time you were asked "What Do You Do?". Your choices would either lead to a happy or sad ending of the story.

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