The Glenn Slingerland Situation is a half-hour weekly late night "television" program, broadcast on Sunday nights worldwide on global channel YouTube GSSTV. Previously, it had a nine-year run on network broadcast affiliate WNYA MY4 in Albany, New York, and was seen throughout eastern New York State and Western New England.
The program made its regional debut in 2002, then moved to WNYA (2003–2012) and is based on a long-running radio program (of the same name) that was broadcast on several different radio stations in New York State from 1987 through 2002. The Glenn Slingerland Situation is based in a fictional "broadcast alley" and showcases new music. Among the musical artists often featured in the Situation format are Phantogram, Jack Bruce, The Thievery Corporation, Tony Levin and Porcupine Tree.
The program features a rotating cast of women, wearing black outfits and sunglasses, who are mysteriously transported out of the broadcast alley, often into other industrial landscapes. In addition to the black garb and sunglasses, a mysterious small wooden barrel has become one of the show’s trademarks.
The program stars the sunglasses- and headphones-wearing host, Glenn Slingerland, who provides brief monologues and interviews. It also features a weekly regular contributor, comedian Aaron David Ward, whose weekly comedic observations have been described as "Andy Rooney on Acid." The Glenn Slingerland Situation has won several area arts and entertainment awards (as did the original radio version) is based in Albany, New York, and continues to air on Sunday nights at 11pm Eastern Time, closing out the weekend right after prime time. The program has become known for its weekly closing line, "The weekend’s not over till we say so."