In a 2017 interview with Video Fugue, Ted Nicolaou spoke about what convinced him to make the film: "I avoided Bad Channels for years. Charles Band kept saying, 'You wanna do Bad Channels? You wanna do this movie about a monster in a radio station?' And I was like, 'No! F**k no! I just did Télé-terreur (1986), about a monster in a TV, and it almost ruined my career!' But at a certain point, I was just like - 'Okay, I could do some little fake music videos in the middle of it, that sounds a little more interesting.' And then somehow, you resist and resist but you're in development hell for so long you eventually kind of come around and go 'Okay, I just want to work.'... We had a guy named Pat Siciliano who was kind of scouting bands for us, then they would send me to see them in their rehearsal spaces. I think I scouted a couple more than what we eventually chose, but I liked the guys that he found for us, and they seemed bright and funny enough for the movie, so we went with them."