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Article #19213Re: Supreme Court and cable TV (sigh)
From: Bill Mayhew
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1988 18:30
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1988 18:30
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The regulations require your local friendly :-) cable company to make an A/B siwtch available to you. ..So that you can choose to not watch the cable if you desire. That is how they think they can prevent a monopoly. Sheesh. Of course, the A/B switch is not necesarily free. Our local friendly :-) cable company is quite happy to sell it to you for a paltry sum of $10. There was some hope of getting access to cable-like programming though satellite DBS, but the lobbying efforts of the cable interests have pretty much squished that out of existance. Interestingly, direct-to-home satellite braodcasting looks like it has a chance of taking hold in europe. In europe, something like only 10% of urban homes are wired for cable, though. --Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Supreme Court and cable TV (sigh) Summary: FCC trying to watch out for us (grin) Message-ID: <1251@neoucom.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 18:30:56 GMT References: <May.25.20.28.43.1988.570@control.rutgers.edu> <1241@neoucom.UUCP> <10231@sol.ARPA> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 16