[PRCo] Re: impact of TV

Ken & Tracie kjosephson at sprintmail.com
Fri Oct 10 12:25:48 EDT 2003



"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> If I remember the original promise of cable TV correctly, it was that people
> would willingly pay for TV without commercials.  But it was also to provide
> uniform reception.  If I watched TV, I'd have to have cable, since my house
> sits on the back side of a hill that interferes with the Pittsburgh

Thanks, Ed. I had read that during the 1950s and into the 1060s, the original
application was exclusively to provide uniform reception.



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