CBS stations return to DISH
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I have a vague recollection of, I think, Showtime in the late 70s or early 80s. We were watching "Thunder and Lightning" at a friend's house and they used aluminum foil wrapped around the coaxial cable to get Showtime!
Possibly.
CBS insists other providers are dealing in a ( I am amused at how freely this word is tossed about) fair manner....
More like being bent over a table and told to relax.......
Totally off topic but... back before they started programming 24/7 HBO used to play some music and a test card for several minutes before their first show of the night started. I recall around summer 1980 they were playing some tune featuring an electric violin which I believe was performed by Jean Luc Ponty. Anyone else remember this, or know what the song was?[/QUOTE]
When I got married in 1966 our first TV was an RCA Table model. If I remember correctly it had 2 knobs on the tuner one for 2-13 the other for 14-83. 2-13 clunked into each channel and had a fine tuning knob behind it 14-83 had no clunk it just spun until you found what you were looking for and fine tuned with the same knob. Of course back then there wasn't much above 13.
And how do we know CBS is taking the hardline and not willing to negotiate? Is it not possible Dish is being the stubborn one? Or they're both being stubborn.No...more like having your ankles pinned behind your ears.
FWIW, an article about the possible blackout in USA said they've been negotiating (unsuccessfully) for 6 months.
Cable hit our town in Columbia, PA in the early 60's.
The town is located along the Susquehanna River.
Prior to cable, we were able to get snowy reception on Baltimore and Philadelphia stations. Lancaster and Harrisburg stations were better but our antenna rotor got quite workout moving between the stations.
After cable, all stations were much better since the cable company's antennas were located on the highest point right outside the town.
I lived in Minot north Dakota in the early 70's..we got 5 or 6 channels.on cable .Minot only had 2 channels at that time..they brought in Fargo channels and a couple Canadian channels
Sure glad this thread hasn't gone off topic 
. Twiddling thumbs waiting for the AX to fall today?
. Twiddling thumbs waiting for the AX to fall today?It isn't about who is taking the hardline, it's about conglomerate ownership and holding hostage completely unrelated channels relative to the dispute. AFAIK, this is about O&O CBS locals, not Showtime which is supposedly an ala carte offering. Is Showtime negotiating for a higher ala carte fee? If not, then it shouldn't be part of the dispute.
Showtime shouldn't be part of the deal at all for the reasons you propose, but it is leverage or at least CBS hopes so. It shouldn't be part of the negotiations at all as prices for it have raised independently over the years, or at least I think so.
I just got a 1/2 price deal for Showtime which I'll hate to lose. Assuming it does go dark, I wonder whether I'll get it back after it comes back on? If not, I'll do what I was doing when the offer was made and that is keep SHO dark. At most I only watch the live boxing and a rare movie as SHO's original programming isn't worth watching imo.
I got to thinking the other day, which is always a dangerous thing! There is some good that comes out of these events and that is they make us think a bit about how much we are paying and questioning the value of the choices of packages/premiums we watch.
Unfortunately for us consumers this won't be like when the Turner stuff went dark and no one cared.
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