It was around 1985 we moved into a new home with a BUD already in the back....it was no smaller than 10ft
First channel I "discovered" was the USA channel on either G1 or G4 (leaning on G1, Channel 4), "Heatcliff" cartoon would play around 5pm weekdays, followed by Mask. Couldnt wait to get home after school....late one weekend night, I discovered Nick at Nite (Mr Ed, Car54, Leave it to Beaver, Munsters etc)..I remember how pissed the old man was when he came downstairs at 5am and I was still up.. "Willllllbuurrrr!"
IIRC, some of the satellite names programmed were G1, F1, F2, F4, S1,E1, E4 etc...of course, being a boy.. didnt take too long to discover American XXXtasy on S1. The old man, who never was the genius, put a parental lock on "1-2-3-4" on the receiver to lock it out.
Those were the days...80s Mike Tyson fights w/ Trump at ringside, WWF PPVs/Close Circuit (Summerslam when the Ultimate Warrior beat the Honky Tonk Man in seconds). Remember watching WWF house shows from MSG (MSG Channel) and Boston Garden (on NESN)... those events were carbon copys events of one another (Hulk Hogan vs Rick Rude in a steel cage, same script... just identical). All our friends came over for the Donny Lalonde/Sugar Ray Lenard fight since PPV, or "Close Circuit" wasnt in our area....Also, countless hours watching out of market Hockey, Baseball and basketball....and porn...also, I'll never forget seeing Dan Rather pick his nose during a commercial break.
Out of sheer boredome, I use to do a factory reset on the receiver and reprogram all the sats (by memory) one by one... took about 10 minutes.
Once the signals became scrambled one by one...then came our new receiver, GE w/videocipher2... cough cough purple chip. :dev
Win, lose or draw... thanks Titanium..this brought back some awesome memories.
Cheers, K