I never watched much basketball, outside of NBA/NCAA playoffs. It was like watching paint dry, as you said.If someone was playing, you could get it. I used to watch a lot of baseball. Never got into the NFL much. Hated basketball. It was like watching paint dry. Loved watching Hockey out of Canada, and Curling. I don't know what I found so interesting in it, but once I found it, I couldn't change channels. You could always count on someone during a Hockey match starting a brawl. Kind of like Roller Derby.
What stuff did you watch on the big dish back then?
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Green sheets was hosted by the late Sean Kenny. He also hosted "yellow rain" which talked a lot about VCII. SelecTV went off the air due to money troubles in the summer of 89. They were owned by Amway at one time and was at one time the sister channel to the Starion Movie Channel. I may be wrong but starion became what we know today as Encore which launched in April of 91. I'm going on memory, but some how there was another group tied to Station called Touchstone Video Network who would launch a PPV network called TVN who was the first seller of NFL Sunday Ticket.
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It was great to find new channels before they were commonly available. I remember the promo loop for the Sc-Fi Channel before it was know much later as SyFy. It began as a tease of wavering blurry images and voices with a countdown shown. Closer to the debut, you could make out the video and announcement. One of the few things probably geared toward BUD users.
TV Land was available in the clear for years before many cable systems offered it.
I used to watch many syndicated feeds a week before the local affiliates aired them.
Things began to change for me when I got my first DVB FTA receiver. Then I found things like the Nostalgia Channel. There was a crossover with 4DTV and American Life TV Network around the time RTN ( RTV, retro) TV came along. Like TV Land, airing older programs.
TV Land was available in the clear for years before many cable systems offered it.
I used to watch many syndicated feeds a week before the local affiliates aired them.
Things began to change for me when I got my first DVB FTA receiver. Then I found things like the Nostalgia Channel. There was a crossover with 4DTV and American Life TV Network around the time RTN ( RTV, retro) TV came along. Like TV Land, airing older programs.
I remember when i saw a promo for a new syndicated show, i knew where it would be fed
My parents once said i was a genius because i watched Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy before they aired that night.
NYPD Blue was fed at 1PM on Mondays, aired on Tuesday nights. It was cool to watch it before everyone else. Also, the sportschannels were all in fixed key, so I could watch most every baseball game out there. The first thing I ever saw was a Toronto Blue Jays game on Anik 1 ITC. The video quality was excellent. I'll love to compare it to today's hd pictures, I'll bet it was right up there.
Why was some CBS NFL games VC-IB but some ITC? NBC games were always ITC, so i wonder what was up with CBS in those days?
Sometimes, news anchors or sports announcers getting mad was worth having a dish. Like for example news anchors didn't like the way they looked on certain monitors, so they would come in to the control room and ask to adjust the camera black, contrast, chroma levels, etc. That could be funny.
Personally, i liked NBC's graphics better than CBS's. For some reason, they had better looking graphics.
I had one customer who put an amplifier on the modulator out on the back of his receiver to amplify channel 3 so he could run a cable 700 feet to his brothers. He somehow had that same cable tied into his off air antenna, and everyone for 3/4 of a mile was watching the porn channels when he was on them. An old lady down the road made a comment at the local store about those filthy movies coming in on her TV.
A buddy of his overheard her and called him about what was going on so he unhooked it before the FCC got involved. His buddy knew where it was coming from because he was the only one at the time who had a satellite in the area. That was back in the days of free everything.
About all of the tv i watched as a kid was on c-band in the mid 80s till about 2000. I remember watching the feeds for startrek tng before they aired as well as several other shows. Even remember watching Bonanza in japanese or batman in spanish. My dad and i would make up our own dialog for these shows. I also remember the picture being about the best you could get anywhere even better then my buddies had with cable. Honestly once i had the time and found a dish the memories of the old days is what encouraged me to put up my dish. Its not the same as it was obviously since there is no pay service available, but its just as fun finding something new, or showing freinds that swing by the 4k feeds.
back in the day I would go over to my friends house and he would get this real cool Canada music station. It was called something like Enoc 1 or something but I remember my friend telling me the sat had a problem and could no longer get it. Does anyone remember this station?
Yes...I forget the name also....It was shown on the CBC feeds.....My kids grew up watching Under the Umbrella Tree, and Mister Dress up....
It's no wonder the picture quality was better than cable, that's where the cable and DBS providers got their signal from. Those feeds on C-Band were the master feeds and were originally meant for cable operators only. Home TVRO reception just piggy backed off of what was meant for the cable operator. Most of those feeds are still there, just no one makes receivers and decoders anymore to receive them, and the programmers will no longer sell direct to home through a third party packager.
Might be, I guess the newer version would be called Much Music, But back then their was one called
Anik 1? just does not sound right to me, Ill ask my friend.
Yeah i know all this but i just remember actually noticing the difference even back then on analog signals. Actually i read someplace that large hotel chains and some corporations could still purchase subs, but id wager its expensive, like really expensive. What we have now reminds me of the old days and as i have said before i sure wished id have paid more attention to my dad when we were working on that dish, would have made the dish i put in a year ago much easier.
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