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Cable Industry to Move Away from TV Service?
breitbart ^ | 5 Aug 2013 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 08/05/2013 9:30:03 PM PDT by 867V309

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To: 867V309

Flux that.


21 posted on 08/05/2013 10:17:05 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

Just tryin to help :)


22 posted on 08/05/2013 10:19:00 PM PDT by 867V309
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To: 867V309
Thanks ☺
23 posted on 08/05/2013 10:19:29 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

true

I used to think if I won Powerball I would buy a local radio station (Freedom AM) and launch a weekly paper (the Bulletin) but I think those would be stupid ideas now.


24 posted on 08/05/2013 10:20:23 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Hell, I just miss the farm report. LOL


25 posted on 08/05/2013 10:22:04 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

I remember waking up to see a farm report on TV before the Local News and Good Morning America... timed getting up, dressed and breakfast and then school off those shows.


26 posted on 08/05/2013 10:25:31 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

We still had one here as recently as 10 years ago.
I am looking at the radio tower now.

Now it is just mostly pop country music.


27 posted on 08/05/2013 10:28:26 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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Prayers for Mal Fuller.
You can hear that he is out of it.
For those that don’t know, his some Malsey who is most concerned is disabled but bright of mind.

Mal is groggy from anesthesia.


28 posted on 08/05/2013 10:41:13 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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“Son” Malsey


29 posted on 08/05/2013 10:42:04 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Patriot Babe

Netflix, YouTube, hulu, iTunes. We primarily use Netflix. We don’t watch shows right away, opting for a whole season to come out and then watching through. And we have discovered a whole world of series, especially if you can handle subtitles.


30 posted on 08/05/2013 10:47:57 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: dfwgator

I miss the old days of shortwave too. I think we are putting all of our eggs in the “internet basket” and one day we will pay for it. I know the internet is supposed to survive an atomic attack and so on, but like anything else if you beat on it enough times, it will break. Between the internet and the NSA and so on, I see it like a modern day “Tower of Babel” where one day it can and will come crashing down. At least with shortwave or even conventional radio all you need at our end is a basic receiver, an antenna and batteries and you’re good to go. Even with AM radio, you can wait until night and get far away stations if you have to.


31 posted on 08/05/2013 10:48:26 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (I miss you Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012). Take care, pretty girl!)
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To: Nowhere Man; mouser

I think short wave is alive and well. Can even tune in over the internet, :-)


32 posted on 08/05/2013 10:50:31 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Nowhere Man

It is very difficult to DF, HF comms.


33 posted on 08/05/2013 10:57:41 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: mylife

Yeah, once you get a certain distance away, due to HF bouncing off the ionosphere and so on, DFing can be tough. They did have “Huff-Duff” in WWII though HF DFing.


34 posted on 08/05/2013 11:00:51 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (I miss you Whitey! (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012). Take care, pretty girl!)
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To: Patriot Babe

We dropped our cable, and it’s been more of a problem for me than for my husband. He likes movies, documentaries, etc. and can get all that from our Roku device with Netflix.

However, I mainly watch sports, news, business news, and HGTV. I have subscribed to MLB, which is nice, but I can’t watch my favorite teams live due to stupid blackout rules, but I miss a lot of other sports. We have an antenna that picks up some local stations, so I hope I won’t miss too many college football games. We can’t get ESPN or HGTV, though.

As for news, the only live streaming news we get is Al Jazeera. Actually, we have been pleasantly surprised at their reasonable coverage of world news. The only way we can watch Fox or Fox Business is in snippets, and it’s really annoying.

Roku just recently added QVC. I guess they became alarmed at the number of people dropping cable and satellite, so they joined Roku to catch some of those former viewers.

I would not go back to cable, though. They kept raising their prices, adding channels to their lousy line-up that we didn’t want, and by donating money to government schools, they were making us pay a kind of extra tax. Local government grants their monopoly, and in return, they raise their rates and give the money to the government schools. It ticks me off.


35 posted on 08/05/2013 11:01:07 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Nowhere Man

Exactly


36 posted on 08/05/2013 11:01:55 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: 867V309

It’s all crap, anyway. Who needs it!


37 posted on 08/05/2013 11:02:05 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Nowhere Man

Huff Duff? Nulling?


38 posted on 08/05/2013 11:03:01 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Nowhere Man

So yeah, you can use a tuned circular loop up close.

It’s still a bitch.


39 posted on 08/05/2013 11:08:25 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Nowhere Man

Wollenwebers


40 posted on 08/05/2013 11:13:15 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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