Posted on 08/05/2013 9:30:03 PM PDT by 867V309
Television has been a mainstay of American life since the late 1950s, but nothing lasts forever and one CEO of a major cable company is hinting that the end of TV could come sooner than we think.
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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.
Hell, I just miss the farm report. LOL
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.
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.
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.
“Son” Malsey
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.
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.
I think short wave is alive and well. Can even tune in over the internet, :-)
It is very difficult to DF, HF comms.
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.
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.
Exactly
It’s all crap, anyway. Who needs it!
Huff Duff? Nulling?
So yeah, you can use a tuned circular loop up close.
It’s still a bitch.
Wollenwebers
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