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'Honeymooners' Actor Frank Marth Dies at 91
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| 1/13/2014
Posted on 01/13/2014 9:45:30 AM PST by Borges
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To: Jack Hydrazine
More like free air. Broadcast was “free”, but you paid a price in quality, it had commercials. Then along came cable, and you paid directly, without those annoying, oh, never mind.
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:24:43 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Why does everyone still believe in the free lunch?
Your point is ...?
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:41:46 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
There is no such thing and never has been but people still think it exists.
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:43:29 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: Borges
From the episode 'Funny Money' where Ralph finds a large suitcase full of cash:
Alice's Mom: Look Alice, just because you're married to a horse doesn't mean you have to live in a stable.
Ralph: This place isn't big enough for you and me! Alice's mom: This place isn't big enough for you and anybody!
(seeing the large suitcase) Alice's mom: (to Ralph) What is that, your lunch box?
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:43:53 AM PST
by
JPG
(Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
And your worldly knowledge and philosophy relate to Golden Age TV, how?
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:49:38 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: JPG
Hysterical....that and “Mamma loves Mombo”
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:52:44 AM PST
by
1217Chic
To: oh8eleven
Thinking that TV is free.
First you buy the TV so that isn’t free.
Then the ad campaigns that are used on TV get factored into the price of the product. It’s is the customer that is paying for the program one way or another whether over-the-air or by way of cable.
Now do you understand?
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:53:50 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:55:16 AM PST
by
abb
To: lefty-lie-spy
You can get a lot of old Honeymooners episodes on Youtube.
Also Amos & Andy.
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:56:34 AM PST
by
murron
(Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
To: Jack Hydrazine
I’m not going to argue with ‘there is no free lunch’, but there is one channel we get on digital TV (I’m so out of touch I’m not sure if there is any other kind). For us it’s on 14.3 and I think it’s called GET TV. No commercials, ever. Just old movies back to back.
I’ve wondered who and why that channel is on.
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posted on
01/13/2014 10:59:56 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
To: Balding_Eagle
But somebody is paying for it.
Again, no free lunch.
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:04:43 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: lefty-lie-spy
There are also a lot on Youtube. There is even a “John Wayne Channel”
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:10:16 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Everything is free. Gibsmedat.
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:11:34 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Of course someone is paying for it.
My question is what could be their motivation to broadcast at what appears to be without a source of income.
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:15:18 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Now do you understand?My point was that TV programming was free back in the day, i.e., no cable bill. So simple even a caveman could understand ... but not you.
Not the cost of the TV, not the cost of an antenna, nor the burden of having to tolerate 12 minutes of commercials per hour.
But there's always one feckin' know-it-all who just can't grasp a simple concept, sticks his foot in his mouth, then tries to blame someone else.
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:30:04 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Balding_Eagle
Good question. Send an email to the broadcast provider.
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:31:21 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: oh8eleven
TV programming was not free back in the day. You stilled paid for it with the gasoline you bought, the laundry detergent you bought, and anything else you bought. The price of the product was higher because the advertising was factored into it.
Who paid for program? The advertisers! Who paid the advertising agencies to create those TV ads? The product manufacturers. How did the manufacturers pay for those ads? By adding it to the cost of the manufacture of the product(s) which you and I paid for.
See?
Plus, you have to pay for electricity to power the darn thing.
There’s still no thing as a free lunch. Never has been, never will be.
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posted on
01/13/2014 11:36:32 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Cool. Thanks for the pictures.
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posted on
01/13/2014 12:01:16 PM PST
by
pke
To: YourAdHere
I was thinking Jackie Gleason lived in Hollywood.
Seem to remember a Jackie Gleason show where he
came out and sat on a chair and apologized for
it being such a stinker and he canceled it himself.
RIP Frank
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posted on
01/13/2014 12:09:47 PM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: Balding_Eagle
I am
guessing that this is a secondary bit of bandwidth that the owner of 14 paid for when they bought spectrum. They make money on 14.1 and use a little bit of that money to buy the (now cheap) old movies to make the whole 14 package more attractive to a cable bundler.
Just out of curosity what's on 14.1?
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posted on
01/13/2014 12:34:18 PM PST
by
mwilli20
(BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
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