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POSTED BY: KitchenWitchCooks on Aug 17, 2008
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Television
Ok - we all watch television and we all have our favorites programs.
Waaaaay back in the old days - we had 2 channels in black and white and we thought we had it all. When our area started a third station - OMG - what a selection.
And the programs we got to pick from - which of course were all family viewing. It was fun, entertaining and also educational.
From the Wide World of Sports to the nightly movies, and the cartoons, and half hour programming like I Love Lucy, Queen for A Day, What's My Line, the Mickey Mouse Club, American Bandstand - there was something for everyone. All those Alfred Hitchcock movies, cowboys and indians, etc. And if you saw one commercial for less than a minute per half hour - it was a lot.
Fast forward to today.
Analog with your antenna.
Cable - basic or premium.
Dish - which is like cable in my book.
Analog will give you local stations, possibly a few others. What ever your antenna can pick up.
Basic cable will give you programming/channels up to channel 99.
Premium cable has various packages for you to choose from - for a price of course.
Dish - whatever you get you get (I am not a dish person). If it storms - no dish. If a bird craps on your dish - no signal.
Well - let's talk about basic cable. Tons of channels too! But that is slowly changing.
You see - come February 2009 your analog sets will no longer work unless you buy a converter box. And that I have tons of questions about.
And now we are being forced into either a converter box for a price and whatever headaches that will give or paying for cable.
So of course, many will switch to basic cable at least. Which by the way I have and I did enjoy - until lately.
SURPRISE! Have you seen what is going on with basic cable lately?
All of a sudden all these new channels are popping up - with anything from cook shows, all types of movies, sports - you name it - and get this - they are all numbered 100+. So basic customers cannot see any of it unless they go premium.
And - what's worse - the present basic cable channels (through channel 99) are slowly changing into junk channels. Infomercials have taken over the local and basic cable stations. It's worse than spam.
You can see food tv on basic but there is one now for premium. Does that mean it will slowly move over to the 100+ channel side? Ditto with Discovery channels and History channels, etc.
And boy - what a selection of movies on the new premium channels! Meanwhile the few movie channels left on basic will show the same movies day after day, week after week and many times 3 times in a row for our viewing enjoyment. (ugh!)
So where is all this going?
And why are they taking away the analog from so many low-income families that cannot afford even basic cable?
Is basic cable going to eventually end up becoming our old local programming - complete with all the infomercials and uninteresting programming that it has evolved into?
I'd love to know just how much these cable companies have paid out to line the pockets of the "powers that be" to allow this to happen.
Am I the only one that has noticed this??
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POSTED BY: TerrieHope on Aug 17, 2008
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Its simple, KW. Its all down to "money, money, money". Or put in another way, & in one word only "Greed".
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