Re: Big purple digit

mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> However, WTBS was the *first* "Superstation" - the foirst local
> station available nationally via cable - 1977.

Was that where the idea of commercials on pay TV got started?  Since
WTBS was presumably just a regular local commercial TV station, it
wouldn't have stopped the commercials just because people far from
Atlanta could pay money to watch what Atlantans could see for free.

When I was a kid, the big selling point of pay TV was freedom from
commercials.  That it's caught on so widely *with* commercials is
proof of P.T. Barnum's dictum.
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