On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 04:30:01 GMT, buque <none@none.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:49:20 -0400, mike wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:18:17 +0100, "|--Spike=-" <|--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 17:04:36 -0400, mike wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:17:51 GMT, |--Spike=-@Home.Co.UK (|--Spike=-)
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>It's interesting hear the Welsh language spoken fluently. I have welsh
>>>>ancestors and grew up in an area of the eastern US with many towns with
>>>>Welsh names but I never heard it spoken at length. It kinda sounds like
>>>>a mix of scandanavian, german and hebrew. I didn't realize there was a
>>>>Welsh language TV station in the UK :)
>>>================================================
>>>Yep ! S4C has been running for many years (afaik), not that they air
>>>many interesting programmes though, but I don't suppose they have the
>>>budget of the BBC either, who charge us $190.00 a year Licence Fee for
>>>the very few channels they provide. (2 channels that are ANY good to
>>>watch).
>>>***************************************************
>>>* 'There are only 10 types of people in the world... those *
>>>* who understand Binary... and those who dont' *
>>>***************************************************
>>>|--Spike=-
>>
>> $190 is not bad for quality commmercial free programming. I pay more
>> than that for HBO alone. Local commercial filled TV and basic cable is
>> $80/month. Free antenna TV is long gone thanks to govt/corp collusion.
>> Add in internet and a landline phone (all 3 from one company) and we're
>> up to over $3000/yr.
>>
>> Subscription services where you pay montly fees whether they are used or
>> not (like insurance premiums) are a corporate gold mine when you
>> consider millions of customers paying hundreds a month. That adds up to
>> billions for them each month. Its mind boggling.....
>
>free antenna TV is available and better than ever. i receive 81 channels from the orlando/melbourne/
>daytonabeach antenna farm with a homemade antenna, about 45 miles away. i canceled cable in 1993
>because of shitty customer service and outrageous fees and have used an antenna ever since. back
>then you needed an antenna rotator, but not today. todays antenna digital tv is better than the
>resolution of many ofthe cable hd channels (1080i). there are lots of advertisements, and some are
>religious channels & spanish only channels, but all in all i love the fact that i haven't given any cable
>company any money in decades. not many documentaries, which is why i hang out here, many thanks
>to all the posters here
>
>there are many websites where you can put your zipcode in see if or what channels are available in
>your area and where to point an antenna
That's interesting. I tried antenna TV in the early '90s and could
only get 4 of the 7 local VHF/UHF stations. The signal was too weak
for ABC and 2 UHFs, so I went to cable. What website should I look at?
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