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On 11/30/2024 2:11 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
> We lived about halfway between two large cities, about 40 miles each way
> and used an outside antenna without a rotaor.  The upper vhf antenna was
> pointed to one town that had the high channels and the lower vhf antenna
> was pointed to the othe town that was about 180 deg fromthe first one.
> To get one of the stations I had to go outside with a pipe wrench and
> turn the antenna pipe that was about 20 feet tall to get it.

As a kid, we didn't have an external antenna.  So, all the joy of
having someone stand by the antenna (rabbit ears or bowtie) and
tweak it... then step away... then tweak it again, etc.

> I get somewhere around the same 60 to 70 channels on my tv with the
> outside antenna. Have to devide that by 3 or 4 as each station has that
> many sub channels.

Yes.  Not to mention the channels that seem to actually be clones of
each other:  "Wait, wasn't this show on that OTHER station just two
seconds ago as I channel surfed past it?"

> With the dish network I get about 200 more with the
> package we have. And like you say still shit to watch unless you watch
> some of the older stuff from the 1950 to 1980 TV shows but before long
> all you get is reruns of them instead of more shows. One station runs
> the old Star Trek series off the origional and 3 off shoots of it over
> and over.

A station here runs X Files.  It seems like all day long!  Sheesh!
Couldn't they find something less boring??

Another seems to be all "westerns".

And, any NEW material is beaten to death just so the folks don't
have to come up with a NEW original idea!

I recall watching _The Lost Room_.  In an early episode, they mentioned
"There are 100 artifacts" -- which suggests they are hoping for 100
episodes!  <frown>  (I doubt they could come up with ideas for those
100 artifacts!)

The show ran for *6* episodes.  I recall thinking, "Gee, TWO more
would have been nice -- but FOUR more would have been boring.  I
guess it's good that they stopped at six!"

We watched the UK version of _Ghosts_.  <shrug>  Tolerable.  AND IT
CAME TO AN END.  We have NOT watched the US version as it is
likely considerably worse AND THE STORY STILL CONTINUES (far too
many episodes -- that are likely NOT original!)