[mythtv-users] US Pay-TV loses subscribers for the first time ever

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 24 21:14:52 UTC 2010


On 24 August 2010 22:01, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 02:52:33 pm Another Sillyname wrote:
>> On 24 August 2010 21:02, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 01:08:41 pm Yeechang Lee wrote:
>> >> While San Francisco is one of the country's largest markets, the vast
>> >> majority of the population has over-the-air access in HD to at least
>> >> five of the six commercial English-speaking national networks, one
>> >> non-commercial network, one or two Spanish-speaking networks, and at
>> >> least one independent local channel, plus one to two dozen
>> >> non-duplicate SD digital channels.
>> >
>> > Yeah, yeah, rub it in. I have precisely ONE (crappy) OTA channel
>> > available.
>> >
>> > I wouldn't mind so much except I used to live in the #1 market (NYC).
>> >
>> > We are the state capital (Cheyenne), and we don't have ANY PBS station
>> > available. Even the State-sponsored "educational" network is unavailable
>> > here, a real bugger since I help pay for it.
>> >
>> > Oh well, I suppose I could always move.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> ".....a real bugger......" trace of a British background there methinks?
>
>
> Actually I was born in Connecticut, which is "New England". I also lived in Canada for a few years, probably where I
> picked up "bugger".
>
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