BK From WV
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Post by BK From WV on Jan 4, 2015 1:21:49 GMT -5
Had about 17 or 18 channels. Only ones I watched were ESPN, ESPN2, Cartoon Network, and TBS (for Atlanta Hawks games and WCW Saturday Night/Power Hour) and WGN (for Chicago Bulls games). Would occasionally watch Discovery Channel or Showtime.
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ededdneddy
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Post by ededdneddy on Jan 4, 2015 3:15:03 GMT -5
I had channels 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 23, 32, & 50 until late 99 when my dad finally got Satellite. We lived off of PBS, Kids WB, Fox, UPN, and whenever they aired cartoons/specials on ABC, CBS, WGN, etc. My brother and I would always watch those 4 channels and then we also lived with whatever VHS tapes we had.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 4, 2015 3:35:48 GMT -5
Great. Satellite with all the channels. Yup, until about 1993 or so, then I started watching stuff being sent out to the networks, so there was no commercials, unless it was a national US one. It was fun watching backhaul feeds too, now that's just "Raw Off Air" stuff you find on Youtube.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 4, 2015 3:41:29 GMT -5
Any chance u was a cowboys fan in the 70's I was born in 78, so maybe in the sense that that's who my parents rooted for, but not in like a cognizant way.
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andrew8798
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Post by andrew8798 on Jan 4, 2015 3:48:05 GMT -5
Any chance u was a cowboys fan in the 70's I was born in 78, so maybe in the sense that that's who my parents rooted for, but not in like a cognizant way. Thought maybe older so I could ask u about the Cowboys song from the 70's
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 4, 2015 8:39:59 GMT -5
Didnt get cable in my area until i was 13 (1993). I do know that our cable company did carry comedy central, which at the time wasnt that widely distributed and only known for MST3K (Which i became an instant fan of when i first watched it).
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jan 4, 2015 8:54:47 GMT -5
We had 40 something channels with those dial boxes on top of the TVs. We couldn't get PPVs pr anything like that since we were in a small town.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 8:57:07 GMT -5
We had no such thing until I was maybe 11. I had heard of it, but never been anywhere with it.
It feels like we had thirty or forty channels, but it didn't matter. I just let it sit on MTV all day like a good little 90's kid.
Later on, I became infatuated with Comedy Central when I was basically just Whose Line, Ab Fab and stand up set after stand up set all day long. It used to rule.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 8:58:00 GMT -5
We had our local companies highest package.
20 channels, I remember the excitement when Sky Sports 3 launched and it was 21 channels.
Only real kids channel we got was Cartoon Network which turned in to TNT at 9pm and would just show crappy old films apart from Nitro on a friday, Raw would have a different starting time every week, so sometimes would catch none of nitro, other times would catch the first hour
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Post by paulbearer on Jan 4, 2015 9:20:00 GMT -5
"only 40 channels" He he , you should've lived in Norway in the pre-cable TV era , only 1 channel Sweden had 2 channels and if you lived in Oslo area you could prolly watch it but somehow I don't think the picture was HD exactly , lol Cable prolly did not have more than 20 channels......
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 4, 2015 9:28:44 GMT -5
I'm considering a switch to satellite myself, I've had Charter for a while and their customer service is akin to legalized torture.
Growing up it was Cablevision. Only about 40 or so channels, but so long as I had MTV, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel I was content.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Jan 4, 2015 9:35:44 GMT -5
We had On-TV through a box my grandpa built. I remember when they were going door to door selling cable. The guy got two houses away, & decided "f*** it" turned around and started heading back to the car. My dad had to run out after him to catch him and order it for us!
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Post by Secret Clown on Jan 4, 2015 9:40:10 GMT -5
English, so had 4 channels until we got Sky (satellite tv) in 1995.
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Post by CM Dazz on Jan 4, 2015 9:43:31 GMT -5
The only thing I really remember is that on a tv not hooked to a cable box it was really easy to get the WWF PPV's to come in for free. All I had to do was leave it on that channel for a few minutes for the broken screen and white noise to pass. So, I liked it just fine. We never could do that with our cable. I remember my uncle had that big dish outside and could almost get anything on there We had filters we bought from the installer under the table for HBO, Showtime, Disney & The Movie Channel
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Post by Sephiroth on Jan 4, 2015 10:00:56 GMT -5
A bit off topic, but as someone who works in that particular industry, I just have to add this in: whenever it reaches the point in the day where we have to start rescheduling work, there is always at least one person who comes out with "But I have kids, what are they supposed to do!" And I always bite my tongue to avoid saying "Well, there are these remarkable little things called books-perhaps they could try reading one!"
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 4, 2015 10:07:39 GMT -5
GLORIOUS!
We had 13 channels until 1984 when we got an expansion box for our expanded cable of 32 channels-Nickelodeon being my favorite at the time-I only wish I had watched more MTV, but at the time, I wasn't into music THAT much, and "Nick Rocks" was good with me.
It was really like a whole new world
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Post by Spider2024 on Jan 4, 2015 11:57:05 GMT -5
We had 70 channels in the mid-90's (I don't think we had every single one of the 70 channels, the channel number just went up to 70). MTV was still great, Nickelodeon was still great, USA had Raw and TBS/TNT had WCW, that's all we really needed.
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ibdude
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Post by ibdude on Jan 4, 2015 12:52:49 GMT -5
Growing up in St. Louis, cable was kinda crazy compared to other places I visited at the time. We had TCI in the 90's which had HBO, Showtime, Starz, Encore, and The Disney Channel as a premium channel. I also remember that Comedy Central and VH1 shared the same channel number so they would switch every twelve hours sometimes right in the middle of a show. We got Cartoon Network sometime in 1996 I think ,and it was soon gone in less than a year I think.
The cable lineup was different than what St. Louis County got. The company there was Charter and they had more channels than us. They had Cartoon Network longer than us, they had TechTV, etc. I was jealous lol. I also remember that in order to get certain channels you had to go on this box and press A or B corresponding to which channels you wanted.
Sometime in 1999 the cable company in St. Louis City changed to AT&T , but it was still the same as TCI.
Charter ended up buying out AT&T around 2001. That allowed them to be all over the St. Louis area and it brought every channel they offered to us. We got Cartoon Network back, we got Tech TV, and VH1 and Comedy Central didn't share the same channel anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2015 13:15:45 GMT -5
Got it in 1983, we had about 40 channels. Had the first digital converter, but no remote. So me or my brother were told to hold the button to scroll up or down. I loved the Weather Channel, I could watch that all day long. "Live Color Radar" was so high-tech for the time. Better than the weather I'd see every morning at 6:15am (after the farm report).
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Post by bibboid on Jan 4, 2015 16:58:08 GMT -5
I'm old. My cable came with one of these boxes. Can actually remember when Mtv came on the air. There wasn't very many channels. the ones I remember are WTBS, WGN, Showtime, HBO, ESPN, and CNN. That's the box we had.
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