Videon Cable-tv - 1987 Pay-tv Packages

When Videon Cable-tv finally upgraded its cable system to 35-channel capacity, it was able to offer more channels. This clip explains the different packing options available at the time. September 1987.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Videon
• Winnipeg
• 1987
• pay-tv

[dnm728]

The background music is "Industrial Disease" by Dire Straits (1982).

[jaworskij]

Thanks.

[whoo689]

In 1987 cable only gave you about 7 additional channels?? wtf? now you get at least 50 or 60 total channels with cable

[whoo689]

Much Music channel has been around since 1987?? I thought it was new! wow Wtf is financial news network? is that what "bloomberg" used to be? never heard of it

[ipromisenot]

This is when they upgraded from notch-interference filters (170 & 171 mhz) to the addressable Zenith-PM/PZ descrambler.

Such a nice hackable box.

I doubt anyone still uses that system anymore.

[zmannn]

my life was never the same in the fall of 87..finally after a 3 year wait, being able to watch MuchMusic and TSN. It was only on Cablevision up until that time.

[palmercomm]

And you can get all those for free now.

[moznico]

I know! I thought MuchMusic was a mid or late nineties thing.

[Jtaylor1]

I didn't know MuchMusic (now Fuse) still exists in the 80s.