Save Free TV! 1974

Promotional film warning YOU against letting Cable and Pay-TV from taking over.
Take heed friends it COULD happen!!.

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[davenwin1973]

Cable TV was great years ago when it was affordable. Now there are more channels that most of us have little interest in. More religious channels, shopping & infomercial channels, and channels that broke away from the core programming that made them famous (MTV anyone?). Now more channels, but still overall nothing worth watching. This message is holding true today, due to special interests wanting to expand broadband wirelessly. AT&T & Verizon would only benefit from this, & no one else.

[Borntocoast]

When Cable TV Came to my Hometown of Redford, Michigan in the 1980s I was like a Child on Christmas Morning. Yes, you had to pay for the service, but you were promised more Variety, and fewer Commercials. Fast-forward to today, and what do we have? Hundreds of Channels showing the same STALE programs over and over again, crammed full of commercials for products I have no interest in purchasing. Looking at this Ad I wonder how these theatres would react if they knew about something called DVDs?

[meterman432110]

ain't that's happening now?

[voglbop]

If you have a Wii and an internet browser ditch cable's crap TV now! Netflix has streaming on the Wii and for 8 bucks a month you get tons of classic movies and great TV shows. The picture quality is as good as a DVD, no commercials and it remembers where you were if you stop.

Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock, westerns, James Bond, British flicks, they’re all there. As are Family Guy, South Park, Office, etc.

It's not Free TV, but beats cable crap.

[dst104]

the broadband companies are trying to do it again by taking the DTV subchannel for more bandwidth, so that's why the major ownership companies (Media General, Raycom and their ilk) are filling them with crap like ThisTV! and reruns of public domain bad movies

[MichaelHansenFUN]

NIGHT FLIGHT

read the book BAD TV by craig nelson

[Skulldini]

Anyway, those monster illustrations were pretty cool .

[Skulldini]

Well, I remember pay TV when it first came out ( about 1975 ). And back THEN it only showed theatrical feature films, mostly then more recent ones which were originaly rated R, X, or PG, and the deal was that it showed them uncensored ( unlike with free commercial television ). It did not have several hundred channels nore feature any programs originaly created for comercial TV, like it does today. THAT was the reason people began getting pay TV, .. to watch MOVIES UNCENSORED.

[Buddy212002]

And now we pay for infomercials...

[analyzingfunny]

@davenwin1973 Dont forget that Google is testing in Topeka. I have a friend 100 miles in the country and they gave him free 5gig wifi. That means that Google already has the infrastructure in place for the rest of us. They are guaranteeing 100 percent US coverage for EVERYONE, no matter how remote you may be. That is very exciting. With wifi, and Google Voice, you have free phone. And check out TVPC for about 30 free cable channels. lolololo

[The096757]

cool drawlings. they actually look scary as intended.

i 'haven't paid for more than 6 months of cable in the past 20 years. more and more stations but nothing to watch. who wants to subsidize mtv and religious crap and non-english shows that are not worth the price. most of the music channels are hip hop and ghetto music so the problem is the programming and programmers not the technology. i don't mind commercials but their background music and goofy speaking makes me hit the mute button.

[The096757]

cool drawlings. they actually look scary as intended.

i'haven't paid for more than 6 months of cable in the past 20 years. more and more statiosn but nothing to watch. who wants to subsidize mtv and religious crap and non-english shows that are not worth the price. most of the music channels are hip hop and ghetto music so the problem is the programming and programmers not the technology.