RE: V66 (WVJV-TV)

[Cooper Fox <fox893@yahoo.com>]

Just how many independent cable or broadcast video
networks exist?  How did exist?


--- SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com> wrote:
>   Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
> 
> >I believe V-66 could probably have lasted only a
> couple of years anyway, as
> >most all of Boston was wired by the late 1980's for
> cable (Wasn't the Back
> >Bay the last neighborhood to get Cable, around
> 1990?). Once all of the city
> >was wired, V-66 would not have been a viable option
> IMHO.
> 
> 
> Wouldn't it still have been a "must carry" station?
> 
> Another factor, though that would have hurt V-66 was
> a lot of the record 
> labels giving MTV exclusivity on many videos...often
> the superstar or hip 
> acts, leaving the independents with a lot of
> second-tier stuff.
> 


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