RE: Was Ch4 logo, now "Who has the oldest TV"

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Gee you'd think the ownership of Ch 38 (Storer) would make every effort get
you a superior signal on it's own Cable franchise.

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Aaron
> Read
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:08 PM
> To: bri@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Was Ch4 logo, now "Who has the oldest TV"
>
>
> At 04:50 PM 9/8/2003, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
> >(Until July 1970 when my brother and I went 50/50 on a Panasonic 9"
> >with...hold your breath...UHF....WOW! I never knew there was a
> Ch 27 or 44
> >until then)!
> >
> >Paul Hopfgarten
> >East Derry NH 03041
> >paul@03038.com
>
>
> My parents still have a B&W 11" TV in the kitchen that we got when I was
> about 6...so that'd make it 21 years old.  I have a TV in my basement
> lounge that has a date stamp of October 1970...still works, too.
>
> But both are UHF/VHF.  I think my grandfather used to have a VHF-only set
> when I was a little kid but I don't remember for sure.
>
> I do remember that I was the last kid in my grade at school to
> get cable TV
> at our house.  Suddenly WOW - more than four channels!! Although
> the irony
> was that we got better pictures from off-air reception of WSBK 38 from
> Boston than we did from the cable company's channel.  Go figure.
> This was
> in Mystic, CT...Storer Cable at the time.
>
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