didn’t have cable tv where I lived
out in the sticks turn left past the boondocks
satellite box with it, got it hooked up
hundreds of channels for free
sports, movies, foriegn language, armed forces tv
HBO, The Movie Channel, Cinemax, MTV
Nashville Network, Learning Channel (when it was worth watching)
Hit Video USA, Arts & Entertainment (A&E, again when it was good)
CBC Hockey Night In Canada
Blackhawks, Red Wings, Blues, L.A. Kings Prime Ticket
Rangers, Islanders
occasional ‘wild feeds’ - hostage situations
announcers who didn’t know
‘we’ were listening to them during commercials HOT MIC ALERT!
satellite broadcasting magazine subscriptions
Galaxy 1 and 2, Telstar 301, Satcom 1, Westar 5 to name a few
the ‘birds’ out in space
used my girlfriends’ nail polish to mark them on the pole outside
good times came to an end though
networks caught on and started scrambling signals, no more movie channels
moved to another house, took the dish with me
by that time, couldn’t pick up nearly as much
cable tv there and punching a remote
easier than going out in the yard to move the dish
didn’t have no automatic dish tuner
it became obsolete obsolete, you are obsolete
weather took a toll on it started rusting
used it to chip golf balls into at the end
found somebody to take it off my hands
don’t remember what I got for it
I miss those days though
