John Golitsis wrote: > Perhaps not germane to the point you're making, but when we > moved into this > house in 1974, pretty much the entire neighbourhood was on > cable. There was an > antenna here, but it wasn't connected to anything and I have > absolutely no > recollection of when it and the mast was taken down. This is > in Mississauga, about 15 miles West of Toronto. That's really early for anything other than the original CATV systems. They had been around for quite awhile by the early 1970s, in communities where reception was problematic. For example, in towns in upstate NY, far from urban centers and in hilly terrain. Did that neighborhood have some sort of problems with receiving Toronto broadcasts? In about 1970, I remember one of our profs talking about cable systems for TV distribution. It was something of the future. Then cable companies started installing cable, in this area, in 1981 or so. But when we moved to our place in 1983, the county we moved to was just getting started with cable. Didn't get cable for another year or two in our neck of the woods. And this is a close-in suburb. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.