Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.
because back then, your option for tv was… antenna. Period. Rabbit ears or an aerial on the chimney. (And yes, I am old enough to remember when the fancy tv options were available over an aerial with a motor on it, that you rotated to pick up different regional area broadcasts. Oooh!) If you wanted cable tv, you had to get an actual physical cable run to your house. All the other delivery options have now just sort of glommed on to the term “cable.”
Apparently you fail to get the point. That cable is just a different means to receive similar content. And that different laws for either are nonsensical.
They haven’t. Cable news is still CNN, Fox, etc. Streaming is streaming. Nobody calls their local broadcast station cable news, even though they likely get it via cable.
because back then, your option for tv was… antenna. Period. Rabbit ears or an aerial on the chimney. (And yes, I am old enough to remember when the fancy tv options were available over an aerial with a motor on it, that you rotated to pick up different regional area broadcasts. Oooh!) If you wanted cable tv, you had to get an actual physical cable run to your house. All the other delivery options have now just sort of glommed on to the term “cable.”
Apparently you fail to get the point. That cable is just a different means to receive similar content. And that different laws for either are nonsensical.
They haven’t. Cable news is still CNN, Fox, etc. Streaming is streaming. Nobody calls their local broadcast station cable news, even though they likely get it via cable.