Remember When TV Was Free

[bobm]

Instead of watching reruns of reruns of the reruns . .. We should shout out a call to the reality show folks to follow the life and times adventures of Marshall with the Bigfoot kids exploring the Redwoods, caves and ponds of the back country. Reaction of Marshall to what happens when he serves deer and bean chilli to the Bigfoot kids. Not to mention their pranks on the boatbabes on the lake.

 

[canesisters]

Dad has one of those antenna boxes. He gets the local channels and one that is all old reruns (which he loves).
If I didn't have a roommate I would probably get the same thing. Mostly, if I'm watching anything at all, it's either PBS (love Peep and the Big Wide World, etc) or a Dish channel that shows the same old reruns that Dad's watching down the hill for free.

 

[thistlebloom]

I watch a lot of those old black and white reruns. Or at least halfway listen while I sit on the couch with my laptop. Multi-tasking!

 

[Smart Red]

Instead of watching reruns of reruns of the reruns . .. We should shout out a call to the reality show folks to follow the life and times adventures of Marshall with the Bigfoot kids exploring the Redwoods, caves and ponds of the back country. Reaction of Marshall to what happens when he serves deer and bean chilli to the Bigfoot kids. Not to mention their pranks on the boatbabes on the lake.

Kind of like Duck Dynasty without the ducks?

 

[897tgigvib]

There's a dynasty of ducks somewhere?

Our Moorehens are trying to survive another hunting season. I always root for the Moorehens!

 

[Smart Red]

I see (as I had expected) that I am in the best of company. My television -- such as it is -- is FREE. No way I would pay for what I see on free TV or on my neighbor's $100+ a month satellite programming.

Yes, DH likes the oldie reruns (me, too) and in the evenings we watch a lot of PBS where we get three channels to choose from: regular PBS like what the neighbor pays for, a Wisconsin centered PBS station, and Create, another PBS station with gardening, cooking, knitting, and other craft shows as well as plenty of travelogs.

We currently get 22 channels of free TV -- most of them duplicates down to about 14 channels -- and now three of them are oldies. The newest runs those 40's to 60's movie golds with Bogart, Taylor, Doris Day, E.G. Robinson, all the greats from black and white movie days. . . if I was so inclined. That channel is reserved for sleepless nights.

 

[Smart Red]

There's a dynasty of ducks somewhere?

Our Moorehens are trying to survive another hunting season. I always root for the Moorehens!

Don't get nasty with me, Marshall Smyth! I've seen those tee-shirts with bearded duck hunters. . . . I've heard the media fuss over some better-left-unspoken P.I. words that sounded relatively okay to me. . . . so I've never seen the show either. That doesn't make me modern media illiterate.

 

[897tgigvib]

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[Rhodie Ranch]

There would be NO TV here if we didn't have cable or a dish of some sort. Too many mountains and not enuf towers.

I was just thinking about this the other day - when we didn't have to pay $135 a month for TV or internet (which wasn't invented) nor did we have to pay for a cell phone. When my last kid was born (23 yrs ago), we could only afford a pager, which gave DH about 30 min to come get me and get to the hospital before son popped out.

I'd be about $4000 richer every year if I didn't have to pay for this stuff.

 

[Just-Moxie]

We disconnected back in 2010...when DH and I bought this property. Now we have antenna and netflix. Good enuff for us...we spend more time on the net anyways