[AT] A wasteland on TV

[jfgrant]

Cecil, I have "Dish Network" and it too is a vast wasteland! I was watching
TNT late last night and about every 9 minuets the "program" paused (stopped)
for 9 to 11 commercials. They have it trimmed so that if you channel
hop=surf all you will find is more commercials. The only channels that don't
have this feature are the movie channels and the pay-per-view. We do get
RFDTV which does feature antique tractors and old trucks. They also have a
LOT of horse programming if you lean toward that. They also have Willie
Nelson's collection of OLD country-western programming from the era of when
Country Music was something other than noise. I guess RFDTV is worth
changing IF you can get it. Otherwise they are all about the same a waste of
time & money.  Good luck & happy Trails!!  JG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cecil E Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:08 AM
Subject: [AT] A wasteland on TV


> I've had quite a bit of time to spend inside the past 6 weeks
> due to medical problems and have had a chance to take a look at daytime
> TV to some extent. I have to admit I never realized what a total waste
> it is and how shallow the programming has become. I can't believe that
> with 80 channels available on our TV sets, how many are pure unadulterated
> trash. I'm ashamed to admit we are paying $40 a month for this garbage
> but don't know if there is anything that can be done about it. AOL Time
> Warner is our provider and it didn't take long to figure out that they
> are plugging in literally hundreds of cheap ads daily and flooding the
> dial with them. As I was wondering about this the other day, I also
> wondered if anyone on our List has written to the FCC to see if anything
> can be done to limit ads and to try to get better programming? Sometimes
> it doesn't take much to get something going. Movies are just repeated
> over and over and over. I mean how many times can a person watch The
> Quiet Man, or Last Train to Yuma, or Gunfight at the OK Corral and not
> know every word that will be spoken?
>
> I understand that satellite TV is not much better but does not
> have all the ads. One of my friends says he gets several farm channels
> and one of them even runs programs on antique tractor shows in the
Midwest.
> Do any of you get these on your TV sets and what do you think of using a
> satellite as opposed to Cable TV?  I have to do something here to be able
> to keep my sanity. I have Time Warner RoadRunner service on the computer
> and can keep that whether I have Cable TV or not so I'm not worried about
> losing this fast hookup.
>
> Ceil
> -- 
> The nicest thing about telling the truth is you never have to wonder
> what you said.
>
> Cecil E Monson
> Lucille Hand-Monson
> Mountainville, New York   Just a little east of the North Pole
>
> Allis Chalmers tractors and equipment
>
> Free advice
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