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Late 70's can't recall exactly but it was at least a few years before "I Want My MTV"
Can't remember exactly but I know us being able to afford it came a decent amount after it came to the community.
Still don’t have cable where I live. I built across the road from my parents house that I grew up in. We just got internet access a few months ago. Prior to that some form of satellite tv was the only thing we had beyond the three over the air channels. We used our cell phones for limited internet. No, I don’t live at the end of a gravel road, I live on a heavily populated four lane highway.
In 1963 American Cable was a small cable operator in Tupelo, Mississippi, with five channels and 12,000 customers. The company was sold and re-incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1969, under the new name Comcast Corporation.
They started selling it door to door around 1982. My wife's family got it soon after but my dad wouldn't get it. He finally broke down and got Direct TV around '05.
I can remember my dad giving my brother and I a choice one night at the supper table in the mid to late 70’s. We could have an in ground swimming pool or a satellite tv system. They were both about the same price. The neighbors were in the process of installing a pool so we chose the satellite. We figured we could swim in the neighbors pool or the usual cattle ponds, hundreds of tv channels was life changing.
Vicksburg Video was incorporated in 1965. But I don't remember seeing cable in a home until the summer of '77 or '78. I believe the first thing I saw on cable was a Braves' game on the station that would become WTBS a year or two later.
My family got it around 1980 or so. But my dad didn't pay for it until much later than that.
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I watched the replay of the 6-3 Bama game numerous times,, on ESPN.
I did attend the game.
So, I'll say late 1979, maybe early 1980.
First internet in my house, was about 1998. ( hard line)
I did attend the game.
So, I'll say late 1979, maybe early 1980.
First internet in my house, was about 1998. ( hard line)
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Still no cable, internet or county water, but oddly enough (in spite of being in the middle of nowhere) we get decent cell service. On my other property, where I can see the lights of the nearest town from every deer stand, there is zero cell service.
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As i was racking my brain trying to remember....Ah that reminds me. I remember watching the 1981 Bama game on espn. Or at least a replay on espn.
so we had 13 channel cable at least that early in Columbus. Then sometime in the 80s we got a vcr that made it capable to go above 13 channels. MTV was awesome then. I watched every Braves game (it seemed) on TBS.
We had satellite pretty much as long as I remember. Had one of the giant dishes in the yard. At least since 91 or so.
The folks got the old big dish around 1980. Never had cable until got to state in 90. When I graduated and moved back home it's been Direct or Dish until a few months ago. Had dial up internet after getting married. Tried the satellite internet but that sucked so basically no other home internet (other than what ATT had with the phone service) for the last 15 years until fiber came through a few months back.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere. No cable. Antenna on top of the house and you might get 3 channels if the wind was right.
1977 for me. I think it was Charter Cable, but I could be wrong. That Summer I watched Cubs games in the afternoon, and Braves games at night.
ESPN had CFL, Aussie Rules Football, beach volleyball, and a slew of made up sports. And Chris Fowler hosted a 1 hour show highlighting High School sports.
HBO was awesome. Movies came on that had been in theaters barely 1 year before. But there was only 1 HBO channel, and no "on demand" feature.
And then there was Showtime and the close up aerobics....
ESPN had CFL, Aussie Rules Football, beach volleyball, and a slew of made up sports. And Chris Fowler hosted a 1 hour show highlighting High School sports.
HBO was awesome. Movies came on that had been in theaters barely 1 year before. But there was only 1 HBO channel, and no "on demand" feature.
And then there was Showtime and the close up aerobics....
The specific area of East TN I was raised in just got cable last year. My parents were one of the first in the area to get DirecTV back in the mid-90s.
I first got cable when I moved into Sessums dorm in August of 1988. Never had it at my home in Hazlehurst. My parents got Primestar sometime in the mid-90s
We have Dish at our home in Wesson area since we are out of city limits.
We have Dish at our home in Wesson area since we are out of city limits.
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