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grumbles · 08-16-2016, 08:00 PM

Once upon a time, back in the mid 80's, pay TV finally came to Canada. I signed up for "C" Channel which was supposed to be a more "artsy" channel as opposed to the two movie channels that were also offered. Well, artsy it was with things like Twyla Tharpe's "Hot Gossip" but also other offerings like "Last Tango in Paris" which was a first to see that on TV. One of the shows was an one act play, "Rattlesnake in a Cooler". This is an angry hour long diatribe of rage and anger. The language would strip wall paper from the walls. Again, like nothing I had ever seen on TV. A few years later, I saw that the same program was being shown on my local Buffalo PBS station. What I saw was the original video with about an hour of bleeping for a soundtrack. I don't know why they even bothered. I generally skip dram presentations of PBS and wait for the shows to become available on DVD and then get them from the library or these days, grab them off the net from an international source. US broadcast television is a joke. It truly is Minnow's "vast wasteland".

In the early 70's, an small independent station, CITY went on the air in Toronto. It was located at the top of UHF band with their antenna on top of their two storey building in midtown Toronto. If you were lucky, weather conditions were just right and you held the antenna perfectly, you might be able to pick them up as far away as the city limits. To establish themselves as new and important and with the assumption that any children would not be watching after midnight, the launched "The Baby Blue Movie". These were the very softest of soft core movies and did they ever get an audience! If they had tried that in the US they would have all been in jail. Here, the worst that happened was most of the movies were panned as being really boring. There was an upsurge in the purchase of extreme fringe antennas in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY though. When CITY moved their transmitter to the CN Tower and their signal became available through Southern Ontario they dropped the Blue Movie series. Our TV programming has become almost as boring as the US now but we still broadcast things late at night that would get the station shut down in the US.

08-16-2016, 08:00 PM	#26
grumbles Addict Posts: 238 Karma: 1500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Pandigital Novel (Black), T-2 and 3, Nexus 7	Once upon a time, back in the mid 80's, pay TV finally came to Canada. I signed up for "C" Channel which was supposed to be a more "artsy" channel as opposed to the two movie channels that were also offered. Well, artsy it was with things like Twyla Tharpe's "Hot Gossip" but also other offerings like "Last Tango in Paris" which was a first to see that on TV. One of the shows was an one act play, "Rattlesnake in a Cooler". This is an angry hour long diatribe of rage and anger. The language would strip wall paper from the walls. Again, like nothing I had ever seen on TV. A few years later, I saw that the same program was being shown on my local Buffalo PBS station. What I saw was the original video with about an hour of bleeping for a soundtrack. I don't know why they even bothered. I generally skip dram presentations of PBS and wait for the shows to become available on DVD and then get them from the library or these days, grab them off the net from an international source. US broadcast television is a joke. It truly is Minnow's "vast wasteland". In the early 70's, an small independent station, CITY went on the air in Toronto. It was located at the top of UHF band with their antenna on top of their two storey building in midtown Toronto. If you were lucky, weather conditions were just right and you held the antenna perfectly, you might be able to pick them up as far away as the city limits. To establish themselves as new and important and with the assumption that any children would not be watching after midnight, the launched "The Baby Blue Movie". These were the very softest of soft core movies and did they ever get an audience! If they had tried that in the US they would have all been in jail. Here, the worst that happened was most of the movies were panned as being really boring. There was an upsurge in the purchase of extreme fringe antennas in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY though. When CITY moved their transmitter to the CN Tower and their signal became available through Southern Ontario they dropped the Blue Movie series. Our TV programming has become almost as boring as the US now but we still broadcast things late at night that would get the station shut down in the US.