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From: ddean@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dorothy Dean)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Public Access Cable TV
Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:57:49 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: ddean@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I have been reading the messages on this newsgroup for about a month and
haven't seen anything on public access cable tv.  IS there a newsgroup that
I missed that handles that topic?  Anyone have any recommendations?

There are a number of issues ranging from the policies of individual access
organizations to federal regulations and program topics.  

I am a producer at the local (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) public access
facility.  The facility here is run by a private non-profit group that has a
board of directors independent from the cable francise owner.  I have
produced 5 programs in the past 18 months and have another 2 in the works.
Would like to correspond with any and all who have ideas about improving
programs, handling equipment, etc.

Dorothy
ddean@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,alt.cable-tv.re-regulate,alt.news-media,alt.activism
From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
Subject: Re: Chairman, CEO, President Named at Post-Newsweek Cable
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:27:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.101401.12295@r-node.gts.org> ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen) writes:
>Here is a press release from Post-Newsweek Cable.
>
> Chairman, CEO, President Named at Post-Newsweek Cable
> To: Business Desk
> Contact: Guyon Knight of The Washington Post Co., 202-334-6642
>
>   WASHINGTON, Dec. 21  -- The Washington Post Company 
>announced today that Howard E. Wall will become chairman
>and chief executive officer of Post-Newsweek Cable Inc., a
>subsidiary, and Thomas O. Might will become president of
>Post-Newsweek Cable, effective Jan. 1, 1993.
[...]
>   Wall, 62, joined The Washington Post Company in 1982 as vice
>president and chief accounting officer.  From 1978 to 1982 he was
>executive vice president and chief financial officer of Field
>Enterprises Inc.  He was vice president and treasurer of The Dun &
>Bradstreet Corp.  from 1971 to 1978.  From 1956 to 1971 Wall held
>various financial management positions with General Dynamics Corp.
>Wall is a graduate of the University of Utah.  He and his wife,
>Deloris, have two grown children.
>   Might, 41, joined The Washington Post Company in 1978 as
>assistant to the publisher of The Washington Post newspaper.  He was
>manager of The Post's Springfield, Va., plant from 1980 to 1981.  In
>1982 he became vice president-production of The Post and in 1987 vice
>president-production and marketing.  Might was named vice
>president-director of advertising in 1991 and vice
>president-advertising and marketing in 1992.  Might served in the
>U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1972 to 1976, attaining the rank
>of captain.  He received a B.S.  degree in industrial engineering
>from Georgia Tech and an M.B.A.  from Harvard Business School.  Might
>and his wife, Diane, have three sons.
	Aha!  Obviously, two more socialist members of the
LIberalMediaConspiracy.  Worse yet, one of them previously infiltrated
General Dynamics!  No wonder their business went to hell.  >:-)>
Chuck
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   The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Why do they change channel allocations?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:32:46 GMT

My local cable company added some channels to the basic and expanded services,
but of course they didn't just add the channels into the unused slots, they
moved existing channels around as well. Why do they do this? One would think
that it would be a lot easier to keep current channel allocations as they
are and just add the new ones in on empty slots. But then, I know nothing
about this industry other than how to change the channels.
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: YOU ALL SMELL LIKE SHHEP
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:28:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.sex.bestiality

In article <JMD.92Dec30175907@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
>
>In article <1ht176INNrch@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bm939@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jared Scott Miller) writes:
>
>   I'D REALLY LIKE TO FUCK A SHHEEP....ANYONE KNOW A HORNY SHHEP?
>   CAN I RUB MY DICK IN ITS WOOL?
>   I HATE ALL OF YOU LOSERS! I AM THE BEST THERE EVERE WAS AND EVER WILL BE.
>   TALKING ABOUT VHS, I HAV A BETA, A BETA-KAPPA-DELTA SHIRT, SHO
>   VE IT UP YOURS, MY DADDY TOLD ME NEVER TO TELL ANYONE THIS
>   , BUT I AM UNCIRCUMSIZED, ANYONE UP FOR A NIGHT ON THE TOWN?
>   PURPLE HAZE

>Looks like someone left their terminal without logging out again.

>Spidey!!!

Nah  - he just got the wrong news group. 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill@bilver.uucp
                - ..!{peora|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Sharing FM and TV Cable
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:17:52 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Dec21.000237.6699@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> peterli@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Peter Li) writes:
<In article <4614@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>
<>The cable-FM frequencies are NEVER the same as the over-the-air frequencies.
<>Think about it for a moment...yep, that's right, interference.  If you put on
<>cable the same frequency as the over-the-air frequency you can end up with
<>crap.  They will interfere with each other.  So, cable-FM always uses a
<>different frequency.  If you notice, you can still pick up the over-the-air
<>frequency as well as the cable-FM frequency.
<
<Another naive question:
<
<Why would cable-FM signal interfere with over-the-air signal if the only
<signal a FM tuner sees is the one from the cable feed ?
<Of course, I am assuming the cable company keeps its lines 100% shielded
<so that it won't act as an antenna and let over-the-air signal sneak in.
<Or is this an improper assumption of cable-tv's line quality ?

Disconnect the feed to your FM tuner, tune in local FM stations.  Notice that
you can still pick them up.  That is the reason for the offset in cable FM
frequencies.  There just isn't any shielding worth a damn for FM.
-- 
      harvard\                          spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown
Vidiot  ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
      rutgers/            INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
                                   brown@wi.extrel.com
From: laurelh@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Laurel Hellerstein)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Why do they change channel allocations?
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:10:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <1992Dec30.173246.15385@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>My local cable company added some channels to the basic and expanded services,
>but of course they didn't just add the channels into the unused slots, they
>moved existing channels around as well. Why do they do this? One would think
>that it would be a lot easier to keep current channel allocations as they
>are and just add the new ones in on empty slots. But then, I know nothing
>about this industry other than how to change the channels.
>-- 

Although this will probably change once the FCC has completed their 
interpretation of the new Cable Consumer Legislation it is my
understanding that suppliers of certain programming place demands on
cable companies in respect to where their programming is positioned
in the channel line-up.  Cable companies generally will buy programming
in packages and have to adhere to certain "requirements" to receive
the programming.  In other words... we will sell you x but you must
also take y and put and you must program x somewhere below channel 20.   

The price that cable companies are charged by those that deliver the
programs can depend on where the programming is placed on the
channel line-up.  Cost factors and appeasing cable programmers
would lead your cable company to move channels around!

-- 
  %%%%%%%%%%%%---------------------------------------------%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
    Laurel Hellerstein,Ph.D             Laurelh@titan.ucc.umass.edu
    Manager, Housing Services           (413) 545-4638
    Cable Network                       FAX (413) 545-2232
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
Subject: Re: Sharing FM and TV Cable
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:56:54 GMT

In article <4619@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

>Disconnect the feed to your FM tuner, tune in local FM stations.  Notice that
>you can still pick them up.  That is the reason for the offset in cable FM
>frequencies.  There just isn't any shielding worth a damn for FM.

  Of course, the same is true of TV.  While 20 dB isolation will provide
a pretty good capture with FM, it will be ghost city for TV.

  The actual test should be to terminate the input of the FM receiver
with the proper impedance (300 or 75 ohms), as the short segment of
cable inside is acting as an antenna if unterminated.

  In areas like this one, I doubt that one could find enough unused
FM channels to move the stations to relocate them all.  I never tried
to get FM from the cable when I had it briefly from Palo Alto, but
I had thought it was on the same frequencies.

	Alan
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: German TV "Deutsche Welle" now in USA
From: axgolinski@ualr.edu
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:39:50 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

On the 1st of November the German television "Deutsche Welle TV" started it's
transmission to North and South America.
The station now broadcasts for 14 hours via satellite. For viewers in Europe
this is more than double the viewing time, which until now, amounted to six
hours.
In North and South America, those who are intersted and who have their own
satellite antenna, can now, for the first time, find out immediately, what is
going on in Germany and the rest of Europe, on a daily basis. The program
travels in the direction of North and South America via satellite, the
INTELSAT-K satellite and can still be viewed in Europe on the usual frequency
of the EUTELSAT II-F1. INTELSAT-K is a KU-Band satellite, which is not very
common yet among direct broadcasters but will become soon. In order to make
direct broadcasting possible for individuals, the 14-hour program is also sent
via the new SATCOM C-4, a high power satellite, which only requires a
a dish size of between 1 metre and 1.50 metres in the traditional C-Band.
Parts of the program, that is sent in German, English and Spanish, is able to
be viewed via domestic television stations and cable networks. This was already
the case with PBS stations or ME/U with "Sports Report" and other programs. In
the meantime, there is a definite agreement with the MindExtension University
- The Education Network (ME/U). The station is taking over the German and
English Jourmal (Daily News) as well as another three and a half hours of
DW television programs. There are many promising  talks in progress with other
partners in the USA, Canada and Latin America.
Deutsche Welle has also been broadcasting to Africa, Asia and Australia since
the 28th of September 1992 for two hours a day via two INTELSAT satellites, in
order to make German television accessible there, with the help of local
television stations.

A  FREE monthly program guide of Deutsche Welle TV can be recieved by
writing to this address:

Deutsche Welle
Postfach 10 04 44
"W"-5000 Koeln 1

Germany

If you have any questions about the program, or technical questions write
to the same address or call the Washington office of Deutsche Welle:
(202) 393 7427

Andreas Golinski (AXGOLINSKI@ualr.edu)
From: dlukas@park.bu.edu (David Lukas)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Why can't I use the neat features on my new TV?
Summary: some vcr+ vcrs can and some can't control cable box
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:37:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University

I'm only addressing one of the "neat features" -- the VCRs
with built-in VCR+.

In article <4625@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <1h5plgINN6u0@gap.caltech.edu> paulr@hubble.ccsf.caltech.edu (Paul Ray) writes:
>
>Oh Boy, a neophyte :-)
.
.
.
><Can someone make this make sense to me.  Maybe then I won't clobber the
><next cable company employee I see.  I think my box also prevents me
><from getting a nifty new VCR with VCR+ built in since the VCR can't change
><cable channels either.
>
>If you cable box has a remote control, i.e., not mechanical, then the VCR+
>is supposed to be able to change that as well.

The VCR+ device itself can change the channels on a cable box at the
appropriate times.  However, the original poster was concerned not about
the VCR+ box but a VCR with built-in VCR+.  The first of these I saw
advertised could clearly only change the channel on the VCR tuner itself --
if you had to tune through a cable box you couldn't use the VCR+ feature
of the VCR.  Since then I have also seen ads for VCRs with built-in VCR+
that can control a remote cable box.  So you have to make sure you understand
what you're getting when you buy one of these things, to be sure it will
work with your setup.

An alternative to VCR+, by the way, is programming the box to change channels
at specified times.  (This feature is called TCP from Timer-Controlled Program
on many cable remotes.)  This is an extra step in programming to record
TV shows, but if you can read and post to USENET (or program your microwave)
you can probably handle it.  Ask your cable operator if they offer this
feature -- many provide it at no cost...

.
.
.
>Hope this helps.
>-- 
>      harvard\                          spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown
>Vidiot  ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
>      rutgers/            INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
>                                   brown@wi.extrel.com

David Lukas
Boston University
dlukas@bu.edu
From: cc203@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Stepien)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Descrambler info please!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:57:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: cc203@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I'm checking this group for the first time and apologize because I'm
sure this has been discussed before, but...

What is available in the way of descramblers these days?
What is the approximate cost?
Where can you order one?

If there is a file on this can someone please email it to me.

Thanks for any help,

David
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: smith@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Greg Smith)
Subject: Re: Public Access Cable TV
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:20:59 GMT

> I have been reading the messages on this newsgroup for about a month 
> and haven't seen anything on public access cable tv.  IS there a 
> newsgroup that I missed that handles that topic?  Anyone have any 
> recommendations?

I operate a landline dialup BBS with the support of the Alliance for 
Community Media (nee NFLCP) and National Academy of Cable Programming 
(the NCTA-affiliated L.O. folks) that deals with the issues you are 
interested in.  It is located in Champaign, Illinois.  The phone number 
is (217) 359-9118, 300-2400 bps, 8/n/1.  It has been in operation about 
7-1/2 years.

The bad news is (a) you have to have a modem and pay your own long 
distance charges to access it; and (b) as a result it's not too heavily 
used.  The good news is (c) many of the ACM/NFLCP and NACP/NCTA movers 
and shakers are seen there from time to time and (d) it is 
*theoretically* accessible to more people than only those who have a 
Usenet account.

Greg Smith N9LHI
smith@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
Subject: Re: YOU ALL SMELL LIKE SHHEP
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:13:07 GMT

Tsk. tsk.  It looks like some poor guy left his terminal unattended--again.
 
B
B
B
B
I"This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire

civilized world.  Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of

dollars to send everywhere.  Please be sure you know what you are doing.



Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny]  "


Some people just don't listen... 

David L. Leon
dleon@seas.smu.edu

Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: sbarber@panix.com (Steve Barber)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: FCC Equipment Compatibility (Was Re: Why can't I . . . . )
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:07:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <4625@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <1h5plgINN6u0@gap.caltech.edu> paulr@hubble.ccsf.caltech.edu (Paul Ray) writes:
><I just got a new TV with lots of nifty features like PIP, favorite
><channel recall, etc...  But my cable company (Cencom) is one that requires
><a box to tune the channels for you and the TV is always left on 
><channel 3.  This means all my TV does is act like a monitor with
><a volume control.

>This is one of the problems that is supposed to be taken care of by the FCC
>as a result of the new cable law.  There have been many complaints about this
>very thing.  TVs and VCRs have all of these neat features are they are all

"Supposed" to be" is the operative phrase.  A quick peruse of Section 624A
of the Communications Act of 1934 (as Amended by the 1992 Act) will tell you:
1) All the FCC is required to do is to promulgate regulations by March
   that require your cable operator to notify you of compatibility problems
   and that you may be able to get your cable box from a 3rd party, and to
   prohibit an operator from disallowing 3rd party remote controls.

2) Merely "consider" regulations that would resolve existing compatbility
   problems.  No requirement to do a darned thing.  

3) Issue a study of equipment compatibility problems by, oh, next September.

In other words, do not hold your breath waiting for the FCC to help iron
out this problem.  They may not even have the authority to do so.  Certainly
there will be much "interested party" wrangling throughout the proceedings.

People who are seriously interested in this issue should write to the FCC
and their Congresspeople.

-Steve Barber
 
-- 
Steve Barber                                             sbarber@panix.com
"The direct deed is the most meaningful reflection." - Bill Evans
Nothing I say is legal advice.  It can't be.  I don't know anything.
From: bm939@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jared Scott Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: YOU ALL SMELL LIKE SHHEP
Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:35:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


I'D REALLY LIKE TO FUCK A SHHEEP....ANYONE KNOW A HORNY SHHEP?
CAN I RUB MY DICK IN ITS WOOL?
I HATE ALL OF YOU LOSERS! I AM THE BEST THERE EVERE WAS AND EVER WILL BE.
TALKING ABOUT VHS, I HAV A BETA, A BETA-KAPPA-DELTA SHIRT, SHO
VE IT UP YOURS, MY DADDY TOLD ME NEVER TO TELL ANYONE THIS
, BUT I AM UNCIRCUMSIZED, ANYONE UP FOR A NIGHT ON THE TOWN?
PURPLE HAZE
bm939
********************************************************************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: paulr@hubble.ccsf.caltech.edu (Paul Ray)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Why can't I use the neat features on my new TV?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 01:05:52 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: hubble.ccsf.caltech.edu

Hi,

I just got a new TV with lots of nifty features like PIP, favorite
channel recall, etc...  But my cable company (Cencom) is one that requires
a box to tune the channels for you and the TV is always left on 
channel 3.  This means all my TV does is act like a monitor with
a volume control.

Being the curious type, I plugged the cable directly into my TV, bypassing
the cable box.  Now I get many of the basic cable channels, but displaced
down one channel, and HBO (which I pay for anyway).  The other pay channels
like SHOWTIME, MTV, CNN, and Pay-per-view are scrambled, but have audio
intact.

Now, why can't the cable company give me a box that descrables the channels
I want, but allows my TV to act as a tuner, instead of remapping all the
channels onto channel 3 for my TV?  And why is HBO unscrambled before
it gets to my box?  If they can decide which channels I should get
and send them to me unscrambled then why do I need the awful box
anyway.

Can someone make this make sense to me.  Maybe then I won't clobber the
next cable company employee I see.  I think my box also prevents me
from getting a nifty new VCR with VCR+ built in since the VCR can't change
cable channels either.

Maybe someone could explain scrambling too me as well.  The sound is there
and the picture is there, it just wobbles around a lot as if it has lost
the horizontal sync signal.  It seems that it would not be all that hard
to descramble, but yet my cable box is packed full of electronics.  Is
that mainly to deal with Pay-per-view?

Thanks,

-- Paul

-- 
Paul S. Ray              Internet: paulr@caltech.edu
206-49 Caltech           Internet: ray_p@caltech.edu
Pasadena, CA 91125       Internet: paulr@delilah.ccsf.caltech.edu
(818) 356-2911           Bitnet  : paulr@caltech.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: eric@hup.ucla.edu (Eric J. Splaver)
Subject: Cable tuner with A/V output
Organization: UCLA Honors and Undergraduate Programs
Date: 3 Jan 93 15:55:22 PST

I've been looking for a tuner with channels 1-99 which has A/V output.  The 
only new unit I've been able to find is half of Sony's component TV system.  
I was told that Proton used to produce them but stopped a couple of years 
ago.  Does anybody have any ideas of where I could find one new or used?

I can't use the tuner section of a VCR because of the poor filtering on the 
A/V output lines.  I've been told that the new Sony VCR's are exceptional 
but I already own 3 VCRS.

Any help would be greatly apprecoated.


 
________________________
Eric J. Splaver
eric@hup.ucla.edu
(310) 825-2768
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From: aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,rec.video.satellite,rec.video
Subject: Re: TCI announces 500 channels on its systems in 2 years?
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:52:12 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video.cable-tv
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

>suppose you could see all the TCI systems (the largest cable MSO) linked
>together,

Let's not forget that this is TCI we're talking about.  In Dallas they
require the use of a converter box and deliver mono sound.  I also heard on
the radio a couple of years ago that they were ordered by a judge to improve
their customer service -- like answering their phones once in a while.

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