[78-L] The Peacock Network

[David Lennick]

We didn't even bother getting a color set till the early 80s..frankly I didn't 
like what I was seeing, even in closed circuit demonstrations. When I went to 
my CBC gig in Edmonton, my furnished apartment came with colour TV. Very washed 
out. Cable looked pretty miserable on subsequent receivers and on every system 
as well (Rogers, Shaw etc) but that was all there was.

This retro intro may have been there for a while. In Canada, the Canadian 
transmissions of network programs are substituted on the cable systems (yeah, 
we don't like it either..among other things, it means that nobody up here gets 
to see those million dollar Super Bowl ads) and only when the Canadian station 
or network is running something else does the American feed get picked up, as 
in the case of Lawn Norder Friday evening.

dl

martha wrote:
>    Nostalgic feelings caused by being bought by a cable entity, maybe ?
> 
>  Your message brought a memory to me;  of being taken to our grandparents' 
> house when there were color kiddie specials!  We had only B&W  - color 
> didn't arrive at our house until Apollo 11 arrived on the moon  (just in 
> time to see the B&W images from space)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 11:22 PM
> Subject: [78-L] The Peacock Network
> 
> 
>> Anyone noticed a lot of feathers on NBC lately? Tonight's Law & Order (a 
>> rerun,
>> no less) began with "The following program is brought to you in Living 
>> Color on
>> NBC", a phrase we haven't heard since .. what, about 40 years ago? And 
>> feathers
>> floating during a network break where someone in Buffalo didn't insert a
>> commercial.
>>
>> dl
>