SCN: Re: AT&T Broadband

[patrick fisher]

I've been informed that you can get basic cable for about $12/month. 25 or so
channels. But I'm not sure which channels those are. I'd like to get public access
channel and some of the other channels as well.

I have a good signal in Greenwood. Good enough for me and I rarely watch tv. I think
what prompted me was hearing about "Professor Hopkins" movie review site on public
access (found out about it on komoradio.com). I had watched him years ago with some
other guy. They had a video store over on 25th NE. Forget the name of it, but it was
the indirect genesis of Scarecrow Video.

I liked the offbeat shows on public access, but it has been years since I have had
cable.

Patrick

--- Scot Harkins on SCN <scoth at scn.org> wrote:
> I'm with Jim's recommendation.  Where I am "basic cable" is $49/month from
> Millenium (now bought by yet somebody else).  A good antenna from Radio
> Shack is all I need, along with my VCR and DVD.  I don't get things like the
> History Channel and A&E, but I have my monthly Discover, Scientific
> American, National Geo, Readers' Digest, Mother Earth News and Texas Monthly
> to make up the difference.  Add to that the PBS fodder (News Hour, SciAm
> Frontiers, Nova, Frontline, Red Green, etc.) and who needs cable?
> 
> If you get a long-range antenna with motor from Radio Shack you can pick up
> stations in Victoria, Vancouver (BC), Bellingham and, of course, Tacoma
> (their PBS station rocks).  All that can be done for the price of a few
> months of "basic cable".  What happens after 2006, of course, is another
> matter (HDTV supplants NTSC-TV).
> 
> 
> sh
> 
> --
> Scot Harkins (KA5KDU)
> Greenbank, WA, US
> Phone: 360-678-5880
> Email: scoth at bigfoot.com
> URL <http://www.bigfoot.com/~scoth>
> --
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "patrick fisher" <clariun at yahoo.com>
> To: <scn at scn.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 11:17 AM
> Subject: SCN: AT&T Broadband
> 
> 
> > I was wondering if anyone knew how much basic cable costs in Seattle.
> >
> > I got a headache running around on AT&T's website just trying to get basic
> > information.
> ...
> 


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