Alternatives to White Springs TV

January 13th, 2010

Hollywood Classics 100 Movie Pack The most common topic in the FTAList inbox for the past three months has been White Springs TV. Where did it go? When will it come back?

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How to get a free ticket to CES

January 12th, 2010

Las Vegas sunset As the last memories of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas fade, it’s time to bring up one last related thought. You can get a free ticket to the exhibit floor (where most of the cool stuff is) of the next CES. (If you want to visit purely satellite-based exhibitors, then you’ll have much better luck at the annual National Association of Broadcasters Show , scheduled for April 12-15, 2010, in Las Vegas.

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Not much FTA at CES

January 11th, 2010

The show floor at CES Long, long ago, when I was working as a sports reporter, a colleague taught me a lesson. No matter how much time you have to spend in the rain covering a game, no matter how rudely you are treated by a player in the postgame locker room, never complain about it, because most readers would be happy to trade places with you for a day

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On My Way to CES

January 6th, 2010

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Why we don’t have much a la carte

October 9th, 2009

A menu. You know, for a la carte Here’s a small item that happens to illustrate a big point, one that’s a source of frustration to some satellite viewers. According to Multichannel News , The owners of the Fine Living Network are going to change it into the Cooking Channel next year

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White Springs is changing

October 5th, 2009

Map showing location of White Springs FL A fair number of readers have been emailing to ask about the status of White Springs TV, that station that shows lots of public domain movies from its lonely spot on Galaxy 27 . On Thursday, October 1, we stopped seeing that channel on our receivers, and around that time, its old web site started showing an Under Construction page. According to Victor Ives, monarch of White Springs TV, it’s not all that bad.

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Alternatives to FTA

October 1st, 2009

Over-the-air and small-dish antennae There are some people out there who don’t appreciate FTA for what it is. They don’t want a wild cornucopia of sports feeds, news from other countries, and oddball channels.

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Somebody should have an FTA booth

September 5th, 2009

Every time I visit the State Fair, I see folks selling Dish Network, and I see folks selling DirecTV. It seems to me that this would be a great opportunity for someone to sell FTA

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About This Blog

August 31st, 2009

The traditional spiral used for starting blogs. Now that we’re done getting up to date about the sad loss of so many OTA broadcasters from Ku-band, I suppose that I ought to introduce myself. I’m Michael Kilgore, owner and operator of FTAList.com

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Hopefully, the last of the bad news

August 26th, 2009

A calm vista of a lake and a snow-capped mountain Hi there. I’ve been meaning to restart this blog as soon as there was some good news to talk about.

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