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My early-morning scribbles at CES In the middle of the night after my first day at the CES show floor this year, I woke up with a vision. If you put a cluster of attractive free-to-air channels together on one transponder, that would make a much more sustainable business plan than for any single channel. I was so inspired that I scribbled down some notes for some free channels ideas, and that’s the photo* to the right of this paragraph.

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What would you add to FreeDBS?

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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Alternatives to White Springs TV

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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How to get a free ticket to CES

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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Not much FTA at CES

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On My Way to CES

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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Why we don’t have much a la carte

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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White Springs is changing

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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Alternatives to FTA

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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Somebody should have an FTA booth

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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