Found out today that is was brand new in 1971!!:eek:

I didn't get until 1988


This TV guide is from the spring of 1971

2000 is when we got DIRECTV.

2000 is when we got DIRECTV.


Directv was HUGE at that time

Actually, in 2000 it wasn't even called DIRECTV. It was Primestar. Directv bought out Primestar.

It was either in 1991 or 1992 when we got a satellite dish. I was in 8th grade.

Somewhere in the '80s. First cable show I remember watching was Its Garry Shandlings Show, so whenever that premiered.

Somewhere in the '80s. First cable show I remember watching was Its Garry Shandlings Show, so whenever that premiered.


I thought that started on FOX?

I thought that started on FOX?

Showtime new, FOX reruns

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Showtime new, FOX reruns

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Well what the hell was I watching in 1989 when I was laying in bed?:lol:

Sometime in the 80s. I remember on our cable provider, I don't remember what the channel was, but it would stop airing at 5PM and The Playboy Channel would start and air for the rest of the night.

Well what the hell was I watching in 1989 when I was laying in bed?:lol:

Here's the SHANDLING sked, so you tell me

SHOWTIME
September 1986-May 1990


FOX
March 1988-July 1989 Sunday 9:00-9:30
July 1989 Sunday 9:30-10:00
July 1989-August 1989 Sun 10:00-10:30
August l989-March 1990 Sun 10:30-11:00

Looks like you were watching new on Showtime or the Fox reruns.

I don't remember what the channel was, but it would stop airing at 5PM and The Playboy Channel would start and air for the rest of the night.

Hope it wasn't Disney...

In my own house, probably '91 or '92....My grandma had it I remember so it was always a treat when we would visit.

I'd say 1980-1981

I'd say 1980-1981


I stayed in the house all summer in 1988 because of cable:lol:

1980, and I was like a kid on Christmas morning when it got hooked up in my house. :yippee: At that time I thought the days of "Nothing to watch on TV tonight" was HISTORY. :D One of the first things I did was to have a "Cable TV Party" at my house. I invited all of my friends over to my house on the first week cable TV was installed. On the evening I chose a childhood scourge, the Presidential News Conference was about to be ERADICATED. :banana: Then-President Jimmy Carter was scheduled to hold a News Conference. At the appointed hour (8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time for those of you in Rio Linda! :lol: ) the news conference began. We watched the beginning, but as soon as we heard "Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States" we all shouted "Three, Two, One, SWITCH! and tuned in to HBO to watch Moonraker. :lol: Little did I knoe a day arrived when I would get so P/oed at my service I would DISCONTINUE paying for Cable TV service. :angryfire. But that day eventually came. Since then Ive built upma library of shows on home videos that's so huge I no longer have any need to subscribe to any pay-TV service.

my family and i first got cable tv in 1979 the first uncutmovie that i ever saw on cable was the one and only starring henry winkler

the first time I heard of it was back in 1973 when I read an article in our local newspapers TV guide magazine that came every week with the Sunday newspaper (remember when that happened?) I remember I asked my mother "What's cable TV?" and she told me "Oh, that's TV that comes to your house with a cable on the back of the set." I remember I pictured this thick cable coming down from the ceiling and being connected to the back of your TV:lol:
But I remember we first got it in 1988 and I remember when I first saw Nick at Nite I was really excited because I hadn't seen any of their shows in YEARS& some I had never seen but always wanted to.

In my home I think around 1989 or so with Time Warner, then for awhile I moved and didn't subscribe to cable until 1998 with DirecTV to this day.

my family and i first got cable tv in 1979 the first uncutmovie that i ever saw on cable was the one and only starring henry winkler
I remember when we first got TBS and HBO. We still had the same 13 channels except TBS was on Channel 10 and HBO on Channel 4. lol Our cable company also gave us free HBO for the whole first month. That was either in late 1977 or early 1978. I know I was in 6th grade.


But we had cable TV by 1974. It was just different. All the channels were clear and you could get channels throughout the state. I lived in Jacksonville NC and we had channels from Durham and Raleigh.

May 30,1995.

The crooked politicians decreed that every convict and welfare recipient should get cable TV before we did.

May 30,1995.

The crooked politicians decreed that every convict and welfare recipient should get cable TV before we did.


And the last time I check I thought in jail was a punishment not somewhere to have internet access and cable

1980.

I remember that TV Guide article! They were calling it "pay tv". For the life of me I couldn't figure out how/why we would have to pay for tv! After all tv was free! What were they talking about!:confused: Anyway we first got cable tv around 1990. It was great! Never to go back! But it is way too expensive! Just like the internet. It's all the same air space. It's criminal how the cable companies are gouging everyone! :mad:

I remember that TV Guide article! They were calling it "pay tv". For the life of me I couldn't figure out how/why we would have to pay for tv! After all tv was free! What were they talking about!:confused: Anyway we first got cable tv around 1990. It was great! Never to go back! But it is way too expensive! Just like the internet. It's all the same air space. It's criminal how the cable companies are gouging everyone! :mad:


Comcast send me a letter the other day saying my modem is outdated and that I need to upgrade to a faster and speedier modem.

I threw that sh*t right in the trash:lol: The speed is just fine to me

In the early 80s we finally got it....... I LOVED HAVING GOOD CARTOONS ON 24/7!!!! (In analog)

I would say in the mid 1980's. I still have it but dislike it.

I dislike it also... Crappy digital signal,no good programming,etc.........

I think for me it had to be in the 80's because I remember my parents watching the original Porky's on HBO and my mom telling me to cover my eyes during the "girly scenes"

Hope it wasn't Disney...

From mouse ears to bunny ears.

Early 80's I know we had Disney back when it was a premium channel

1988. I believe NewChannels was our provider then.

Late 1984 or early 1985.

If I recall, the Chicago neighborhood I lived in at the time started getting wired for cable sometime in 1983. Then salespeople started going door to door trying to get people to sign up. I started getting Cable TV sometime in 1984. The original cable company was called Group W Cable. Then later it became Prime Cable, and later still it became Comcast.

Before Cable TV, from about 1980 to 83, Chicago had a pay TV service called "ON TV", which showed mostly current/recent movies. Tied in with the service was "Sportsvision", a sports channel which showed White Sox games during baseball season, and Bulls and Blackhawks games during basketball and hockey seasons. After cable TV took over, ON TV eventually became history, while Sportsvision was offered as a channel on the cable TV package. Sportsvision changed names over the years, eventually being called Comcast Sports Network.

The Summer of 1981 when we lived in the Detroit Area, Michigan

I think the 80's...my grandparents had cable at the time. We got it for our house in 1991...it was North Coast Cable that we got.

I sooooo miss cable of the 80's and 90's...when stations cared for the viewers and quality, not what the popular media wants!

me my mom & dad didn't get cable couple years after my grandmama memow die!! we just had 3 9 &12!! then when i was in middle school we got cable!! but i remember going to my other grand mamas house mamma jeans house & they would have cartoon network!! then they even had z music station it was christian music video sation but they played more christian rock videos not like real videos were they played mostly ccm christian music videos !! but i really didn't get into tv too much until after i got out of high school!!