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MineralMan

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3. Yes, but where I was, the CBS transmitter was better.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 28, 2025, 10:58 AM

Oct 2025

We lived on the edge of reception from Los Angeles, so we didn't always get high quality reception until a community antenna system was installed in our small town. My father worked on that system when it was put in, back in the mid 1950s. One of the first cable TV systems anywhere. Amazing!

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From Walter Cronkite to Trump Apologist [View all] MineralMan Oct 2025 OP

NBC had Huntley and Brinkley during the same time slot. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #1

More's the Pity! MineralMan Oct 2025 #2

Yes, but where I was, the CBS transmitter was better. MineralMan Oct 2025 #3

If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America. - LBJ mobeau69 Oct 2025 #4

The networks could have stopped Trump in 2015 RANDYWILDMAN Oct 2025 #5

Nightline with Ted Koppel was very good, too. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #6

I didn't know until after Cronkite died that he was basically an old school New Deal liberal. Aristus Oct 2025 #7

I don't remember him ever saying anything about his own politics. MineralMan Oct 2025 #8