Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: re: Cable TV Message-ID: <604@nsc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 17:50:46 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.604 Posted: Mon Feb 6 17:50:46 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 22:06:44 EST References: <5427@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 21 The reason you probably got the Playboy channel was not because they were test marketing it, but because Playboy Channel and the Christian network use the same transponder on the satellite. The religion people have it during the day, and Playboy at night when the money is really made (since Playboy would have REAL problems broadcasting during the day when kiddies could see it, this is a way to make some money on their extra bandwidth). The engineers at your cable company probably forgot to turn off the feed. (talk about strange bedfellows!) chuq -- From the house at Pooh Corner: Chuq 'Nuke Wobegon' Von Rospach {fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui Have you hugged your Pooh today? Go, Lemmings, Go! Everyone wants to make love to their mother, Harold. What I can't understand is why you want to make love to your grandmother!