Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!fortune!preston From: preston@fortune.UUCP (Carol Preston) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: Satellite dishes Message-ID: <3960@fortune.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 18:37:15 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.3960 Posted: Mon Aug 6 18:37:15 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 08:23:15 EDT Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 24 Just thought I'd add my two cents into this conversation. Earlier this summer I was living in Ann Arbor Michigan. A new subscription channel began in Michigan which televised most of the Detroit Tiger baseball games. Needless to say it is a hot item and a number of bars decided to get the station with their satellites, to attract more patrons. The company (named PASS incidently) sent out 'spies' to get a list of which bars were intercepting their signal. The company then brought suit against these bars. I don't remember all the details, but the judge (I don't know what level) ruled that the bars were doing nothing illegal since the signal was from a satellite and it wasn't being scrambled. The company decided to appeal, but I don't know anything more since I have since moved from the area. I do know from friends who still live there that the bars are still showing the channel. On one of the broadcasts that I watched on "regular" television, the Tiger's announcer, George Kell, who lives in Arkansas, said that he even has a satellite and picks up the games. -- Carol Preston Software Engineer - Belmont UUCP: {sri-unix, amd, hpda, harpo, ihnp4, allegra}!fortune!preston DDD: (415) 594-2691 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Pkwy, Redwood Shores, CA 94065