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Posted by Neal McLain on January 31, 2008, 10:33 pm
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Several months ago, I posted a message on this digest about RFD-TV, a
non-broadcast cable/satellite video network that claims to be "Rural
America's Most Important Network." My post mentioned an upcoming
program in the "Trains and Locomotives" series about the Skokie Swift.
The subsequent thread is at
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/TELECOM_Digest_Online/0661.html
RFD-TV and Comcast have concluded a carriage deal that will bring RFD-TV
to several larger cities, including Philadelphia. http://tinyurl.com/2gpgks
So, Lisa: watch for an announcement about RFD-TV coming to a TV set near
you!
FWIW (and I dont think it's worth much), you'll also get to watch the
reincarnated Don Imus show.
Neal McLain
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Posted by on February 1, 2008, 7:22 pm
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> So, Lisa: watch for an announcement about RFD-TV coming to a TV set near
> you!
Thanks for the heads-up.
> FWIW (and I don t think it's worth much), you'll also get to watch the
> reincarnated Don Imus show.
I used enjoy Imus about 20 years ago when he was on WNBC-AM. He was a
disc jockey back then, playing good music, as well as having radio
comedy skits that were very funny. When WNBC shut down, he went to
WFAN and it was a completely different show. (A lot more commercials,
for one thing.)
WNBC-AM was a great station. It had a good choice of music and fun to
listen to, but not over the top like some AM stations. I don't
understand why it was shut down; it had something to do with licensing
and outlets problems that arose after GE bought RCA, the parent
company. Apparently what RCA was allowed to do GE could not; made no
sense to me. In Philadelphia, another odd change was two TV stations
swapping networks; KYW-3 switched from NBC to CBS, and WCAU-10
switched from CBS to NBC. Why that I don't know either. After so
many years I still have trouble remembering that 10 is now NBC and 3
is now CBS.
Telecom reference: They did a special on the early years of Saturday
Night Live, and showed numerous scenes of the SNL working offices.
Prominent all over the place were black rotary keysets; it seemed they
had more phones that desks. I've heard people in the entertainment
business use the phone a lot. I think this was around 1975, by then
I'd figure a large TV network would want to be modern and have Touch
Tone, but no. (Or But NOOOOOOOOOO, as Belushi would say.) I wonder
if they were served by a Centrex or plain PBX.
(In thinking about this, I don't think telephones were very promient
in "Animal House"; maybe one pay phone scene.)
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Posted by Curtis R Anderson on February 2, 2008, 6:13 pm
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> (In thinking about this, I don't think telephones were very promient
> in "Animal House"; maybe one pay phone scene.)
One character uses a Princess phone to set up geting a Delta beaten up.
The scene you might be thinking of is another Delta calling his
girlfriend, complete with the vintage 420x40 ringback tone so prevalent
on panel and #1XB and probably my most very favorite telecom sound of
them all.
--
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Only N more shopping days to Christmas! (where N is an integer)
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Posted by on February 3, 2008, 9:50 am
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> One character uses a Princess phone to set up geting a Delta beaten up.
> The scene you might be thinking of is another Delta calling his
> girlfriend, complete with the vintage 420x40 ringback tone so prevalent
> on panel and #1XB and probably my most very favorite telecom sound of
> them all.
A few years ago I had to call Brooklyn, NY. I thought everything was
ESS by that point, but the phone rang with the oldstyle ringing signal
that you describe. It was kind of a grrrrrrrrrrr-ahhhhhhhhhh sound,
not silent between ringing. When I first used a dial PBX and phones
on an SxS office, I was shocked at the horrid irritating ringing
signal. When the #5 XBARs came out, we noticed they were silent
between rings as of course was ESS.
We also noticed the later versions of ESS that didn't make the chunka-
clunk sounds when call-waiting was activated.
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Posted by Curtis R Anderson on February 3, 2008, 7:00 pm
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> A few years ago I had to call Brooklyn, NY. I thought everything was
> ESS by that point, but the phone rang with the oldstyle ringing signal
> that you describe. It was kind of a grrrrrrrrrrr-ahhhhhhhhhh sound,
> not silent between ringing. When I first used a dial PBX and phones
> on an SxS office, I was shocked at the horrid irritating ringing
> signal. When the #5 XBARs came out, we noticed they were silent
> between rings as of course was ESS.
I knew this phone phreak-type guy from New York who somewhat reminded me
of "Joybubbles". I called him one night in late 1991, and with his
three-way calling, gave me the grand tour of curious NY telecom sounds,
including, perhaps, that same switch you describe. The one he let me
hear was an old Ericcson crossbar.
> We also noticed the later versions of ESS that didn't make the chunka-
> clunk sounds when call-waiting was activated.
I remember the "click-beep-click" of #1AESS signaling the call waiting.
The other caller got to hear a few clicks as well.
--
Curtis R. Anderson, Co-creator of "Gleepy the Hen", still
Email not munged, SpamAssassin [tm] in effect.
http://www.gleepy.net/ mailto:gleepy@intelligencia.com
mailto:gleepy@gleepy.net (and others) Yahoo!: gleepythehen
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