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john
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« on: November 24, 2005, 05:20:23 PM »
My mate in Carlisle has cable tv etc... when is the rest of the county getting it?
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hunnymonster
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« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2006, 10:28:47 PM »
Given the debt burden of NTL and Telewest before their combination - the twelfth of never is a reasonable estimate.

Cable installation is shockingly bad economic prospect for serving non-dense urban areas - and Carlisle is probably the only urban island of anything like a viable size for cable - maybe Barrow too at a push.
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2006, 06:40:04 AM »
What ever happened to ... I think it was Redifusion cable?  I think they used to have Barrow cabled from their base bahind the Rainbow garage in Barrow.

So where they ahead of time ?
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2006, 03:11:37 PM »
Well they kind of died out in the early 1970s (along with 405-line VHF TV as far as I remember) because everyone could get the signals via the pigeon perch on the roof and there wasn't a willing benefactor to pay for the switch to 625-line colour - at least that's what http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jeremy.thompson/rediffusion.htm says Smiley
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