I wonder if line converters were widely avaialble at that time. Note that in the quote above, Ardagh mentions TV sets in Alsace being “adapted” to receive German TV.
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Of course, cross-border TV viewing also extended across the Iron Curtain. Here’s a passage about TV in a divided Berlin, again from Timothy Green’s 1972 book (click to enlarge):
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Since our discussion of cross-border television is primarily history-related, I propose that we continue it in THIS thread.
An interesting feature about TV in North Korea:
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Video of ABS-CBN’s shutdown taken from their newsroom.
if iam correct the order of shut down is because of abs-cbn was critising deturte?
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The authorities in the Philippines have essentially revoked the broadcast licence of the largest commercial broadcaster over there, ABS-CBN. Most agree it’s because they were critical of President Duterte. Scary stuff, this could well be back to the times of a Marcos-style dictatorship.
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ABS-CBN did stop broadcasting once before, during the Marcos era, from 1972 to 1986.
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the gov in the Philippines does not want to renew the broadcasting license for the big broadcaster ABS-CBN
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and this is all because they started to critizie what deturte is doing as president
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phillipine house consitutes as a commitee of the whole to tackle abs-cbn franchise bill
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lawmakers aprove abs-cbn provisional franchise till oct 31 2020:
I can only assume he won’t be in office for very long…
Duterte’s term ends in 2 years time and he can’t seek re-election