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Subject: Disney Channel in the '80's
Written By: woops on 01/25/07 at 5:10 pm
This may sound like a dumb question, but I wonder why it was a pay channel?
BTW, I know it was more of a familiy oriented network with actual Disney programming not the MTV Jr. network it is now... ::) :P
Subject: Re: Disney Channel in the '80's
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 01/25/07 at 5:45 pm
Well, because getting certain cable channels back then was still a costly thing, and limited technology made it rather difficult because cable was not as widely used then as it is now. I remember Disney being channel 26 for us - and that was considered a "high" numbered channel and it meant there wasn't much more after that! ;D
Subject: Re: Disney Channel in the '80's
Written By: Gidgxx on 01/25/07 at 11:24 pm
I remember watching the disney channel on satelite in the eighties.
Subject: Re: Disney Channel in the '80's
Written By: JamieMcBain on 01/25/07 at 11:57 pm
This may sound like a dumb question, but I wonder why it was a pay channel?
BTW, I know it was more of a familiy oriented network with actual Disney programming not the MTV Jr. network it is now... ::) :P
Probally because it had to do with the fact, that not ever had cable TV just quite yet.
Subject: Re: Disney Channel in the '80's
Written By: whistledog on 01/26/07 at 12:02 am
In Canada, we don't have The Disney Channel, but a similar one called The Family Channel. It is a pay channel, not available through basic cable
Subject: Re: Disney Channel in the '80's
Written By: mach!ne_he@d on 01/26/07 at 5:14 pm
Well, because getting certain cable channels back then was still a costly thing, and limited technology made it rather difficult because cable was not as widely used then as it is now. I remember Disney being channel 26 for us - and that was considered a "high" numbered channel and it meant there wasn't much more after that! ;D
Yeah, was really glad when we first got cable in the mid '90s. The funny thing was that, at first we only got about 25 channels, and I thought that was alot. Now we get over 100 ;D
We didn't get The Disney Channel around here until the late '90s, at which point I had very little interest in watching it.