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From: mflawson@uokmax.UUCP (Michael F Lawson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Moronic TV news coverage
Summary: NASA Select the best coverage
Message-ID: <2733@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 10:02:27 GMT
Expires: 25 Mar 89 06:00:00 GMT
References: <9802@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <704@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Reply-To: mflawson@uokmax.UUCP (Michael F Lawson)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <704@m3.mfci.UUCP> rodman@mfci.UUCP (Paul Rodman) writes:
>
>After watching another shuttle launch and flipping desperately between
>channel 4 and CNN, I very much wish for a channel that would tell
>the commentator to SHUT-UP during the launch.
>
>Can't I PLEASE hear and see the NASA feeds? Do we have to have the
>lowest common denominator?
>

I agree.  The network commentators seem to know little about what they're
talking about.  I wish some electronics whiz would come up with a cheap
dedicated satellite receiver to only receive NASA Select.  I hate to buy
a whole satellite receiver system JUST because I want to see that channel,
but I have been seriously considering it.

Mike Lawson
mflawson@uokmax.uucp