Thanks all!

The deal was this: The satellite was already here, and paid for, I just didn't have any idea on how (or why!) to hook it up. Thankfully, I didn't have to go it alone! There was a knock at the door last night and the TV SUPPORT GROUP came by to render their services! They thought I might be frightened by a flickering box with one-dimensional images, so I was introduced to junkfood and telly etiquette (see Jen, this is what they call a "commercial"...that's when you get up and pee), and they even picked a movie I'd seen about a zillion times (Young Frankenstein) just so I'd be comfortable. With friends like that.... And I do have the A&E/Discovery/History, so with all the thumbs-up they got, I'lll check them out.

CarolC: PBS is great, but we can't get local tv in the valley. Same with NPR. If it's a sunny day, and I'm wearing my tin-foil underwear, I can maybe get a little morning news via radio.

Don: Do they do Lucy re-runs? *g*

misophist: excellent points, and the reason that network tv went the way of the buffalo around here, however, metropolitan newspapers aren't much better. If I wanted to be assaulted with sex and ads for crap I don't need, I could always just buy Cosmo. It has no place in 'news'.

McGrath: GREAT idea! videotaping is on the books

Walking Eagle: The dish was originally going to be an ornate birdbath....it might yet...

Mudlark: yup, just in time to be snowed in, and turning the sucker off is no problem, seeing as I've never been one to subscribe to the "never push the red button" theory! *g*

TTR: movies from the library is a fine idea as well, something to look into before the snow flies for certain

katlaughing: You leave them ol' black&whites alone! *g* I can't help it if I'm a sucker for guys in cufflinks...

~JE