Long long ago in a land far far away when I was designing some of the earliest Cable TV systems it was not unusual to find public opposition and misconceptions like "The cable sucks the signal out of the air so your antenna won't work anymore".
In one California Town I got a letter from an irate citizen upset that we would run a cable down the existing power and telephone poles it ran down the real of their property.
It began "Dear Son-of-a-Bitch" and ended with "Nasty Letter to Follow".
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