I grew up on a long country road where the homes were spaced too far apart to attract a cable TV line. Those were the days before the $5000 NASA-style shed-sized satellite dishes. Long, long before the pizza-sized DirectTV jobbies. So my family had to resort to a huge antenna that towered over our house. You could rotate it back and forth with a controller that was installed in the master bedroom. For all that, we could pull down three channels: CBC, CJOH and if the weather was good, WWNY, a CBS affiliate broadcasting out of Watertown, New York. One of those three stations used to re-run some pretty great old comedies including
“The Honeymooners” and
“The Andy Griffith Show”. I’m glad I got to watch
Don Knotts‘ Barney Fife. Hats off to Mr. Furley. He died on Friday.
Don Knotts dead at 81
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