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to: MARIO A. GABRIELE JR
from: PETE HOPPING
date: 1997-12-23 10:20:00
subject: Cable TV channels

 -=> Quoting Mario A. Gabriele Jr to Tom Walker <=-
 MAGJ> On 12-21-97 TOM WALKER wrote to MARIO A. GABRIELE JR...
 TW> MA>  It appeared that the police dept freq was on HBO.  Every time
 TW> dispatch
 TW> MA>  on faint signals from the P.D. came thru the TV. Cable knew
 TW> MA>  they couldnt do anything about it.
 TW>
 TW>  Actualy make that WOULDN'T do anything about it. They have a Shield
 TW> Integrety
 TW> probelm but it is very labor intensive to track those things down. So
 TW> they
 TW> will tolerate a certian number of complaints before they take action.
 MAGJ>
 MAGJ> Well, all the other cable channels had no problems...
 MAGJ> Just HBO...so I dropped HBO and ended my problems...
That was an easy but wrong approach. The cable company is supposed
to keep their system free of external signals. If I had been in
your shoes I would have pestered them to death until they fixed
the problem or I would have reported it to the FCC.
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