CATV Is Coming to Your Town

One of these days soon, a salesman will ring your doorbell and offer a special service called cable TV. "Why bother?" you may ask. "I'm perfectly satisfied with the reception I'm getting now on my five [if you're average] channels." True, you may be getting good TV reception. But CATV (Community Antenna TV) will offer you better reception, and more. Added up, here is what you will get:
• The five channels you would usually pull in with your antenna— but much sharper and clearer.
• Three, maybe four, other stations from other cities. Two or three of them will probably duplicate much of the network programing you're already getting. But one or two may be independents that you have no way of seeing, short of moving to the next town. That's a total of nine channels off the air.
• Three local channels—continuously broadcasting time/weather, news/stock ticker, and local live broadcasts—from town meetings to high-school ball games. That's 12 channels so far.
• There's more coming: pay TV on the cable. This is the most exciting home-entertainment prospect of all. Pay cable channels will cost extra.