The Cable Is Coming to Abilene
When I was a boy growing up in a rural part of the Big Country of West Texas in the 1950s, our one TV station had no live network programming for several years after it first signed on the air. The reason was the AT&T line (a coaxial cable) carrying network television service extended no farther westward than Dallas-Fort Worth. No football, no basketball, no baseball, no network news. When construction started to expand the service to the Abilene market, the station, KRBC-TV, began running a film promotional announcement with the words "the cable is coming to Abilene." I was reminded of that line yesterday when we had a Google Fiber hanger placed on our front door here in southwest Austin. Google Fiber hanger, promising free installation, unlimited data with no throttling or extra charges, more than enough Wi-Fi with no buffering or interruptions, TV and telephone service. Photo by Thom Milkovic on Unsplash . Door hanger scan . Austin has always been a limited-choice te...