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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1982
Page
11
Two way cable subscribers in Houston Columbus Dallas Pittsburgh and other cities can talk back to their TV sets with a hand held box. They can take part in surveys answer questions play quiz show games rate programs and vote for movies to watch and pay later. The system also enables electronic shopping.
The process requires heavy investment by cable companies to build systems. Investors face years before recouping costs. They must obey local, state, and federal laws, apply for city franchises, and coordinate pole attachment rights, route planning, and subscriber advertising.
The article explains that networks beam programs to satellites and cable stations receive signals from satellites and local stations over the air. Signals are routed to a head end for processing, then through trunk lines and feeder and drop lines to homes, where a TV converter decodes them for viewing.
The text notes locusts swarm millions and damage crops in the Middle East and Africa and mentions humans sometimes eating them. It explains grasshoppers hear with organs under the knees on front legs, have powerful hind legs for jumping about 20 times body length, and that males chirp by rubbing wings together like a fiddle bow.
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