Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Same here. Back in the 1970's, I lived in Israel for a while. In the
cities, everyone lived in big apartment complexes. Nobody watched the
official Israeli stations. The good programming was on the various
Arab stations, which were diverse, distant, and politically incorrect.
There was no cable TV (because the government didn't want to make it
easy to watch the Arab stations) so every apartment had its own
collection of antennas. Typical was a 3 meter pole with at least 4
yagis. Multiply that by at least 4 apartments per building and the
roof tops looked like an aluminum forest.

Those days are gone, we have cable TV, DBS TV and streaming video on the
Internet. In the cities the antennas remain, no one wants to pay the money
to remove them. Eventually it will be necessary to repair the roofs under them
and take them down.

We are also supposed to have digital terrestrial TV in a few months, but instead
of each station having various programs, there will be multiple channels
on the same frequency.

Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM