It snows in the TV

I spent the whole spring, the whole summer and fall not watching TV a bit. It was snorting in the living room. Then came winter and watching the stars at -30ºC is not as pleasant. The television has now a new role: filling in for the stars. Here in the mountains, very few channels apparently gets through easily. Very few stations make it that far without a little help.

I am glad to report that Vermont Public Television can be watched from that far. I'll bet the transmitter is on Mt Mansfield, some 100 km away! The signal is rather weak though. I don't mind to much for I still can watch Nova, Frontline and the BBC World News, though in the snow...


CBC with its 14,000 kw transmitter somewhere around Sherbrooke arrives poorly as well but is still watchable and a must in TV out here, let alone anywhere in this country.