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Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Why Can't This Be on Television?
When Yi was in college, he became aware of all these documentaries from the b b c and encyclopaedia. He thought why can't this be on television? So he made two phone calls to a local broadcast station but they were just deafinitely not interested. And there was cable was around. This would have been probably around 19 72 or 73,. But cable was really a community antenna. There were a lot of places in america that couldn't receive a good broadcast signal either they were down in the hollows. Wher they were in urban areas, were large buildings would block that. In alabama, there was the tele prompter cable system.
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