Episode 496: It's Not TV, It's The Green Channel?

Show Notes Episode 496: It’s Not Tv, It’s The Green Channel This week Host Dave Bledsoe got hammered and spent four hours trying to explain to a bartender how you could see boobs in TV  static when he was a kid. (Again.) On the show this week we take a look at how boobs and sports changed television forever, we talk about the birth of HBO! Along the way we learn that Dave’’s grandparents were too poor to afford more than one television station. (We think?) Then we dive into the history of paying to watch something you can get over the air for free. (Yay Capitalism!) Then we meet a man with a dream, a dream to get people to pay to watch television! We follow his struggling launch of HBO in Wilkes Barre PA. (Scranton was too good for it!) Then we explain how cursing, bare breasts and boxing created a channel that would go on to change how Americans watched and thought about television.  (For the good, for a change!) Our Sponsor this week is Bulg Box, it’s like Brit Box but for Bulgarian television! We open the show with the HBO intro and close with KarlisMusik who is feeling being green.. Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense The Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ The Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthehellwereyouthinkingpod/ Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kHmmrjptrq Our Website: https://www.whatthehellpodcast.com Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/QF7US5_LzOQ?si=SpKJFKXAm6ndX1WR&t=59 Buy Our Stuff: https://www.seltzerkings.com/shop Citations Needed: Risk: A Game of Cable Domination https://web.archive.org/web/20130515203331/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/HBO.html Wikipedia: The History of HBO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HBO# IMDB When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080129/ FacebookTwitterGoogle1EmailDeliciousDiggStumbleuponRedditTumblr It’s Not TV: HBO, The Company That Changed Television: The Skies, Junior Birdmen! https://web.archive.org/web/20140204031606/http://www.soundonsight.org/its-not-tv-hbo-the-company-that-changed-television-the-skies-junior-birdmen/ An American Family https://web.archive.org/web/20120717063911/http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/04/sopranos200704?currentPage=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices