Originally Posted by Old_pie
No extra channels though, unless you count Yorkshire TV (or the larger Granada TV area as it was until that summer). It would have been a necessity in parts of Arnold, Carrington, Daybrook, Mapperley, Sherwood and Woodthorpe because of the hills obscuring the transmitter signals. They eventually got four extra stations in 1984 including a pre-Murdoch owned SKY TV channel, the impact on the football world soon to be felt to the point of the Football League itself being ripped apart. Astonishing really, looking back.
The ad on the Meadow Lane End roof was probably more to do with encouraging people to rent sets from Redifussion rather than take up cable which supplied about 10,000 homes. My parents rented from them until 1982, but TV sets often broke down so it did make sense until they became more reliable in the 1980s.
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