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OK, you've stumped me. But assuming I'm not missing a joke, FOX is a broadcast network, with its signal put out over the air.
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I was so stumped that I got outreplied!
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Well, I've had Fox on cable all the time. There are Fox broadcasting stations too, yeah, but I always assumed they were affiliates. Aren't restrictions on broadcast the same anyway?
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If you have cable, you get your local broadcast stations sent to your TV through the cable. But it's the exact same stuff that's being broadcast over the air. So the same rules are in effect.
And restrictions on broadcast television are far tighter than on cable. You get cable through a private contract between yourself and the cable company. If you don't like the programming, you can take it up with them. But broadcast TV is being sent through the air to everyone. Over frequencies doled out by the government. Thus, the FCC gets to decide what you can and cannot do on broadcast stations.
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There are currently five broadcast networks in the US: NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, and The CW. These are the ones that get sent over the airwaves in addition to other services (i.e. cable). So no, Fox is not a cable network.
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Well, I've learned that I have absolutely no idea how TV works :-/
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Don't worry; if current programming is anything to go by, even TV executives have no idea how TV works.
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Only a few fictional spacecraft utilising cables as a major structural element come to mind (note that fictional includes designs that were never, or cannot currently, be built). One is Larry Niven's idea for the Protector's ship, with the reactor compartment strung out hundreds of metres ahead of the life support module. The other is the Valkyrie, details of which are available here: Atomic Rocket - Valkyrie
I think there's something deeply impressive about this approach as well. After all, there's no reason why a spacecraft need be neatly contained within a single outer shell. Spacecraft don't have to tolerate the drag created by flying through an atmosphere, and under ideal conditions do not need to venture too close to a gravity well (one should use one's ground to orbit shuttle for that sort of thing), so they could just be a collection of interconnected modules in a spider web of cables, or a long piece of string with bits attached at intervals. I once doodled a rotating design with a central propulsion unit and habitation modules on cables that could be extended or retracted to vary the gravity experienced by the inhabitants.
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