I didn't say anything about cable. From what I know of the history of cable, it started for places that were geographically isolated from receiving terrestrial

I didn't say anything about cable. From what I know of the history of cable, it started for places that were geographically isolated from receiving terrestrial broadcast (because of a valley of whatever). Terrestrial == over-the-air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_television Not sure why they NYT would have called it a "killer rabbit" if it was not a monty python reference.