How to view TV cable channels via computer?

[Mike Schwartz]

On 11/30/06, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
> .
> Are there any TV cable news channels (i.e. Fox News Channel) that are
> available to view via the Internet?  And if so, how is that done?
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You know how Gmail (www.google.com/mail) is always trying to put
"smart" context-sensitive info all around the border of the page, when
you are reading an e-mail message about a certain topic...

Well, when I was reading the above, here is what it put (not over on the
right, with the so-called "Sponsored Links"), but right on top, where I
think the "RSS feed" stuff usually goes... ::

it had this:
Watch Satellite TV on
PC<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BQwAGTDZvRfjNG5nG-QKPmPGhC5KOnhLG3JXQAcCNtwGw2wYQARgBIIaPgAIoBDAAOABQrb_e-v______AWDJ5v6GyKOgGZgB8pmzDqAByoej-wOqAW9BY2NvdW50QWdlMTIwdG9JbmZpbml0eStDQVQyTGF1bmNoK05hbWVEZXRlY3Rpb25WZXJ0aWNhbFdvcmQrUmFkbGlua3NSaHNQYWdlQmVsb3crU3dpdGNoQm90dG9tQWRzK1RpZXIwK1ZpZXdfQ1ayAQlnbWFpbC5jb23IAQHaATBodHRwOi8vZ21haWwuY29tL210c3Fycmx4eTRhamFhbnk5b3BmanAwNG11b2J6bTKoAwE&num=1&adurl=http://www.your-free-satellite.com>-
www.your-free-satellite.com - Shocking website exposes 100% free satellite
TV on your computer

...where the underlined part (in case you can't just click on the above) was

a hyper link to this URL:  (("
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BQwAGTDZvRfjNG5nG-QKPmPGhC5KOnhLG3JXQAcCNtwGw2wYQARgBIIaPgAIoBDAAOABQrb_e-v______AWDJ5v6GyKOgGZgB8pmzDqAByoej-wOqAW9BY2NvdW50QWdlMTIwdG9JbmZpbml0eStDQVQyTGF1bmNoK05hbWVEZXRlY3Rpb25WZXJ0aWNhbFdvcmQrUmFkbGlua3NSaHNQYWdlQmVsb3crU3dpdGNoQm90dG9tQWRzK1RpZXIwK1ZpZXdfQ1ayAQlnbWFpbC5jb23IAQHaATBodHRwOi8vZ21haWwuY29tL210c3Fycmx4eTRhamFhbnk5b3BmanAwNG11b2J6bTKoAwE&num=1&adurl=http://www.your-free-satellite.com
"))
...although, if you are not concerned to make sure that it gets counted as
someone clicking on a certain ad (you might care) (you might not), the only
part you really need, to get to the same "destination" web page, is probably
this:
   http://www.your-free-satellite.com
...which is also mentioned in the "text" of the "ad".
Over on the right hand side, it also had:
<<
     Sponsored Links

Watch Satellite TV on
PC<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BZhlXTDZvRfjNG5nG-QKPmPGhC-iR3ArowKrAAcCNtwHwogQQAhgCIIaPgAIoBDAAOABQ3JDB2gVgyeb-hsijoBmYAfKZsw6gAezQk_0DqgFvQWNjb3VudEFnZTEyMHRvSW5maW5pdHkrQ0FUMkxhdW5jaCtOYW1lRGV0ZWN0aW9uVmVydGljYWxXb3JkK1JhZGxpbmtzUmhzUGFnZUJlbG93K1N3aXRjaEJvdHRvbUFkcytUaWVyMCtWaWV3X0NWsgEJZ21haWwuY29tyAEB2gEwaHR0cDovL2dtYWlsLmNvbS9tdHNxcnJseHk0YWphYW55OW9wZmpwMDRtdW9iem0yqAMB&num=2&adurl=http://www.free-internet-tv.com>
Controversial website exposes 100% free satellite TV on your computer
www.free-internet-tv.com

Channel 2 Pays You
$300?<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BoJVmTDZvRfjNG5nG-QKPmPGhC8u1mQezwfagAcCNtwHAqQcQBBgEIIaPgAIoBDAAOABQzbernwRgyeb-hsijoBmYAfKZsw6gAfrQqf8DqgFvQWNjb3VudEFnZTEyMHRvSW5maW5pdHkrQ0FUMkxhdW5jaCtOYW1lRGV0ZWN0aW9uVmVydGljYWxXb3JkK1JhZGxpbmtzUmhzUGFnZUJlbG93K1N3aXRjaEJvdHRvbUFkcytUaWVyMCtWaWV3X0NWsgEJZ21haWwuY29tyAEB2gEwaHR0cDovL2dtYWlsLmNvbS9tdHNxcnJseHk0YWphYW55OW9wZmpwMDRtdW9iem0yqAMB&num=4&adurl=http://HighPaySurveys.com/channel.html>
Take A Channel 2 Survey And Get Paid $300 In The Next 15 Minutes!
HighPaySurveys.com

Is Fox Fair and
Balanced?<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BiNg_TDZvRfjNG5nG-QKPmPGhC9HT7BaF7MqEA8CNtwHQ9wcQAxgDIIaPgAIoBDAAOABQ4_vugv3_____AWDJ5v6GyKOgGZgB8pmzDqABlc_h_QOqAW9BY2NvdW50QWdlMTIwdG9JbmZpbml0eStDQVQyTGF1bmNoK05hbWVEZXRlY3Rpb25WZXJ0aWNhbFdvcmQrUmFkbGlua3NSaHNQYWdlQmVsb3crU3dpdGNoQm90dG9tQWRzK1RpZXIwK1ZpZXdfQ1ayAQlnbWFpbC5jb23IAQHaATBodHRwOi8vZ21haWwuY29tL210c3Fycmx4eTRhamFhbnk5b3BmanAwNG11b2J6bTKoAwE&num=3&adurl=http://survey.pollingpoint.com/638945>
You decide who's fair or biased in the 2006 Media Bias Survey!
www.PollingPoint.com

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>>;
actually most of that may be N/A, but the first one ("100% free")
might be what you are looking for...

Comment: (/reminder)  I was not doing a Google "search".
       I was just reading my e-mail using Gmail.
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
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