Just a headsup I thought you liveaboards who have broadband wifi but not
cable TV would like to know.....

I subscribed to CNN Pipeline after dumping Alltel's Axcess TV, which they
only let you watch in 10 minute increments which is stupid. Pipeline has
4 live streams to choose from, plus a huge array of on-demand news items
and other information online 24/7, just like CNN. One of the ondemands
is a 3 minute news update that's updated hourly if you're in a hurry or
just don't have the time to watch much.

I paid $25/year for Pipeline, which I thought was very fair. It will
work on any wifi link you can access and is NOT IP based so you can use
it anywhere your laptop gets a wifi link. The software was/is free and
lets you watch all 4 streams in thumbnails, picking what you want. Turn
it off and it goes into a background mode that will popup again if there
is an important news alert...as long as you're online.

Overlooking the obvious pro-government and other biases Time-Warner
brings to CNN, it's a fairly good news service.

Well, NOW IT'S GONE TOTALLY FREE! The Ministry of Propaganda must have
decided it was more valuable to have more people watching than whatever
little money it was bringing into the beast's treasury. So, if you sign
up for it now, it's free. They even refunded $22 of my $25 to my credit
card for the paying customers. One can only speculate, of course, on the
MOTIVES of the corporation giving up this revenue source that must cost
them plenty to run. Pipeline even has its own studio...not cheap.

Larry
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If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?