I don’t know what to think. Since I live in a very rural area where no-one has cable and the majority of my neighbors have either Dish or DirectTV, it still remains a mystery. Channel 55.1 is a network called iON; then there is 55.2 (cartoons) 55.3 (old movies) 55.4 (paid programming) and 55.5 (QVC online shopping).
Perhaps today I will receive 55.6
@Buttonstc; You are right about the musical talents and abilities on the Lawrence Welk show and they certainly stuck to the tempo. Never any rubatos. Goodman and Shaw were more interesting clarinet players because they did stray from the “and-a-one-and-a-two”.) And they certainly all projected the safe middle-America culture of those days.
I just found this quote in the Wikipedia article about the show…but it was common knowledge at the time, I believe.
“These musicians were bound by an unofficial set of morals (artistic and personal) dictated by Welk, and if he believed the audience did not find them wholesome enough, they would be fired.
Former Champagne Lady Alice Lon was fired in 1959 for crossing her legs on a desk. After he fired Lon, thousands of letters filled the ABC mailroom, demanding an apology, and that she be rehired. Welk tried to get Lon back but she refused.”