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Morning Edition Returns: 8th Century Cable TV?

NPR
Published January 7, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

"Frau Walburga" runs afoul of Germany's TV license fee, and faces a fine that she's unable to pay. Maybe if they'd sent the bill out 1,200 years earlier...

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