Article content Notel was the fictional name given by MacBeth, a UBC psychology professor, to a real B.C. town (pop. 658) in the Rocky Mountain Trench which, because of the mountains surrounding it, was one of the last settlements in North America to receive TV signals. She never did reveal the real name of the town. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Comic-book artist portrays UBC prof who led pioneering study on the effects of television in the 1970s Back to video It today’s terms, it would be like living in a decent-sized Kootenays town and being the only community on the continent without internet access.