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re: Did you read TV Guide in the supermarket as a kid?
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:58 am to CAD703X
Posted on 9/30/24 at 6:58 am to CAD703X
My grandmother had a subscription. It was always a big deal to go over there and get to read it and look ahead to see what was coming on tv. She did every crossword puzzle in every issue she got. She even had a crossword dictionary.
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Posted on 9/30/24 at 7:06 am to CAD703X
When I was 5 years old, pawpaw would come pick us up, go to the convenience store for a 12 pack of cold coors, cruise around the neighborhood while he drank and we stood in the passenger seat until he had a few roadies. We'd go back to his house and he'd crack open some more beer, some tostitos and pace picante sauce (medium) then we'd sit around and thumb through the newspaper TV guide and find something good on the tube eating chips and hot sauce.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 7:56 am to CAD703X
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Did you read TV Guide in the supermarket as a kid?
I would go read MAD and Cracked magazines. Later on, it was Baseball Weekly and Sports Illustrated at the grocery store.
I remember getting Cablecast in the mail each week, and I would sit and circle the shows I wanted to watch.
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I loved spending a week with my grandmother in the summer because she had TBS and WGN
On a good summer day, you could see the Braves, Cubs, and White Sox play, and on WBTR, they sometimes carried the Astros and Rangers games. No stupid MLB TV subscription or blackouts. I became a Braves fan because my favorite uncle was a Cubs fan just to have something to spar with him over. TBS and WGN were great.
This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 8:01 am
Posted on 9/30/24 at 8:36 am to CAD703X
Most households I knew of as a kid subscribed to TV Guide, it was the only way to know what was coming on in the upcoming week.
Same. Saturday mornings were a mini-Christmas morning each week because that was when cartoons came on. My parents had a tough time getting me out of the bed for school, but on Saturday mornings I was up before the stations would be on the air.
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I got 3 channels and PBS
Same. Saturday mornings were a mini-Christmas morning each week because that was when cartoons came on. My parents had a tough time getting me out of the bed for school, but on Saturday mornings I was up before the stations would be on the air.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:27 am to Bard
quote:hell yeah! There were some great ones that came on at 6am like Jonny quest and that crazy show where the rhinoceros shot missiles out of his horn and if I ever overslept on Saturday and missed these I was pissed.
My parents had a tough time getting me out of the bed for school, but on Saturday mornings I was up before the stations would be on the air.
After 4-5 hours glued to the TV eating sugar cereal my mom would kick us out for the rest of the day. It was only like 11am.
Eta herculoids!!
show was badass This post was edited on 9/30/24 at 9:32 am
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:28 am to CAD703X
Yes, and at home.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:30 am to CAD703X
Sold magazine subscriptions for fund raiser at school.
TV guide was my best seller!
TV guide was my best seller!
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:31 am to CAD703X
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I got 3 channels and PBS so if I had any hope of catching a decent movie I better go to the store with my mom at least once a week.
I remember we had a weekly publication on newsprint paper called CableCast. It showed all the stuff coming on that week including the HBO/Showtime/Cinemax movies.
I can't find an image of it but it was awfully handy.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 9:58 am to CAD703X
My parents had a subscription.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 10:48 am to Dirk Dawgler
How about the early days of HBO! Every month you got a pamphlet showing the movies for the month and under the desciption it listed a doze dates the movie would play that month
Posted on 9/30/24 at 11:15 am to HooDooWitch
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How about the early days of HBO! Every month you got a pamphlet showing the movies for the month and under the desciption it listed a doze dates the movie would play that month
i remember that! yep, you had a few times you could catch the show you wanted.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 12:11 pm to CAD703X
Although I bought the TV Guide magazine every week (as I mentioned), I never wanted a subscription. The main reason being the ugly address sticker that would be plastered across the cover, which quite often might deface some pretty tv-actress, covering up her chin or her figure.
The excitement over each week's listings of movies being run by local stations back in the days of having three channels and no VCR's involved how you had to specifically 'make time' for viewings, and the relative rarity of airings of many movies. If you missed the film you wanted to see, it might not show up for another three years, five years, ten years. Or even not at all. I remember watching some films like "Damn Citizen" (1957) and "Mission Stardust" (1968), and then NEVER saw them again for decades. Tons of films became super-rare and didn't even appear anywhere despite the explosion of cable channels.
It was often very hard to access things in the pre-internet era. I don't miss that, but on the other hand, it sure made you 'value' things all the more.
The excitement over each week's listings of movies being run by local stations back in the days of having three channels and no VCR's involved how you had to specifically 'make time' for viewings, and the relative rarity of airings of many movies. If you missed the film you wanted to see, it might not show up for another three years, five years, ten years. Or even not at all. I remember watching some films like "Damn Citizen" (1957) and "Mission Stardust" (1968), and then NEVER saw them again for decades. Tons of films became super-rare and didn't even appear anywhere despite the explosion of cable channels.
It was often very hard to access things in the pre-internet era. I don't miss that, but on the other hand, it sure made you 'value' things all the more.
Posted on 9/30/24 at 12:18 pm to CAD703X
I was old enough where there was a channel dedicated to the TV guide. Early 2000's
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