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Posted on 4/27/26 at 6:36 am to BabyTac
24/7 tv (news) ruined journalism
Posted on 4/27/26 at 7:44 am to BabyTac
kukula, Fran and Ollie and Dave Garroway were on the Today show in NYC and they did the show in a window next to the sidewalk. The show also had an orchestra with a famous conductor whose name was Roastapovic (maybe, I was young and may not remember the name, much less how it was spelled.)
Four channels out of D.C. We only received two without heavy 'snow'.
Four channels out of D.C. We only received two without heavy 'snow'.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 7:59 am to BabyTac
Yep, and we could watch 4 local channels---WWL, WDSU, WVUE and WYES and there were no "Clickers' to change them remotely.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 8:03 am to BabyTac
All too well.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 8:12 am to BabyTac
Remember the morning farm report?
I miss that.
I miss that.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 8:51 am to BabyTac
The caption in the pic says 1982, pretty sure by 1982, TV was on the air pretty much 24/7...
It was the 70's when it still went off the air.
Who remembers when we only had one HBO, and it didn't start until like 4 in the afternoon and shut off just after midnight?
It was the 70's when it still went off the air.
Who remembers when we only had one HBO, and it didn't start until like 4 in the afternoon and shut off just after midnight?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 9:05 am to BabyTac
After watching “Saturday Night Live” in the fall of 1979 I was spooking a young lady in Central Mississippi and we’d leave the TV on as we were otherwise engaged. “Dance Fever” would follow SNL, then this message would finally play-
WLBT-TV Tall Tower Television Channel Three in Jackson, Mississippi has concluded its broadcast day.
Thank you for watching.
Good night
Video of the flag with the “Star-Spangled Banner” playing.
Then dead air and my time to shine.
WLBT-TV Tall Tower Television Channel Three in Jackson, Mississippi has concluded its broadcast day.
Thank you for watching.
Good night
Video of the flag with the “Star-Spangled Banner” playing.
Then dead air and my time to shine.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 9:06 am
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:23 am to Hangover Haven
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Who remembers when we only had one HBO, and it didn't start until like 4 in the afternoon and shut off just after midnight?
Remember those big-arse Cox cable boxes? Like the size of a VCR with a dial knob in the center that went from like 1 to 50.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:47 am to Jim Rockford
"this has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.... If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been directed .."
Posted on 4/27/26 at 11:57 am to gumbo2176
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Yep, and we could watch 4 local channels---WWL, WDSU, WVUE and WYES and there were no "Clickers' to change them remotely.
No channel 26 WGNO bro?
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:05 pm to BabyTac
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Remember when TV would go off the air?
I do!
I was 13-years-old in 1989 when the end of a broadcast day on WVLA-33 out of Baton Rouge would close with "The Morton Downey, Jr. Show." After his credits rolled, we got Larry Stockstill, a local preacher with his "Life Line" segment. From there, it was the national anthem played over a patriotic montage followed by white noise until some time the next morning.
I always thought I was a real bad-arse any time I stayed awake late enough to see all this.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:25 pm to BasilFawlty
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Remember those big-arse Cox cable boxes? Like the size of a VCR with a dial knob in the center that went from like 1 to 50.
Before cable ready tuners, some cable systems provided a box to tune channels 14 and up since they do not match the TV channels. This was one of the early ones.
Legend has it, you could jam two or three buttons in a certain combination and the scrambled channels would become viewable.
Before digital tuners became standard, some TVs and VCRs had blank channels that had to be manually tuned with switches and knobs for the TV or the VCR to tune.
Some early systems had as many as 36 channels. Once cable ready tuners came out, you could have theoretically 125 analog cable channels, but not many systems invested in having lines that could support all that bandwidth. By the time most systems installed equipment to distribute that much bandwidth by going Fiber to a node, analog cable was transitioning to digital cable and scrambled channels were a thing of the past.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:30 pm to Hangover Haven
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No channel 26 WGNO bro?
Nope, not when I was a kid in the 50's. There were only 4 channels.
WGNO started airing in 67 or so.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:39 pm to gumbo2176
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Nope, not when I was a kid in the 50's. There were only 4 channels.
Well, do you remember when WVUE was channel 12 and WYES was channel 8, and they switched? 1970. I was 6, and I remember when they made the change... Weird how I remember that...
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:39 pm to gumbo2176
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there were no "Clickers' to change them remotely
I WAS the clicker at my house. "Change the channel, boy so we can watch the Braves."
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:52 pm to BasilFawlty
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I WAS the clicker at my house. "Change the channel, boy so we can watch the Braves."
Same here, plus the rabbit ear antenna adjuster, horizontal and vertical hold technician and volume control. Also, the fine-tuning quick thump to the top of the TV housing to complete some adjustments.
Just happy the antenna was not located on the roof.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:01 pm to Hangover Haven
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Well, do you remember when WVUE was channel 12 and WYES was channel 8, and they switched? 1970. I was 6, and I remember when they made the change...
I had graduated high school in 70 at age 17 and left home to live and work in Jackson, Ms.
Really didn't pay much mind to who's broadcasting what on TV stations back then.
Posted on 4/27/26 at 4:20 pm to Cheese Grits
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Remember the morning farm report?
Orion Samuelson just died in March at 91 years old. Farm Report is still on RFD
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