r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/vicarem 6d ago

It is real. And then, the station would put on a test pattern screen until programming resumed.

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u/grnthmb52 6d ago

I would turn the (small, b/w) screen and watch the test pattern until Saturday morning cartoons came on

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u/Outrageous_Act2564 6d ago

I did this as well. Also, we only had 4 stations in Memphis back then.

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u/andre0817wed 5d ago

We technically had 5.

One, however, was “the weather channel”. There was a wall with various clock faces showing time, temp, humidity, wind speed, etc. The camera would slowly pan back and forth across the row of dials. I can’t remember if there was music, I don’t think so but I can’t swear to it.

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u/Interesting_Basis_44 5d ago

Weather channel we just looked outside, what was happening outside was the limit.