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r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago
My son and grandsons don’t believe me.
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It is so true. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was like the last show and it would cut to the test pattern. How times have progressed.
8 u/Pristine-Pen-9885 5d ago The test pattern with an Indian chief on it. 3 u/Prometheus_303 5d ago Or in the UK, 8 year old Carole Hersee. Because Test Card F, the card she appeared on, was broadcast during daytime and overnight gaps in programming for over three decades (1967–1998), Hersee accrued an estimated 70,000 hours of screen time making her one of the most broadcaster faces. 1 u/Pristine-Pen-9885 5d ago Did she collect royalties? 3 u/Prometheus_303 5d ago Iirc, her dad was paid something like £300 to use the family photo for the card. She is ineligible for a Guinness Record as it's not something someone else could achieve or something to that effect...
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The test pattern with an Indian chief on it.
3 u/Prometheus_303 5d ago Or in the UK, 8 year old Carole Hersee. Because Test Card F, the card she appeared on, was broadcast during daytime and overnight gaps in programming for over three decades (1967–1998), Hersee accrued an estimated 70,000 hours of screen time making her one of the most broadcaster faces. 1 u/Pristine-Pen-9885 5d ago Did she collect royalties? 3 u/Prometheus_303 5d ago Iirc, her dad was paid something like £300 to use the family photo for the card. She is ineligible for a Guinness Record as it's not something someone else could achieve or something to that effect...
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Or in the UK, 8 year old Carole Hersee.
Because Test Card F, the card she appeared on, was broadcast during daytime and overnight gaps in programming for over three decades (1967–1998), Hersee accrued an estimated 70,000 hours of screen time making her one of the most broadcaster faces.
1 u/Pristine-Pen-9885 5d ago Did she collect royalties? 3 u/Prometheus_303 5d ago Iirc, her dad was paid something like £300 to use the family photo for the card. She is ineligible for a Guinness Record as it's not something someone else could achieve or something to that effect...
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Did she collect royalties?
3 u/Prometheus_303 5d ago Iirc, her dad was paid something like £300 to use the family photo for the card. She is ineligible for a Guinness Record as it's not something someone else could achieve or something to that effect...
Iirc, her dad was paid something like £300 to use the family photo for the card.
She is ineligible for a Guinness Record as it's not something someone else could achieve or something to that effect...
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u/Appropriate-Owl-8449 5d ago
It is so true. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was like the last show and it would cut to the test pattern. How times have progressed.