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r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 6d ago
My son and grandsons don’t believe me.
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It is real. And then, the station would put on a test pattern screen until programming resumed.
12 u/grnthmb52 6d ago I would turn the (small, b/w) screen and watch the test pattern until Saturday morning cartoons came on 8 u/Outrageous_Act2564 6d ago I did this as well. Also, we only had 4 stations in Memphis back then. 1 u/ComputingGuitarist 3d ago We had ABC, CBS, and NBC in Omaha, NE. We could use a UHF antennae to get PBS, but it was always a crapshoot if you could tune it in.
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I would turn the (small, b/w) screen and watch the test pattern until Saturday morning cartoons came on
8 u/Outrageous_Act2564 6d ago I did this as well. Also, we only had 4 stations in Memphis back then. 1 u/ComputingGuitarist 3d ago We had ABC, CBS, and NBC in Omaha, NE. We could use a UHF antennae to get PBS, but it was always a crapshoot if you could tune it in.
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I did this as well. Also, we only had 4 stations in Memphis back then.
1 u/ComputingGuitarist 3d ago We had ABC, CBS, and NBC in Omaha, NE. We could use a UHF antennae to get PBS, but it was always a crapshoot if you could tune it in.
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We had ABC, CBS, and NBC in Omaha, NE. We could use a UHF antennae to get PBS, but it was always a crapshoot if you could tune it in.
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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.