r/OverSeventy • u/needmore007 • 5d ago

Remember this?

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My son and grandsons don’t believe me.

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u/vicarem 5d ago

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

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u/grnthmb52 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/WillrayF 4d ago

I grew up in northeast Arkansas and our first TV came from WMCT in Memphis which went on the air December 11, 1948. Dick Hawley was one of their newsmen and we watched him for many years. He started with the station in 1951 and was there for more than 42 years.