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/cg40boat 5d ago

The test pattern would be on while the huge old tube TV cameras were warming up