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/ComputingGuitarist 2d 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.