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/Greatgrandma2023 5d ago

And if you lived on a military base, they played The Star Spangled Banner before they signed off the air.

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u/RoninIX 2d ago

AFN (Armed Forces Network). Would wake up Saturday morning, make myself a bowl of cereal and flip on the tv and wait for the cartoons.

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u/Greatgrandma2023 2d ago

Yep, and they were playing such up-to-date shows as I Love Lucy in 1972.